Then appeared there Christ's Angel, and raised the youth,
and he immediately ran out, when he was requickened,
crying everywhere, and saying thus,
'There is One God in Heaven and likewise on earth,
He who is the God of the Christians, and your gods are naught;
they can neither profit themselves nor help others.'
Then the idolaters were sorely troubled,
and cried clamorously against the believing maiden,
'Away, away quickly with the cruel witch,
her who thus by her witchcraft perverts men's minds.'
Then the Prefect durst do nothing against the heathen,
but left his deputy to stem the tumult,
and himself went away sorrowful in mind,
because he could not save the maiden
from the idolators, after the raising of his son.
"Well, then, Aspasius, the deputy- Prefect,
could not oppose the blood-thirsty people,
but bade men kindle, for this great dishonour (of the gods),
a very great fire, and bade them shove her into the midst.
Then was it so done, as the cruel man commanded,
but the flame instantly divided itself into two parts,
and burned up those who had made the tumult;
and the blessed Agnes stood unharmed in the midst of the fire,
with outstretched hands, thus praying,
' Oh! Thou Almighty God, who alone art to be adored,
Terrible Creator, who art truly to be worshipped.
Father of my Lord, I bless Thee,
for that I have escaped, through Tliy gracious Son,
the threatenings of the wicked, and also the filth of the devil.
Behold, now I am besprinkled with divine dew,
this flame is divided, and the unbelievers are consumed.
I bless Thee, Father, who art to be proclaimed God,
that I may pass unfearful through the fire to Thee.
That which I have believed, that I see ;
that which I have hoped for, that I now have;
