Moreover, a continual miracle protects them.

John drinks poison but is unharmed.

Sebastian smiles although pierced with arrows; sometimes they remain in the air at the right or left of the martyr, or, launched by the archer, they return upon himself and put out his eyes.
Molten lead is swallowed as if it were ice-water.

Lions prostrate themselves, and lick their hands as gently as lambs.

The gridiron of Saint Lawrence is of an agreeable freshness to him.