and the tomb guarded by seals, for such was the counsel of bold disbelief. But when the appointed day had arrived, the seal was tested, the mystery examined, the miracles investigated, and through the miracles she became an indisputable witness to her own power: once again rivers of aromatic blood sprang from the tomb, the mystery gushed with the discharges, sponges were enriched with sacred blood, and the martyrdom multiplied the effluences. And so in this way the martyr educated the emperor's disbelief. But the emperor sent, in return for the gushing forth of blood, an inundation of tears,
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