Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vol. LIV: Augustini Epistulae Pars I

13. Meanwhile, a certain old woman, who was sustained by the resources of the church, rendered her spirit due to heaven, and as if by industry, the body of the substitute is covered in the tomb as the order of things proceeds. At dawn, the devil original: "zabulus" meets the lictor; he asks for the corpse of the killed woman and seeks for the sepulcher to be shown to him; he thinks she lives and wonders that she could have died. The freshly turned turf is shown to him by the clergy, and the earth, recently piled over her, is hurled at him as he demands it, with these words:

‘Go ahead, dig up the bones already laid to rest, bring a new war to the tomb, and, if this is too little, tear apart the limbs to be mangled by birds and beasts; she who was struck seven times ought to suffer something more than death.’

14. With the executioner thus confused by such spite, the woman is secretly revived at home, and, lest the frequent visits of the doctor to the church reveal the path of suspicion, she is sent away with certain virgins to a more secluded villa, her hair shorn. There, little by little, her wound is scarred over, her dress changed to men's clothing. And — O truly the highest law is the highest malice! — after such miracles, the laws still rage.

15. Behold where the order of events has led me! For we have now arrived at the name of our Euagrius. If I were to think that his labor for Christ could be expressed by me, I would not know how; if I wished to be silent altogether, I could not, as my voice breaks into joy. For who could be able...