it is written: He spoke and it was done, commanded and creation sprung from chaos. Some days after the youth came and thanked her who had healed him, and he assured us that he had not been troubled with the slightest indisposition since that hour.
I was witness to this, and can say like St. John: "He who hath seen bears testimony." There were also with me, Catherine's host, and Lapa, and also the inmates of the house, also Friar Thomas, confessor of Catherine and of the patient, Friar Bartholomew of St. Dominic and all the devout women of Sienna, who had accompanied Catherine. The youth who had been restored to health, published the miracle throughout the city, and when I was passing through Pisa several years after, he visited me and it was with difficulty I recognised him, so robust and manly was he in health and bearing: he recounted in presence of those who accompanied me, what has occurred, and attributed the glory of it to God's faithful servant Catherine.
A miracle similar to this, had taken place at Sienna; only the illness was more dangerous. A Sister of Penance of St. Dominic named Gemmina, was much attached to Catherine: she had a quinsy, in consequence of a cold in the head which she had neglected, and her sickness made such rapid progress that the remedies employed proved inefficacious: the throat was so much inflamed that there was danger of suffocation. In this position, she made an extraordinary effort and went to Catherine, saying, as well as she could, as soon as she beheld her , "Mother, I shall die, unless you help me." Catherine had pity on the poor sister who could scarcely breathe in holy confidence, she applied her hand to the throat, made over it the sign of the Cross, and the
