When Theodosius was put upon the rack he suffered very great
torture at the first. Somebody asked him how he endured all that
pain on the rack. He replied: “When I was first put upon the
rack I suffered a great deal; but very soon a young man in white
stood by my side, and with a soft and comfortable handkerchief
he wiped the sweat from my brow, and my pains were relieved. It
was a punishment for me to get from the rack, because when the
pain was all gone the angel was gone.” (Text.)
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