ON SAINT DROGO THE RECLUSE,
AT SEBOURG IN HAINAUT.
IN THE YEAR 1186
PrefaceDrogo, recluse of Sebourg in Hainaut (St.)
BY D. P.
Baldwin, surnamed the Great-Souled, Count of Flanders and Hainaut, in the first year of his rule, which was the year of Christ 1171, gave to his brother Henry the lordship of the town of Sebourg and of the lands depending upon it; In the town of Sebourg of wide dominion so ample and honorable that when Philip son of Henry afterward died without male offspring leaving four daughters, the lordship of Sebourg, divided among them, sufficed for each one's part as a suitable dowry for very honorable marriages, as Friar Jacques de Guise the Minorite, an ancient writer, attests in book 18 chapter 2 of the Annals of Hainaut, ending his history in the year 1244; which, rendered into French and printed at Paris in the year 1531, we possess; but Wadding, in his book on the writers of the Minorite Order, asserts that it exists in manuscript in three volumes in the convent of the Friars Minor at Mons in Hainaut; where, seeking it, we indeed found it, but in French, although the author seems to have written in Latin.
[2] In the same Sebourg, and in the same time of Baldwin, there lived as a recluse St. Drogo. Acts of the deceased Saint written around the year 1310. In what year he died, the Life does not explain, which is read there in the church and in a certain manuscript Codex of ours, compiled not long after the death of Count John, which took place in the year 1304, and while Charles the Fair was reigning in France, and hence before the year 1328. This Life, as the aforesaid Guise found it at Sebourg, so he transcribed word for word in his Annals, and so it is now read in the French translation in book 18 chapter 23 and the nine following; and that among the deeds of the year 1286, which was the 16th year of Baldwin, when Easter fell on the 14th of April. the name not long before inserted in the sacred calendars: Hence it would follow that St. Drogo, (if he truly died in that year, as more recent authors have gathered from Guise) departed from the living on Tuesday of Easter; for he died on the 16th of April, as the tablet hanging at his altar has, according to Molanus; who thence in his additions to Usuard wrote thus: The town of Sebourg, near Valenciennes, of St. Drogo Confessor, who in a wondrous manner when invoked helps those afflicted with stones and ruptures. His Acts are extant. Galesinius, following Molanus, says: In Belgium, of St. Brogo (he meant to write Drogo) Confessor, famous for miracles. Baronius, from both, composed these in his revision of the Roman Martyrology: In Belgium near Valenciennes, of St. Drogo Confessor.
[3] The great fame of miracles summoned a multitude of pilgrims; these gathered a great treasure of votive donations: which Ferdinand, Count of Hainaut and Flanders, entangled in the French war, drew to himself around the year 1214 under the pretext of soliciting canonization, cult celebrated in the 13th century. and soon suffered the deserved penalties for the deed, captured in the battle of Bouvines, and not released until 1227. In the same year, from Binche (for in the absence of the Count the rectors of Hainaut had decided that the body should be transferred) after a nine-year stay there, the body is said to have been brought back, writes the author of the more recent French Life, perhaps thinking it fair that it should be Ferdinand's first care after regaining liberty to appease St. Drogo, violated by so enormous a sacrilege. and again after the body was brought back from Binche. How little probable this is we shall soon see: meanwhile this is certain, that in the month of June the body was brought back: which reason Molanus in his Natales Belgii on the 14th of June suspects to be why some have transferred his death to that day, which truly was the day of the translation; our ancestors preferring that day for celebrating the Saint's feast, on account of the impediments of Lent and Easter.
[4] But the cult of the 16th day, although not so celebrated, persists at Sebourg, according to the more recent Life, to this day; on the 14th of June, however, no special honor is now paid there. it is now observed on the feria of Pentecost. For now, says the same Molanus, his feast is celebrated on Tuesday of Pentecost by the clergy of Valenciennes and through the octave. Every week on Tuesday and nearly daily, for the devotion of pilgrims, Mass is offered in honor of St. Drogo; and in the Collect God is invoked, that through the intercession of St. Drogo his friend we may be freed from infirmities of mind and body, and enjoy eternal joys. As for Espinoy, the birthplace of the holy man, in Latin it is Spinetum, a famous village adorned with the title of Principality, having a chapel dedicated in honor of Saints Drogo and Peter of Luxembourg, and that built upon the soil which is said to have been hereditary to the same Drogo, and in which, when his mother's womb was cut open, he was brought forth into the light; where his feast is celebrated on the 2nd of July, either because the chapel was then dedicated, or for some other reason.
