8/21 His body was subsequently carried to Spain, and his remains performed such miracles as he had never wrought in his lifetime. They appear, for the most part, only incidentally in the Gospels; and excepting a few--Saint Peter, Saint John, and Saint Paul--whose figures are more or less definite, they float past like shades, lost, veiled as it were, in the halo of glory shed about Him by Jesus Christ. And after His death they vanish into thin air, and their very existence is only sketched in a few vague legends. What were the circumstances and reasons of his call? In what lands did he preach the new faith? |