E00723: Victricius of Rouen names saints who perform healing miracles at their burial place and elsewhere: *John (the Apostle and Evangelist, S00042), *Proculus and *Agricola (martyrs of Bologna, S00448 and S00310), *Antonius/Antoninus (martyr of Piacenza, S00328), *Nazarius (martyr of Milan, S00281) and several other saints, male and female, of uncertain identity (S00446, S00449, and S00453). Written in Latin in Rouen (northern Gaul), 395/397.

Victricius of Rouen, Praising the Saints 11, lines 1-17

For a summary and discussion of the whole text see E00717.

Victricius argues that the saints are equally potent in the place where they are buried, where their relics are deposited, and generally everywhere:

Huc accedit quod non minus in partibus quam in soliditate curatio est. An aliter in Oriente, Constantinopoli, Antiochiae, Thessalonicae, Naiso, Romae, in Italia miseris porrigunt medicinam? An aliter laborantia corpora defecantur? Curat Ephesi Iohannes Euangelista, praeterea et in locis plurimis: quem a Christi pectore nec ante consecrationem accepimus recessisse, et apud nos ipsa eius est medicina. Curat Bononiae Proculus, Agricola et hic quoque horum cernimus maiestatem. Curat Placentiae Antonius. Curat Saturninus, Troianus in Macedonia. Curat Nazarius Mediolano. Mucius, Alexander, Datysus, Chindeus larga uirtute gratiam salutis infundunt. Curat Ragota, Leonida, Anastasia, Anatoclia, ut ait apostolus Paulus: In uirum perfectum, in mensuram aetatis plenitudinis Christi, uno atque eodem spiritu, qui omnia in omnibus operatur. Rogo an alia est apud nos, alia apud alios memoratorum medela sanctorum? Quod si quicquid ubique sanctorum est, parili pietate cultores suos defendunt, purgant, tuentur.

'Moreover, their [the saints'] healing power is no less in their parts than in their entirety. Do they offer medicine to the wretched differently in the East, at Constantinople, at Antioch, at Thessalonica, at Naissus, at Rome, in Italy? Do they purify ailing bodies differently? John the Evangelist cures at Ephesus, and many other places besides; we are told that he did not leave Christ's breast even before his sanctification, and that same healing power is here with us. Proculus and Agricola cure at Bononia, and here too we observe their majesty. Antonius cures at Placentia. Saturninus and Troianus cure in Macedonia. Nazarius cures at Milan. Mucius, Alexander, Datysus, Chindeus pour out the favour of health with generous virtue. Ragota, Leonida, Anastasia, Anatoclia cure, as the apostle Paul says "to perfect man, to the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ" by one and the same spirit "who does all in all." I ask, do these saints I have named heal in one way among us, in another among others? No: if anything of the saints is anywhere, they defend, cleanse, and protect their worshipers with equal piety.'

Text: Mulders and Demeulenaere 1985, 86-87. Translation: Clark 1999, 393-394, modified.