a procession, in the which he did do bear an image of our Lady, which, as is said, S. Luke the Evangelist made, which was a good painter; he had carved it and painted after the likeness of the glorious Virgin Mary. And anon the mortality ceased, and the air became pure and clear, and about the image was heard a voice of angels that sung this anthum: 'Regina cæli lætare, etc.,' and S. Gregory put thereto: 'Ora pro nobis deum, alleluia.' At the same time S. Gregory saw an angel upon a castle which made clean a sword all bloody, and put it into the sheath; and thereby S. Gregory understood that the pestilence of this mortality was passed, and after that it was called the Castle Angel.
S. Gregory did every day so great alms that many in the country about were nourished by him, whom he had by name written, and also the monks that dwelt in the Mount Sinai had of him their sustenance. Among all other alms that he did he governed three thousand virgins, to whom he sent every year four score pound of gold, and also he founded to them an abbey in Jerusalem, and sent to them that therein were such things as they lacked. Every day had he poor men to dinner. On a time it happed that he took the laver for to give water to a pilgrim for to wash his hands by great humility, and anon the pilgrim vanished away, whereof S. Gregory had marvel. The night after our Lord appeared in a vision and said to him: 'The other days thou hast received me in my members, but yesterday thou receivedst me in my person.'
Another day S. Gregory commanded to his dis-
