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6 A.D. 30-597.
no success. Then spiritual aid was sought from the
Bishops of Gaul, and in 429 German us, Bishop of
Auxerre, as the Pope's legate, and Lupus of Troyes
arrived in Britain on this special embassy. The
great Apostle < f I d. St. Pat was in th
y, and, says a modern hist i he was not
the last to wh tl f the mission should
b bed Wl G had ;hed a
town, he was wont to ask his companions w^hat
means were to be employed to make his sermon
fruitful, and Patrick would give the characteristic
reply: " Let us observe a strict fast for three days
at the city gate, and leave the rest in God's hand ".
They preached not only in towns, but in the open
country, where the people flocked to hear them. The
impulses of faith are ever the same. A blind girl of
ten was brought by her parents to Germanus in order
that he might cure her. After fervent prayer the
bishop laid some relics, which he wore, upon her eyes,
and she saw. Germanus was recalled to Britain in
448 for the same reason, and again he brought peace
and a superabundance of interior life. Another
miracle is recorded of him by Bede, in which he restored
the use of his limbs to one doomed in the
flower of his years to a hopeless infirmity.
Britain was not contented with merely receiving
spiritual favours from Gaul. When Saxon cruelty
Bellesheim, Geschichte der Katholischen Kirche in Irland, vol. i.
p. 32.
- Hist. Eccles., lib. i. caps, xviii. and xxi.