I shall recount another great miracle. Once I went with the miracle-worker to the river Jordan, together with some other monks, and when we arrived there, we desired to pray in the sanctuary of the salutary Baptism, where our Lord Jesus Christ cleansed the human substance of all impurity and crashed the heads of the dragon that lurks in the waters. For this purpose we appealed to the old man and persuaded him (to agree). While we approached (the church), we said to him: “If it pleases your holiness, one of us shall go to the monastery of the Precursor that is higher up, to fetch the key of the church, and the keeper as well, for if he does not come, the key will do us no good, because the lock is troublesome and can hardly be opened, as we have experienced more than once”. But the miracle-worker said to us: “There is no need to trouble ourselves with it, beloved children: only come now, and may God’s will be done”. At these words of his we went on, and when we stood near the door, he recited a prayer, kneeled thrice, then touched the lock with his fingertips and immediately opened the door.
(transl. Leah Di Segni)