nd
Gervasius revealed themselves to God's priest. They lay in the
Basilica, where, at present, are the bodies of the martyrs Nabor
and Felix; while, however, the holy martyrs Nabor and Felix had
crowds to visit them, as well the names as the graves of the
martyrs Protasius and Gervasius were unknown; so that all who
wished to come to the rails which protected the graves of the
martyrs Nabor and Felix, were used to walk on the graves of the
others. But when the bodies of the holy martyrs were raised and
placed on litters, thereupon many possessions of the devil were
detected. Moreover, a blind man, by name Severus, who up to this
day performs religious service in the Basilica called Ambrosian,
into which the bodies of the martyrs have been translated, when he
had touched the garment of the martyrs, forthwith received sight.
Moreover, bodies possessed by unclean spirits were restored, and
with all blessedness returned home. And by means of these benefits
of the martyrs, while the faith of the Catholic Church made
increase, by so much did Arian misbelief decline."--Sec. 14.

4.

Now I want to know what reason is there for stumbling at the above
narrative, which will not throw uncertainty upon the very fact that
there was such a Bishop as Ambrose, or such an Empress as Justina, or
such a heresy as the Arian, or any Church at all in Milan. Let us
consider some of the circumstances under which it comes to us.

1. We have the concordant evidence of three distinct witnesses, of whom
at least two were on the spot when the alleged miracles were wrought,
one writing at the time, another some years afterwards in a distant
country. And the third, writing after an interval of twenty-six years,
agrees minutely with the evidence of the two former, not adding to the
miraculous narrative, as is the manner of those who lose their delicate
care for exactness in their admiration of the things and persons of whom
they speak.

2. The miracle was wrought in public, on a person well known, on one who
continued to live in the place where it was professedly wrought, and
who, by devoting himself to the service of the martyrs who were the
instruments of his cure, was a continual memorial of the mercy which he
professed to have received, and challenged inquiry into it, and
refutation if that were possible.

3. Ambrose, one of our informants, publicly appeale