an espoused wife, for the certain succession,
that is, that the son should always succeed to the priesthood,
after his father's death, and no other might do so.
It might well be so then, because they never celebrated mass,
but they offered beasts in their sacrifices to God,
neither was the house consecrated before Jesus came,
and instituted the New Covenant with the Christian people,
and chose the pure for His pure service,
not unto the offering of beasts, but unto His own body;
and bishops are not now chosen according to lineage,
but the holy church loveth the chaste,
and Christ will have those that serve Him in chastity
at the living sacrifice of His body and blood.
We have to speak about the wise Petronilla, .
the blessed Peter's daughter, but this occurred to our mind.)
The aforesaid Marcellus said that she lay
in a palsy even as Peter himself willed it.
Then Titus enquired of the blessed Apostle,
why he suffered her so to lie on a sick bed,
when he healed all other cripples, and she alone lay so?
Then said the holy father, that it was for her profit,
'But, lest any one should think that our word cannot
give her healing, I command her now to arise
and serve us all;' and she immediately arose,
served her father, and his companions, being made whole.
After this attendance the holy Peter commanded
her to go to bed, and be again diseased.
Thus she was perfected in the fear of God, and God healed her again,
so that she might herself heal many others,
