eath more than
one hundred slain infants by the efficacy of a cross.

Even such a serious disorder as leprosy was said to have been healed
by saintly care. St. Martin, who gave special attention to sufferers
with this disease, cured a leper by kissing him, we are told. Toward
the middle of the sixth century, St. Radegonde displayed her faith by
first washing the repulsive sores and afterward applying her pure lips
to them. On one occasion an insolent leper asserted that unless his
putrefying limbs were kissed by this candidate for canonical honors he
could not be cured.[61]

Bede (673-735), the great English historian, in his careful way tells
us of cures performed by St. John of Beverly during the first part of
the eighth century. According to this record, St. John cured a dumb
youth, who had never spoken a word, by the sign of the cross on his
tongue, and he afterward had "ready utterance." He used holy water on
a woman so that, like Peter's wife's mother, she arose and ministered
to them, healed a friend who was injured by being thrown from a horse,
cured a nun of a grievous complaint, and restored a servant, an
account of which I shall give in Bede's words:

"The bishop went in and saw him in a dying condition,
and the coffin by his side, whilst all present were in
tears. He said a prayer, blessed him, and on going out,
as is the usual expression of comforters, said, 'May you
soon recover.' Afterwards when they were sitting at
table, the lad sent to his lord, to desire he would let
him have a cup of wine, because he was thirsty. The
earl, rejoicing that he could drink, sent him a cup of
wine, blessed by the bishop; which, as soon as he had
drunk, he immediately got up, and shaking off his late
infirmity, dressed himself, and going in to the bishop,
saluted him and the other guests, saying, 'He would also
eat and be merry with them.' They ordered him to sit
down with them at the entertainment, rejoicing at his
recovery. He sat down, ate and drank merrily, and
behaved himself like the rest of the company; and living
many years after, continued in the same state of
health."[62]

Skipping a few centuries, we find that Bernard of Clairvaux
(1091-1153), the most prominent figure of the twelfth century,
performed an abundance of cures, as his biographers testify. "The
cures were so many that the witnesses themselves were unable to detail
them all. At Doningen, near Rheinfeld, whe