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One day, when the saint had retired to his devotions, the boys amused themselves with his little pet; and a struggle arising among them for its possession, the head was torn from the body altogether a natural incident. Thereupon, says the narrator, fear was turned to grief, and the avenging birch "plagas virgarum quæ puerorum gravissima tormenta esse solent" arose terribly in their sight.
In 542 a Greek historian, Procopius, born about the year 500, gives a good description of this plague in a work, "Pestilentia Gravissima," so called in the Latin translation. Dupouy in "Le Moyen Age Medical," says that it commenced in the village of Peleuse, in Egypt, and followed a double course, one branch going to Alexandria and the other to Palestine.
Touching the importance of the thing, Gravissima, &c.: “Most weighty matters in the church,” saith Gerhard, and the same saith Zanchius also, “ought not to be undertaken without the consent of the whole ecclesiastical body;” and, as Pope Leo writeth, “Such things as pertain unto all ought to be done with the consent of all.
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