[5] From these things is not only confirmed the conjecture that St. Drogo died on some Tuesday, which in the year marked falls on the 16th of April: but also that the translation, or more truly the bringing back of the body to Sebourg, was made in one of those years which conjointly brought the Tuesday of Pentecost and the 14th of June: and such a one in the whole 13th century was none, except 1272, which had Easter on the 24th of April. And indeed the only miracles narrated after the bringing back of the body, since they were done after the year 1300, do not compel us to place that bringing back so much earlier, as does the more recent author, He lived about 80 years. of the Order of the Friars Minor Recollect of the Province of St. Andrew, in the Life printed at Douai in the year 1634. The same author also seems to have been deceived in this, that he establishes the year in which the Saint was born as 1122; and hence that the same Saint died in his 65th year of age. For manifestly his Acts require a longer life: for he who lived 45 years as a recluse, and before his reclusion went nine times on pilgrimage to Rome, and before undertaking these sacred journeys now a grown man, spent six years as a young man tending flocks at Sebourg; he was at least 18 years old when he left his father's house: or rather, having passed the age of legitimate tutelage and being wholly his own master, so that he could give up his goods; and hence he must have lived at least 78 or even 84 years.
[6] The authors of the history of Valenciennes, Henry and Peter Doutreman, his Relics usually brought to the Valenciennes Procession, after they had explained in part 3 chapter 5 the origin of the yearly procession around the city on the 8th of September, in thanksgiving for that city being freed around the year 1008 from plague, through the Virgin Mother of God, seen to draw a thread around it, which is still preserved: these things explained, I say, they enumerate the bodies of Saints customarily brought from all the surrounding villages to the same supplication; and among these they number the body of St. Drogo, commonly called San Druon. This could augment that pomp more augustly, after on the 2nd of June in the year 1612, John Richardot, Archbishop of Cambrai, solemnly translated the relics of the holy man from the old tomb, in which they had lain for so many years, into a more elegantly ornamented case: which however, when it seemed to correspond less to the growing piety of the people and the multitude of offerings, in this century enclosed in new cases another chest was made, of silver indeed but more to be esteemed for the work and craftsmanship; into which in the year 1628 in the month of June likewise, Francis Vanderburg, successor to the aforementioned Richardot after Buisseret, placed the sacred bones: as the previously cited more recent Life narrates.
[7] And all these things we believe to have been done by right of ancient prescription. For what Molanus in the Natales suspects, that the Body was long ago raised from the earth with the consent of the Apostolic See, in the presence of many Abbots. is made hardly verisimilar by the Acts: in which, although twice in the last chapter mention is made of canonization being treated, nothing is added from which you might understand that anything was ever done before the Pope, much less brought to completion. I would think also that in the previous century, from the fear or insolence of the iconoclasts (Hagiomachorum), the old silver chest without doubt perished, and the bones within the tomb were covered with earth by the faithful, whence Richardot took them up, as Antony Winghe, Abbot of Liessies, wrote to us in his own hand in the year 1636.
signifying how he himself took part in the later Translation made in the year 1628, into a chest wrought partly of silver, partly of gilded bronze, together with the Abbots Peter Le Jeune of Hautmont, Philip Bosquier of Maroilles, Nicholas Samart of Bonne-Espérance, Philip de la Mine of St. John of Valenciennes: whether any particle of the sacred body was given by the Archbishop to any of these, we cannot assert by divining, because Arnold Raissius's Hierogazophylacium Belgicum, in which such things are accurately related, was published in the very year in which the last Translation was made, and indeed three days sooner than it took place, namely on the third of the Ides of June, since the Translation was performed on the Ides themselves: as appears from the testimony of the one who was present and received a portion of the Relics.
