And Whilst They Were Thus Engaged In Prayer
It Was Revealed In A Vision By A Holy Angel Of Heaven
To a certain Bishop
who was a very good Christian, that he should desire a certain Christian
Cobler,[NOTE 1]
Who had but one eye, to pray to God; and that God in His
goodness would grant such prayer because of the Cobler's holy life.
Now I must tell you what manner of man this Cobler was. He was one who led
a life of great uprightness and chastity, and who fasted and kept from all
sin, and went daily to church to hear Mass, and gave daily a portion of
his gains to God. And the way how he came to have but one eye was this. It
happened one day that a certain woman came to him to have a pair of shoes
made, and she showed him her foot that he might take her measure. Now she
had a very beautiful foot and leg; and the Cobler in taking her measure
was conscious of sinful thoughts. And he had often heard it said in the
Holy Evangel, that if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from
thee, rather than sin. So, as soon as the woman had departed, he took the
awl that he used in stitching, and drove it into his eye and destroyed it.
And this is the way he came to lose his eye. So you can judge what a holy,
just, and righteous man he was.
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