E05917: In the anonymous Life of the Jura Fathers, the author recounts how people were cured after they lay in the bed of a monk who had been restored to health by *Lupicinus (ascetic of the Jura, ob. c. 475, S00003); c. 455/c. 475 in Condat (eastern Gaul). Written in Latin at Condat in the Jura mountains (modern Saint-Claude in eastern Gaul), 512/525.

The Life of the Jura Fathers 78 (Life of Saint Lupicinus the Abbot)

The author tells the story (§§ 71-78) of a monk in the monastery in Condat whose fasting was so extreme (he ate nothing but crumbs from the evening meals of the other monks) that it reduced him nearly to the point of death. He could neither straighten his spine, nor walk, nor use his arms. Lupicinus came to him and tried to restore him to health. He took him to the garden and acting as if he himself were knotted up by a similar affliction he was stretching his limbs. Then he did the same with the monk's limbs and fed him with bread soaked in wine. On the third day the monk was able to stand on his own and weed the vegetables. Within a week he was restored. The author then states:

(78.) Huic namque fratri, meritorum gratia adstipulante, diuina largitate concessum est, ut si quis aegrotans lectulo
ipsius fuisset inpositus, explosa omni inaequalitate, confestim sanitatis pristinae commodis redderetur. Ego etiam multis adhuc puerulus ex his fratribus uidi qui id et uisu in aliis et in semet experimentis creberrimis conprobarant.

'Divine largesse, which works together with the grace of good works, was so fully bestowed upon this brother that if someone placed a sick person on his bed, the illness was driven completely away and the person was immediately fully restored to his former good health. I myself, still a young child at the time, saw many of the brothers corroborate this, both from having seen it happen to others and from repeated experiences of their own.'

Text: Martine 1968, 324. Translation: Vivian et al. 1999, 139.