[8] I, the undersigned, Priest and Canon of the Metropolitan Church of Cambrai, bear witness Part of the Relics at Cambrai that the part of the skull enclosed in these was taken from the sarcophagus of St. Drogo Confessor, resting at Sebourg in Hainaut, by the Most Illustrious and Most Reverend Lord Francis Vanderburch, Archbishop of Cambrai, while he was solemnly transferring the body of the same Saint from the old Reliquary to the new at Sebourg, on the day after the Ides of June, on the Tuesday of Pentecost, in the year of the Lord 1628. The Most Illustrious Lord Bishop himself gave this particle of the skull, with other small fragments, to me, his Secretary and Chaplain, upon my request: and I gave this same particle of the skull to the Reverend Lord Sporckmans, Canon of the primary collegiate Church of St. Gaugericus at Cambrai, for the sake of his pious affection. Done at Cambrai in the year of the Lord 1654, on the 22nd day of August. thence translated to Boxmeer.
Foulon Priest ✠
[9] He who had requested and obtained the sacred gift from one of us, then his Confessor, arranged to transfer it to Boxmeer to the Chapel of the Counts of Bergh, in this manner: I the undersigned Canon of the primary collegiate Church of St. Gaugericus at Cambrai, bear witness that I received the above-named particle of the skull of St. Drogo from the Reverend Lord Foulon, Canon of the Metropolitan Church of Cambrai, and gave the same, at the request of the Reverend Father Godfrey Henschen of the Society of Jesus, to the Most Illustrious and Excellent Lord Albert Count de Bergh, Marquis de Berghes etc., and entrusted it into the hands of the Most Illustrious and Most Reverend Lord Bishop of Roermond. Done at Antwerp on the 15th of September, 1654.
John Sporckmans. other parts elsewhere.
[10] The Minim Fathers of St. Francis of Paola at Andelecht near Brussels show another part of the same skull of St. Drogo, very beautiful, as Raissius writes in his Hierogazophylacium, page 356; and at the Abbey of St. Lambert in Liessies the same writes on page 281 that some similar relics are preserved, received either in the first Translation under Richardot, certain parts to the village of Gouy in the Luxembourg region. or even earlier on some other occasion. Finally James Bruvenne, Pastor of Gouy in the Duchy of Luxembourg, in the diocese of Liège, in a letter sent to us on the 5th of May 1671, testifying about the Relics of his church, consecrated in honor of St. Albinus Bishop of Angers, says: "Moreover, I attest that in the collateral chapel of the same church an altar has been erected and consecrated in honor of St. Drogo since the year 1667, whose sacred dust or certain Relics, enclosed in an iron case and somewhat adorned, obtained through the intervention of the Reverend Father du Sait of the Society of Jesus, attested by the very Reverend Lord Francis Abbot of St. John of Valenciennes, the Reverend Father Robert of Wavrans Rector of the College of the Society there, and the Reverend Father Francis Flamen Rector of the Luxembourg College, and approved by the Most Reverend Vicar General, which every year on the Tuesday of Pentecost, with the faculty of the aforesaid Most Reverend Vicar, we expose for veneration to the frequent populace. To the help of this Saint pregnant women are wont to have recourse here, and those who suffer from rupture or stone, likewise those who fear plague for their animals, especially for sheep; for he was a shepherd of sheep, and labored with an intolerable rupture." Thus he. Perhaps elsewhere there are also other Relics that have not yet come to our knowledge. But these suffice for the reader to know of the ancient and widely received cult of St. Drogo. Now we pass on to the Acts themselves as they are had in our manuscript, to be compared with the Hainaut Annals of Guise.
LIFE
Compiled around the year 1320 by an Anonymous writer, from our manuscript compared with the Hainaut Annals of Guise.
Drogo, recluse of Sebourg in Hainaut (St.)
BHL Number: 2337
FROM MANUSCRIPTS.
CHAPTER I.
The birth of St. Drogo, and the beginnings of his more austere life at Sebourg.
[1] Those who inquire into the merits and deeds of the Saints, whose death is precious in the sight of the Lord, Brief preface. it is fitting at the outset of the undertaken work to invoke, praise and glorify him who founded all Saints, whose majesty has no beginning nor end forever: who rules and sustains all the regions of the world, pouring forth and dividing the sevenfold gifts of the Spirit to each as he wills.
