I have seen many things concerning the subsequent history of this
lance. Longinus, after his conversion, left the army, and joined the
disciples. He and two other soldiers, who were converted at the foot of
the cross, were among the first baptised after Pentecost.

I saw Longinus and these two men, clothed in long white garments,
return to their native land. They lived there in the country, in a
barren and marshy locality. Here it was that the forty martyrs died.
Longinus was not a priest, but a deacon, and travelled here and there
in that capacity, preaching the name of Christ, and giving, as an
eye-witness, a history of his Passion and Resurrection. He converted a
large number of persons, and cured many of the sick, by allowing them
to touch a piece of the sacred lance which he carried with him. The
Jews were much enraged at him and his two companions because they made
known in all parts the truth of the Resurrection of Jesus, and the
cruelty and deceits of his enemies. At their instigation, some Roman
soldiers were dispatched to Longinus's country to take and judge him on
the plea of his having left the army without leave, and being a
disturber of public peace. He was engaged in cultivating his field when
they arrived, and he took them to his house, and offered them
hospitality. They did not know him, and when they had acquainted him
with the object of their journey, he quietly called his two companions
who were living in a sort of hermitage at no great distance off, and
told the soldiers that they and himself were the men for whom they were
seeking. The same thing happened to the holy gardener, Phocas. The
soldiers were really distressed, for they had conceived a great
friendship for him. I saw him led with his two companions to a small
neighbouring town, where they were questioned. They were not put in
prison, but permitted to go whither they pleased, as prisoners on their
word, and only made to wear a distinctive park on the shoulder. Later,
they were all three beheaded on a hill, situated between the little
town and Longinus's house, and there buried. The soldiers put the head of
Longinus at the end of a spear, and carried it to Jerusalem, as a proof
that they had fulfilled their commission. I think I remember that this
took place a very few years after the death of our Lord.

Afterwards I had a vision of things happening at a later period. A
blind countrywoman of St. Longinus went with her son on a pilgrimage to