Letter 8024: Your kindness transcends the ordinary measure of human generosity.

Your kindness, placed above mortal men, preserves its custom. Truly the care of the most holy one is medicine: for a venerable conscience always presents to God what it seeks. After your departure, a fiercer heat consumed me, and with the devil driving me headlong into every despair, the sails were spread. A physician came to me and said he had nothing he could do. From this my hope grew greater, since human aid had ceased. Immediately I turned with tears to the aid of the heavenly physician and armed my entire body — which was already being prepared for the tomb — against the fevers with the oil of Lord Victor. My God knows that the commander of his great soldier was present at once, and what I asked through his worthy witness I obtained without delay. Immediately that fever, the procurer of eternal cold, cooled, and at the ninth hour, as we read, at the command of my Christ, it departed. I know the hours of your prayer, I know that the abundance of your tears helped the struggling one at that very moment as well. Behold, I have not kept silent about these welcome signs: but the scarcity of bearers has suspended our shared desire. For your relief greatly aids me, although it is hardly desired by you, who have spurned joyful things.

XXIIII. ENNODIVS FAVSTO. Vsum suum benignitas uestra supra homines locata custodit. uere medicina est cura sanctissimi: nam uenerabilis conscientia deo semper insinuat quod requirit. digressis uobis acrior me calor exussit et ad omnem desperationem praecipitante diabolo 6 2 caleeti L curratio B 8 mox om. T me om. Sirm. 5 prosequi mi B XXIII. 10 heleutheriuB B a] ad B dno T 11 sasciol perat B 12 commendatitiae B, commendatias L sperauit] r* impetrauit Pb 13 subpeterea B iuberetur B 14 ne L 15 porrigatee B 16 pxaeiuditio B 17 mulitur B XXILIL 19 fausto ex floro V m. 1 21 scanctissimi B 22 requiret B 23 callor B exussit| (ussit in ras.) B et om. B homnem B dieperationem B praecipitanti (alt . i in ras.) B diabulo B uela patuerunt. uenit ad me medicus et dixit se quod faceret non habere. hinc mihi maior spes, quando homo cessauerit. continuo me cum lacrimis ad caelestis medici auxilia conuerti et domni Victoria oleo totum corpus, quod iam sepulcro parabatur, contra febres armaui. scit deus meus, mox adfuit magni militis imperator, et quod per testem eius idoneum poposci incunctanter obtinui. mox feruor ille aeterni frigoris procurator intepuit et hora nona, sicut legitur, Christo meo mandante discessit. scio orationis uestrae tempora, scio lacrimarum copiam in illo quoque momento iuuisse laborantem. ecce indicia uotiua non tacui: sed portitorum raritas desiderium commune suspendit. nam me multum iuuat releuatio uestra, quamuis a uobis minime, qui laeta respuistis, optetur.