[2] Therefore in the country which in the common tongue is called Carenibant, there was a village named Espinoy, in which was a man born of noble parentage, In the village of Espinoy endowed with most ample possessions of estates, lands, and woods. This man conceived a son from his wife: but before the time of giving birth came, he entered upon the way of all flesh. When the time of bearing arrived, the mother in labor suffered the dire torments of one giving birth for a long time. who had him cut from the dying mother Then, after counsel was taken, the midwives brought forth the birth through the mother's side: and thus the boy, bereft of both parents, remained alone surviving. When he came to the rudiments of the Christian faith, about to receive the grace of baptism, he was called Drogo from the name.
[3] as an understanding boy, he grieves; In about the tenth year of his age, he learned from the account of his contemporaries that his mother had died in childbirth with him. Having heard these things the boy was dumbfounded, and began to grieve beyond the measure of such a tender age. After many and various torments of this event, having passed a pious adolescence he silently pondered how he might merit pardon for the crime: for inscribing all the blame to himself in his heart, he wept copiously. John 12:26 When he reached the years of puberty, not distrusting the mercy of God, he stored in memory that Gospel saying: "He who loves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my minister also be." John 12:26 He was eagerly frequenting the church; and storing the words of preaching in the armory of his heart. The more his body grew through the increments of nature, the more, to keep himself unspotted, he devoted himself to continual fastings and prayers. After these and similar things for some time, he leaves his homeland, with his body subdued, he distributed to the poor everything he could acquire. In short, the vigorous boy, filled with heavenly goodness, became an imitator of our Patriarch Abraham: for he left his kindred, fields, estates, houses and homeland, keeping only a hair shirt and a simple garment; and undertook a voluntary pilgrimage.
[4] And coming to Sebourg, And when alone he had traversed various regions of the world, he came, the Lord leading him, to a village called Sebourg, which lies in the borders of Hainaut: in this village there was a certain matron, named Elizabeth, surnamed la Haire, kind enough and devoted to God. This faithful matron, though the boy was of noble birth, took him to pasture her herd of cattle, he hires himself to pasture flocks. according to the word of the Psalmist who says, "Because you shall eat the labors of your hands, you are blessed and it shall be well with you." Ps. 127:2 For about six years he remained faithful in the service of the said matron and some others of the village. When he exercised this and similar things humbly and kindly, he found such great favor with them that he was loved by all. Many, seeing his modesty, simplicity, and obedience, gave him many gifts; which he, keeping only a simple food for himself as was his custom, distributed the rest to the poor.
[5] Thence he sets out for Rome. When at last he reached the age of a man, taking on sharper penitence, he set out as a pilgrim. Then saying farewell to the said matron and to the other inhabitants of the village, he went away as a pilgrim; and visiting the thresholds of the blessed Peter and Paul and the Roman stations and other famous pilgrimages, and returning to the house of the said matron, he was received by her kindly: who, refreshing him tired from the journey, provided him the necessities of life. But the man of God, refreshed there for some time and his strength restored, again visited the same thresholds. At last, oppressed by such great fatigues, and the skin of his belly ruptured, and at last broken by his labors his intestines descended to the bottom of his body: and because he refused to apply medicines to his body, when he could no longer go on pilgrimages, he perfectly adapted to himself that Apostolic saying, "When I am weak, then am I strong and powerful: and I will gladly glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me." 2 Cor. 12:9 & 10 he builds a little cell. Then the man of God, desiring to cling to God alone, and leaving behind all desire of the world, built a little cell next to the church, that he might always be devoutly present at the divine offices: into which he entered never to come out. And so, enclosed there, he was fed on barley bread alone, prepared with lye, and a thin draught of water: and content with these things, giving himself to fastings and prayers, for a certain space of time, he offered continual service to God.
NOTES.
CHAPTER II.
St. Drogo is illustrated by miracles both living and dead.
[6] He refuses to go out when it is burning, Meanwhile in the vicinity of the church, by what chance is unknown, a raging fire cast such a devouring chasm of flames, that it could not be prevented by any guard. When part of the church and the whole cell of the man of God was burning, seeing such terrible and impending fire, those who were present cried out: "Drogo, man of God, come out, and save yourself unharmed; because your cell
is so kindled on every side that we cannot help you by any means." To whom the man of God replied: "I have made a vow to the Lord, and I will pay it: but if it please the divine piety that I be burned in the flames, let his will be done." The man of God, however, persevering with steady mind in prayer, remained unmoved. His cell being burned, and he is found unharmed in the burnt cell. and a certain part of the temple, the man of God remaining in his former cheerfulness, with knees bent, eyes raised to heaven, gave thanks to almighty God. But the fire, like the Chaldean furnace, did not touch him at all to within three feet, nor brought him any hurt. A wondrous and amazing thing! Who ever heard of a man between fiery chasms, unless protected by divine piety, remaining unburnt? The multitude of the faithful of both sexes and every age, who had gathered for this spectacle, seeing what had been done, beat their breasts, saying to one another: "O how great is the mercy of the Savior, who preserved this man unharmed amidst so many storms."
