E01117: Augustine of Hippo, in his City of God (22.8), tells how relics of *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030), deposited on the estate of Audurus (North Africa), saved a child driven over by a wagon. Written in Latin in Hippo (North Africa), c. 426/427.

Augustine of Hippo, City of God 22.8

Audurus nomen est fundi, ubi ecclesia et in ea memoria martyris Stephani. Puerum quendam paruulum, cum in area luderet, exorbitantes boues, qui uehiculum trahebant, rota obtriuerunt, et confestim palpitauit expirans. Hunc mater abreptum ad eandem memoriam posuit, et non solum reuixit, uerum etiam inlaesus apparuit.

'Audurus is the name of an estate, where there is a church that contains a memorial shrine (memoria) of the martyr Stephen. It happened that, as a little boy was playing in the court, the oxen drawing a wagon went out of the track and crushed him with the wheel, so that immediately he seemed at his last gasp. His mother snatched him up, and laid him at the shrine, and not only did he revive, but also appeared uninjured.'

Text: Dombart and Kalb 1955. Translation: Dods 1887.