7. Was it then only earth and heaven, and did not air likewise give a sign on that occasion, and was hallowed with the badges of the Passion? Let those who were spectators and partakers of that prodigy exhibit their garments, which to the present time are stamped with the brandmarks of the Cross! For at the very moment that anyone, either of our own brethren or of the outsiders, was telling the event or hearing it told by others, he beheld the miracle happening in his own case or to his neighbour, being all spotted with stars, or beholding the other so marked upon his clothes in a manner more variegated than could be done by any artificial work of the loom or elaborate painting. What is the result of this? Such great consternation at the spectacle that nearly all, as by one signal and with one voice, invoked the God of the Christians, and propitiated Him with many praises and supplications: whilst many, without further delay, but at the moment of the occurrence, ran up to our priests, and besought them earnestly that they might be made members of the Church, being sanctified by the holy baptism, for they had been saved by means of their fright.

Ζʹ. Ἆρ' οὖν γῆ μὲν οὕτω καὶ οὐρανός: ἀὴρ δὲ οὐκ ἐπισημαίνει τοῖς τοιούτοις καιροῖς, οὐδὲ ἡγιάσθη τότε τοῖς σημείοις τοῦ πάθους; Ἐπιδειξάτωσαν ἔτι καὶ νῦν τὰς ἐσθῆτας, οἱ τοῦ θαύματος ἐκείνου θεαταὶ καὶ μύσται, τὰς τότε κατασημανθείσας τοῖς τοῦ σταυροῦ στίγμασιν. Ὁμοῦ τε γὰρ ταῦτα διηγεῖτό τις, εἴτ' οὖν τῶν ἡμετέρων, εἴτ' οὖν τῶν ἔξωθεν, ἢ διηγουμένων ἤκουε, καὶ τὸ θαῦμα ἑώρα παρ' ἑαυτῷ, ἢ τῷ πλησίον γινόμενον, κατάστερος ὢν, ἢ ἐκεῖνον ὁρῶν τοιοῦτον ἐν τοῖς ἐσθήμασι, πάσης ἱστουργικῆς ψηφῖδος ἢ περιέργου ζωγραφίας ποικιλώτερον. Ἐκ τούτου τί γίνεται; Τοσαύτη τῶν ὁρωμένων κατάπληξις, ὡς μικροῦ μὲν ἅπαντας ὥσπερ ἐξ ἑνὸς συνθήματος καὶ μιᾶς φωνῆς τὸν τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἀνακαλεῖσθαι Θεὸν, εὐφημίαις τε πολλαῖς καὶ ἱκεσίαις αὐτὸν ἐξιλάσκεσθαι: πολλοὺς δὲ οὐκ εἰς ἀναβολὰς, ἀλλὰ παρ' αὐτὰ τῶν συμβάντων προσδραμόντας τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν ἡμῶν, καὶ πολλὰ καταδεηθέντας τῆς τε Ἐκκλησίας γενέσθαι μέρος, καὶ μυηθῆναι τὰ τελεώτερα, τῷ ἱερῷ καθαγνισθέντας βαπτίσματι, καὶ διὰ τὸν φόβον ὠφεληθέντας.