(1) You have heard from many all about the blessed Innocent, the priest of the Mount of Olives; nevertheless you will also hear from us, who lived with him for three years. - - - (3) - - - Once we ourselves saw brought to him a young man who was paralyzed and possessed. I reprimanded the young man’s mother for bringing him, as I doubted that he could be cured. (4) Meanwhile the old man chanced to come up and see her standing there weeping and bewailing the unspeakable misfortune of her son. Then the venerable old man wept; deeply moved, he took the young man into the shrine which he himself had erected and in which were kept the relics of Saint John the Baptist. And he prayed over him from the third to the ninth hour and then returned him healed to his mother the same day, as he had driven out both the paralysis and the demon. The paralysis had been of such a form that when the young man spat, he spat upon his own back, so turned about he was.
(transl. Meyer)
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