The Commentary of Father Monserrate 2.2.3

2.2.3

In this connection a wonderful, nay almost a miraculous, event occurred. For one of the Gabraeans, whom I regard as Jews or Samaritans, was obstinately opposing the Fathers in controversy. Meanwhile Rudolf chanced to open a casket in which were preserved certain relics of St. Stephen the Protomartyr, and of several other saints. The Gabraean immediately became terrified, uttered a loud shriek, started back, and exclaimed as though he had gone mad. "If there are bones of dead men here, I cannot stay, unless I tear off these garments in which I am clothed, and rend them to pieces." Rudolf answered him quietly, wisely and in the true spirit of Christianity, — "We do not carry about the bones of the dead, but of the living." Forthwith he shut up the casket. And the Gabraean, recovering from his terror, started again upon the interrupted controversy.