Not long after the miraculous deliverance of his beloved city, Saint Aignan fell asleep in the Lord.[500] [Footnote 500: Hubert, _Antiquitez historiques de l'eglise royale de Saint-Aignan d'Orleans_, 1661, in 8vo, pp.

1-15.] Wherefore, in this great peril of the English, the citizens of Orleans resorted to Saint Euverte and Saint-Aignan for succour and relief.
According to the marvels accomplished by Saint-Aignan in this mortal life they measured his power of working miracles now that he was in Paradise.

These two confessors had each his church in the faubourg de Bourgogne, wherein their bodies were jealously guarded.[501] In those days the bones of martyrs and confessors were devoutly worshipped.

It was said that sometimes they shed abroad a healing odour which represented the virtues proceeding from them.

They were enclosed in gilded reliquaries adorned with precious stones, and no miracle was thought too great to be accomplished by these holy relics.