icon of St. George."

"St. Cyrus and St. John appeared to a person suffering
from gout, and bade him take a little oil in a small
ampulla from the lamp that burnt before the image of
the Saviour, in the great tetrapyle at Alexandria, and
anoint his feet with it."

"Similar stories are found in Western writers. Thus
Nicetius of Lyons, by means of the oil of the lamp
which burnt daily at his sepulchre, restored sight to
the blind, drove demons from bodies possessed, restored
soundness to shrunken limbs," etc.

"An epileptic was cured by oil from the lamp that burnt
night and day at the tomb of St. Severin."

"It was revealed to a blind woman, that oil from the
lamp of St. Genevieve would restore her sight, if the
warden of the church were to anoint her with it. A week
after she brought a blind man, who was healed in the
same manner."[26]

At the time of Gregory of Tours, application was made of sainted
reliquaries as a remedy against the devil and his demons. Gregory
narrates the miraculous efficacy of a small pellet of wax, taken from
the tomb of St. Martin, in extinguishing an incendiary fire started by
his Satanic majesty, which was instigated by malicious envy, because
this omnipotent talisman was in the custody of an ecclesiastic! This
Turonese bishop records many instances of cures being effected at
Martin's tomb. He himself was relieved of severe pains in the head by
touching the disordered spot with the sombre pall of St. Martin's
sepulchre. This remedy was applied on three different occasions with
equal success. Once he was cured of an attack of mortal dysentery by
simply dissolving into a glass of water a pinch of dust scraped from
the tomb of St. Martin and drinking the strange concoction. At another
time, his tongue having become swollen and tumefied, it was restored
to its natural size and condition by licking the railing of the tomb
of this saint. He knew of others who had been equally successful. An
archdeacon, named Leonastes had sight restored to his blind eyes at
the tomb of St. Martin, but unfortunately the fact that he later
applied to an Israelitish physician caused his infirmity to return.
Even a toothache was cured by St. Martin's relics.

The following is an apostrophe to the relics of St. Martin by Bishop
Gregory: "Oh ineffable theriac! ineffable pigment! admirable antidote!
celestial purge! superior to all drugs of the faculty! sweeter th