18.  What then did this great soul, worthy offspring of the greatest, and what was the medicine for her disorder, for we have now come to the great secret?  Despairing of all other aid, she betook herself to the Physician of all, and awaiting the silent hours of night, during a slight intermission of the disease, she approached the altar with faith, and, calling upon Him Who is honoured thereon, with a mighty cry, and every kind of invocation, calling to mind all His former works of power, and well she knew those both of ancient and of later days, at last she ventured on an act of pious and splendid effrontery:  she imitated the woman whose fountain of blood was dried up by the hem of Christ’s garment.15    S. Matt. ix. 20.  What did she do?  Resting her head with another cry upon the altar, and with a wealth of tears, as she who once bedewed the feet of Christ,16    S. Luke vii. 38. and declaring that she would not loose her hold until she was made whole, she then applied her medicine to her whole body, viz., such a portion of the antitypes17    Antitypes, i.e. the reserved Sacrament. of the Precious Body and Blood as she treasured in her hand, mingling therewith her tears, and, O the wonder, she went away feeling at once that she was saved, and with the lightness of health in body, soul, and mind, having received, as the reward of her hope, that which she hoped for, and having gained bodily by means of spiritual strength.  Great though these things be, they are not untrue.  Believe them all of you, whether sick or sound, that ye may either keep or regain your health.  And that my story is no mere boastfulness is plain from the silence in which she kept, while alive, what I have revealed.  Nor should I now have published it, be well assured, had I not feared that so great a marvel would have been utterly hidden from the faithful and unbelieving of these and later days.

ΙΗʹ. Τί οὖν ἡ μεγάλη καὶ τῶν μεγίστων ἀξία ψυχὴ, καὶ τίς ἡ ἰατρεία τοῦ πάθους; Ἐνταῦθα γὰρ ἤδη καὶ τὸ ἀπόῤῥητον. Πάντων ἀπογνοῦσα τῶν ἄλλων, ἐπὶ τὸν πάντων ἰατρὸν καταφεύγει, καὶ νυκτὸς ἀωρίαν τηρήσασα, μικρὸν ἐνδούσης αὐτῇ τῆς νόσου, τῷ θυσιαστηρίῳ προσπίπτει μετὰ τῆς πίστεως, καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτῷ τιμώμενον ἀνακαλουμένη μεγάλῃ τῇ βοῇ, καὶ πάσαις ταῖς κλήσεσι, καὶ πασῶν αὐτὸν τῶν πώποτε δυνάμεων ὑπομνήσασα (σοφὴ γὰρ ἐκείνη καὶ τὰ παλαιὰ καὶ τὰ νέα), τέλος εὐσεβῆ τινα καὶ καλὴν ἀναισχυντίαν ἀναισχυντεῖ: μιμεῖται τὴν τοῖς κρασπέδοις Χριστοῦ ξηράνασαν πηγὴν αἵματος. Καὶ τί ποιεῖ; τῷ θυσιαστηρίῳ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἑαυτῆς προσθεῖσα μετὰ τῆς ἴσης βοῆς, καὶ δάκρυσι τοῦτο πλουσίοις, ὥσπερ τις πάλαι τοὺς πόδας Χριστοῦ καταβρέχουσα, καὶ μὴ πρότερον ἀνήσειν ἢ τῆς ὑγιείας τυχεῖν ἀπειλοῦσα: εἶτα τῷ παρ' ἑαυτῆς φαρμάκῳ τούτῳ τὸ σῶμα πᾶν ἐπαλείφουσα, καὶ εἴ πού τι τῶν ἀντιτύπων τοῦ τιμίου σώματος ἢ τοῦ αἵματος ἡ χεὶρ ἐθησαύρισεν, τοῦτο καταμιγνῦσα τοῖς δάκρυσιν, (ὢ τοῦ θαύματος!) ἀπῆλθεν εὐθὺς αἰσθομένη τῆς σωτηρίας, κούφη καὶ σῶμα, καὶ ψυχὴν, καὶ διάνοιαν, μισθὸν ἐλπίδος λαβοῦσα τὸ ἐλπιζόμενον, καὶ τῇ τῆς ψυχῆς εὐρωστίᾳ κομισαμένη τὴν τοῦ σώματος. Ταῦτα μεγάλα μὲν, οὐ ψευδῆ δέ. Τούτοις πιστεύετε ἅπαντες, καὶ νοσοῦντες, καὶ ὑγιαίνοντες: ἵν' οἱ μὲν ἔχητε τὴν ὑγίειαν, οἱ δὲ ἀπολάβητε. Καὶ ὅτι μὴ κόμπος τὸ διήγημα, δῆλον ἐξ ὧν ζώσης κατασιγήσας, νῦν ἐξεκάλυψα: καὶ οὐδ' ἂν νῦν ἐδημοσίευσα, εὖ ἴστε, εἰ μή τις ἔσχε με φόβος θαῦμα τοσοῦτον κατακρύψαι καὶ πιστοῖς καὶ ἀπίστοις, καὶ τοῖς νῦν καὶ τοῖς ὕστερον.