once repented Him of his grievous purpose, and would no longer keep him afflicted, neither would He likewise longer permit that His holy people should lie in heresy; but He, for His great mercy, both granted comfort to the good emperor, and very soon afterwards He willed to manifest to all the people, what each man ought to believe with certainty, and so He very opportunely delivered His Holy Church from the vexation of heretics, and by the deed thus wrought He revealed, by His bright and true light, the future Resurrection of all of them.
Then, at the time when the Christian and good Theodosius was fully trusting in God Almighty, as many of his ancestors had done before him, and was very earnestly bemoaning to God his need, it befell in the days when these aforesaid things happened, that God Almighty provided a very prudent man, who owned possession over all the plot on the Celian Hill, in the midst of which was the cave wherein the seven Saints lay sleeping. He then, this same good man, let his shepherd-boys' cots be reared there all about the hill, that they might lie there handy to their lord's cattle, and might defend themselves against cold and against heat. And they, diligently, the shepherd-boys, as well as their hand-mates (companions) for about two days were employed in the work continually, until, being nearly wearied out, they came where the seven Saints lay very near; and they there soon, unexpectedly, turned over the very fast-set hewn stone ; and ever, as they went nearer and nearer, they found one stone joined on to another ; and just on the second day they set free the keystone of the cave, so that they could easily go in and easily go out. Then it happened that God willed that the holy company should be awaked who had rested in the cave a fitting time. And He then, our Saviour — He Who to unborn children giveth life in their mother's womb, He Who by His power waketh from death the seared bones, He Who also brought Lazarus to life, and awaked him from death about three days after he was buried — He Himself extra-ordinarily, by His own deed, awaked them, those seven Saints who slept in the cave, from sleep ; and they all sat up in sound health after their own manner, and sung their psalms; for there
