The Apostles surrounded her bed, and "an outpouring of miracles flowed
forth." The blind beheld the sun, the deaf heard, the lame walked, and
every disease fled away. The Apostles and others sang, as the coffin was
borne from Sion to Gethsemane, angels preceding, surrounding, and
following it. {316} A wonderful thing then took place. The Jews were
indignant and enraged, and one more desperately bold than the rest
rushed forward, intending to throw down the holy corpse to the ground.
Vengeance was not tardy; for his hands were cut off from his arms[121].
The procession stopped; and at the command of Peter, on the man shedding
tears of penitence, his hands were joined on again and restored whole.
At Gethsemane she was put into a tomb, but her Son transferred her to
the divine habitation.
[Footnote 120: This author here quotes the forged work ascribed
to Dionysius the Areopagite, to which we have before referred.]
[Footnote 121: This tradition seems to have been much referred
to at a time just preceding our Reformation. In a volume called
"The Hours of the most blessed Mary, according to the legitimate
rite of the Church of Salisbury," printed in Paris in 1526, from
which we have made many extracts in the second part of this
work, the frontispiece gives an exact representation of the
story at the moment of the Jew's hands being cut off.
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