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 so commanded in a vision to come to him. And then he prayed for him, and he received health. He healed many sick people and did many other miracles.

Then, when his departing approached, he enseigned his brethren that they should retain in mind that no man, of what excellence that he were, ought not to die without confession, ne without to receive his Saviour. And when he came to the last hour he felt him whole in all his members, of good entendment, clear seeing and hearing, and in the year of his age three score and six, and of his bishopric forty, he put himself in prayers with his brethren, which praying he departed out of this life and went unto our Lord. And he made no testament, for he was poor in Jesu Christ and had not whereof.

And thus S. Augustin, right clear by light of wisdom, fighting in defence of truth, of faith and of garnison of the church, surmounted all the other doctors of the church as well by engine as by conning, flourishing without comparison as well by example of virtues as by abundance of doctrine.

There was a man, which had great devotion to S. Augustin, gave great good to a monk that kept the body of S. Augustin, for to have a finger of the glorious saint. And this monk took this money and delivered to him the finger of another dead man, wrapped in silk, and feigned that it was the finger of the glorious S. Austin. And the good man received it much honourably and in great reverence, and honoured it every day devoutly and touched withal his eyes and his mouth, and oft embraced it against