If this grace be granted he shall visit your holy
sepulchre and render humble thanks to God and you for
the favor.' No sooner had Syward spoken these words,
than the child began to move his head and right arm a
little, and forthwith life and vigor came back again
into every part of his body. The Crowners, and many
others who were standing by, saw the miracle, and in
that very place, with great admiration, returned humble
thanks to God and St. Thomas for what they had seen. The
mother, now overjoyed, took the child in her arms, and
went that day to hear mass in a church not far off,
where, upon her knees, she recognized with a grateful
heart that she owed the life of her infant to God and
St. Thomas. Her devotion ended, she returned home, and
the child, feeling no pain at all, walked as he was wont
to do up and down the house, though a little scar still
continued in one cheek, which after a few days, quite
vanished away."[66]

St. Catharine of Siena (1347-1380) obtained considerable reputation as
a healer, principally, however, in the line of exorcism; this, though,
meant the cure of any disease. Like St. Paul, she was one of a large
number of saints who healed others but did not cure herself; she died
at the age of thirty-three. A woman was presented to the immaculate
saintess for prompt remedy; by the virtue of divine magic a demon was
forced from each part of her body where he had taken refuge, but
resisting absolute ejectment from this carnal abode, made a desperate
conflict in the throat, where by uninterrupted scratches he reproduced
himself in the form of an abscess.

On another occasion the saint was more successful. Laurentia, a maiden
of youthful years, placed by her father within the sheltering walls of
a cloister, to assume ultimately monastic vows, was quickly captured
by an errant demon. As an irrefutable demonstration of the impure
origin of her infirmity, an annalist asserts, this spirit promptly
answered in elegant Latinity all questions propounded; but the
strongest confirmation of this belief was the miraculous ability which
enabled her to disclose the most secret thoughts of others, and
divulge the mysterious affairs of her associates. St. Catharine at
length liberated the suffering female from her diabolical tenant. More
extraordinary claims are made for her. It is said that she stayed a
plague at Varazze, and healed a throng at Pisa.[67]

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