[7] After these things, the devoted people built him another little cell as quickly as they could, with his intestines rotten from the rupture while the man of God, remaining with steady mind, so much in prayer on bent knees, implored the mercy of the Savior, that the intestines, which had descended to the bottom of his body, and the thighs contiguous to the intestines, began to rot with a stench. Many from the people, commending themselves to the prayers of the man of God, offered him many things; which the man of God, so adjured in the name of the Savior, received, immediately giving them to the poor: he kept for himself only the food of barley or ash-baked bread (and if any seasoning, it was without salt or grease). he dies piously, For about forty-five years, leading a strict and solitary life in the aforesaid reclusion, in a good old age, about to receive the rewards of his labors, he departed from the body.
[8] Then his relatives and kinsmen, who frequently visited him, asked that the lifeless body be given to them: which was granted with kind favor. They rejoicing, placing the holy body upon a cart, The body given to the relatives brought it almost to the limits of the territory of Sebourg. But when they had come there, the cart was so oppressed by such weight that they could neither lift nor move it. Then they, frustrated in their hope, leaving the body, went away. The inhabitants with a multitude of clergy and great joy, bringing back the venerable and holy clod to Sebourg, honorably buried it there in the church built in honor of Blessed Martin. it becomes immovable, Still the common people call the place, where the heavy and agile body was found, by a common word "Mount of Joy of St. Drogo," and he is buried at Sebourg. because of the foresaid event: and because his tomb was almost in the middle of the church, they placed there, out of veneration of the man of God, the fonts in which holy Mother Church, about to bring forth children to God, regenerates as a Virgin.
[9] After five years a certain woman in the hamlet of Sebourg of the same parish, having had a broken arm for a long time, could be healed by no medicinal remedy: a woman with incurable broken arm is healed there, who one night, half-waking, thought she was in the church and saw a lamb shining with snowy whiteness, going around the tomb of the man of God with leaps, and then being received into it. In the morning, going to the house of Elizabeth, the former nurse of the man of God, hoping to have her health restored, she narrated the vision in detail: they themselves going together to the tomb of the man of God, sought with devout affection the help of almighty God and of holy Drogo. Without delay: the tomb of the man of God was so raised up, that the foundations of the fonts fell in, and through certain cracks the interior of the tomb was opened. Then the sick woman, thrusting her arm into the interior of the tomb, immediately withdrew it with the soundness of the other arm: and thus whole and cheerful, praising the Savior and the mercy of the man of God, returned to her home.
[10] With this miracle spreading and being broadcast, a concourse of the sick to the tomb. from distant and neighboring parts many who heard, oppressed by various illnesses, namely those with gravel and stone, and those whose intestines had descended to the bottom with ruptured belly skin, came and were all healed according to their devotion. At the same time, with miracles increasing, such a multitude of people flowed to the tomb of Blessed Drogo, that because of the multitude of people not all could touch the tomb, but, with coupled vessels (cuplis) prepared, they placed their offerings according to the greatness of their devotion.
NOTES.
CHAPTER III.
The body is carried to Binche, and thence brought back to Sebourg. Miracles following.
[11] In those days Ferrand, a public enemy of the Royal majesty, Count of Flanders and Hainaut, the treasure of St. Drogo is plundered, knowing by report of his satellites that innumerable treasures had been gathered there, seduced by the poison of avarice, sent the Provost of Aire, with some of his servants, who coming, carried off all the treasures gathered there; promising that they would obtain by Apostolic authority the canonization of the man of God's life at their own expense, if the outcome of the war undertaken ended prosperously. Afterwards those who were in charge in the County of Hainaut arranged, the body is transferred to Binche: that they should take the body of Blessed Drogo to Binche, so that it might be more venerably honored by the people. The body therefore having been removed from the place in which he had led an Angelic life, and placed at Binche, the miracles which before were done in the presence of the body ceased altogether: but pilgrims going back to the place of the tomb obtained their desired benefits according to their faith.
