The Paradise/Volume 1/The history of the Monks/Chapter 28

by Palladius of Galatia

Chapter XXVIII: The Triumph Of John

AND we saw another blessed man whose name was John, and he was an Abbâ of the monks in the city of Dîkâpôlîs; and grace clung to him even as unto Abraham, and his beard flowed down like that of Aaron. He worked many mighty deeds and cures, and he healed those who were afflicted with gout, and the sick, and those who were paralytics.

Here endeth the Triumph of John