18. Of the multitude of these miracles we add some here. One time,
when the brethren, labouring in the harvest, were oppressed with
peril of thirst, they sent to holy Father Queranus that they might be
refreshed by the blessing of water. To these, through the servants, he
said: "Choose ye," said he, "one of two things; either that ye be now
revived with water, or that those who are to inhabit this place after
you be blessed with the things of this world." But they answering
said: "We choose," said they, "that those who come after us may abound
in temporal goods, and that we may have the reward of long-suffering
in heaven." And so, rejoicing in the hope of the things to come, they
abstained from drinking, though they were in great need of it.
But in the evening when they were returning home, the tender father,
having compassion on the weariness of the labourers, blessed a vessel
filled with water: and now renewing the holy miracle in Cana of
Galilee, he changed the water into the best wine. By this wine they,
fainting from thirst, were revived; and revived in faith by the
manifestation of an unwonted miracle, they gave praises to God
Almighty. For the taste of this miraculous wine was more grateful than
was wont, and its odour scented the thumb of the wine-drawer so long
as he survived.