Diatribe de Prodigiosis Crucibus

observing them, and being unable by any force or industry of art to wash them away, many, struck with fear and an inward horror of mind, most steadfastly confessed Him to be G O D—Christ, whom they had at first attacked with blasphemous voices—now that He was impressed and marked upon their garments. Yet many others, carried away by the impulse of a more stubborn neck, unhappily cast aside the happy lot that had befallen them and clung to Judaism. And in this manner, the Jews and Gentiles alike abandoned the place and the work they had begun in vain, being dispersed into all lands by the just judgment of G O D; so that there seems to be verified that elegant
Pope St. Leo.

pronouncement of St. Leo: that the Religion founded upon the sacrament of the Cross can be destroyed by no arts or schemes, by no kind of cruelty.

In the year 361, when Julian the Apostate entered the borders of Illyricum, it is reported, says Sozomen, that vines appeared after the vintage, around the setting of the Pleiades, laden with sour and immature grapes; and that a dew, having fallen from the air upon both his garments and those of his companions, had impressed the sign of the Cross on the individual drops; and they said the meaning of this portent was this: that the Impera-