[12] For nearly nine years the miracles ceasing in the presence of the body, but with the miracles ceasing there, those who had given the counsel for such a removal being struck, they took counsel that it should be brought back to the place of its former tomb. With this counsel being made known, multitudes of both sexes of the surrounding villages, flocking together in crowds, preceded and followed it rejoicing while it was brought back; and the crops being trampled in June by the feet of so many thousands, in the ninth year he is brought back to Sebourg, all despaired of their recovery. But on the following day, after the body of Blessed Drogo was placed in the former tomb, all the grain trodden by the feet of those passing by regained its former fertility, without damage to the trampled crop. so much so that not even a footprint appeared. And thus, with the miracles reviving and increasing, the desired benefits, by God's bounty, are obtained by all who come seeking benefits, our Lord Jesus Christ granting, to whom be praise and glory forever and ever.
[13] In the city of Verdun there was a woman afflicted with stone, who could not be healed by any help from doctors. This woman, A woman with stone is freed: hearing the fame of the man of God, came to the place of his tomb; when she prayed, she emitted a large stone, the size of a goose egg; and thus, leaving the stone in the church as a sign of the miracle, whole and cheerful, giving thanks to God, she returned home.
[14] The Lord John of blessed memory, Count of Holland and Hainaut, in whose County and lordship the venerable body of the man of God was buried, was very much vexed by the disease of stone: likewise John Count of Hainaut his servants, seeing which, said to him: "Until now vexed by such a disease, we went to the tomb of St. Drogo, suppliantly to beg health by his merits: we, having made prayer before the tomb, bringing to the church the weights of our bodies, received sudden health; and vowing to offer to the church the same weights or an equivalent money each year as long as we live, we believe ourselves to be protected from such suffering by the merits of St. Drogo." The Prince, taught by such or similar words, as he was most wise, came to the church where the body of St. Drogo rests. The Prince being weighed and approaching the tomb of the man of God, and imploring with suppliant prayer with those who were present the mercy of God and of the man of God, with four stones: behold suddenly the said Prince emitted four twin stones of the size of a hazelnut, which he left in the church as a sign of the miracle: and the said Prince, offering a cloth woven with gold as ornaments for the church, withdrew cheerful. Then the inhabitants of that place, running up, said: "It is absurd, O most illustrious Prince, that mortals dare not inscribe in the number of the Saints, despite the Apostolic Decretal forbidding, the venerable body of so holy a man, through whom so many miracles shine: wherefore we pray that for love of God and your speedy restoration, you take pains to obtain that he be canonized by the supreme Pontiff." He, moved by the prayers of so many, promised.
[15] A certain Knight born in the diocese of Beauvais, secretary of King Charles, came to the church of St. Drogo at Sebourg, his body having been weighed and prayer made, and a secretary of the King of France narrating the cause of his pilgrimage to many inhabitants present, said: "I was one day in the royal chamber, with the King present; and as we were talking about various things, it happened, I know not by what chance, that my intestines, with the skin of my belly ruptured, descended to the bottom: and I, gnashing with my teeth, returned to my lodging as quickly as I could. Then, doctors and surgeons being called, I could be healed by none of them, the testicles remaining. What more? The day arrived on which I had to be cut. My saddened friends and servants felt sorry for me; when behold a certain squire came saying, 'My lord, there is a certain Saint in Hainaut, named Drogo, is healed from an immense rupture, who has the merit of healing such diseases.' And I, from the deepest affection of my heart, promised to St. Drogo that if by his suffragial merits I should merit health by divine piety, I would visit the threshold of his church with my bodily presence. Soon in a wondrous manner by such an efficacious miracle and a swift return home, I remained cheerful and wholly sound. But afterwards, hindered by royal and my own affairs, I negligently postponed the pilgrimage promised with such devotion. After a year of my healing elapsed, and the fulfillment of my promise neglected, I was vexed again with the former disease. When this had thus been done I said in my mind: 'Deservedly I suffer these things, ungrateful to the Saint of God.' Considering these things, wishing to satisfy the Saint, as if with a doubled promise, taking my wife with me, I came to pay, and again was healed, with the help of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom is honor and glory forever and ever. Amen."