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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>In the same city of Carthage lived Innocentia, a very\r\ndevout woman of the highest rank in the state. She had\r\ncancer in one of her breasts, a disease which, as physicians\r\nsay, is incurable. Ordinarily, therefore, they either amputate,\r\nand so separate from the body the member on which the disease\r\nhas seized, or, that the patient's life may be prolonged a little,\r\nthough death is inevitable even if somewhat delayed, they\r\nabandon all remedies, following, as they say, the advice of\r\nHippocrates. This the lady we speak of had been advised to\r\nby a skilful physician, who was intimate with her family; and\r\nshe betook herself to God alone by prayer. On the approach<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_489\">[Pg 489]</a></span>\r\nof Easter, she was instructed in a dream to wait for the first\r\nwoman that came out from the baptistery<a id=\"FNanchor_976_976\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_976_976\">[976]</a> after being baptized,\r\nand to ask her to make the sign of Christ upon her sore. She\r\ndid so, and was immediately cured. The physician who had\r\nadvised her to apply no remedy if she wished to live a little\r\nlonger, when he had examined her after this, and found that\r\nshe who, on his former examination, was afflicted with that\r\ndisease was now perfectly cured, eagerly asked her what\r\nremedy she had used, anxious, as we may well believe, to discover\r\nthe drug which should defeat the decision of Hippocrates.\r\nBut when she told him what had happened, he is said to have\r\nreplied, with religious politeness, though with a contemptuous\r\ntone, and an expression which made her fear he would utter\r\nsome blasphemy against Christ, \"I thought you would make\r\nsome great discovery to me.\" She, shuddering at his indifference,\r\nquickly replied, \"What great thing was it for Christ to\r\nheal a cancer, who raised one who had been four days dead?\"\r\nWhen, therefore, I had heard this, I was extremely indignant\r\nthat so great a miracle, wrought in that well-known city, and\r\non a person who was certainly not obscure, should not be\r\ndivulged, and I considered that she should be spoken to, if\r\nnot reprimanded on this score. And when she replied to me\r\nthat she had not kept silence on the subject, I asked the\r\nwomen with whom she was best acquainted whether they had\r\never heard of this before. They told me they knew nothing\r\nof it. \"See,\" I said, \"what your not keeping silence amounts\r\nto, since not even those who are so familiar with you know of it.\"\r\nAnd as I had only briefly heard the story, I made her tell\r\nhow the whole thing happened, from beginning to end, while\r\nthe other women listened in great astonishment, and glorified\r\nGod.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-763"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"261128adfc42481414e0eea2d2687d0a572b4cbea441c39f1967317ec518ebb7","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_976_976","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_976_976","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_976_976\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_976_976\"><span class=\"label\">[976]</span></a> Easter and Whitsuntide were the common seasons for administering baptism,\r\nthough no rule was laid down till towards the end of the sixth century. Tertullian\r\nthinks these the most appropriate times, but says that every time is\r\nsuitable. See Tertull. <i>de Baptismo</i>, c. 19.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_976_976","text_sha256":"14d3a6f50cb631a4c64acabce95c45a9f535cbbd6557c65e727127882083e738","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_976_976