22. The most glorious soldier of Christ, shining with these and many
other [miracles], like the luminary which presides over the day, as he
reached the setting of his natural course, approached it, seized with
grievous sickness. But because he who shall have endured unto the end
shall be saved, so the champion of Christ, not only strengthening
himself in the battle of this conflict, but also calling on souls to
conquer, caused the stone, on which, supporting his head, he was wont
until then to concede a little sleep to his body, to be placed even
under his shoulders; then raising his holy hand he blessed the
brethren, and, fortified by reception of the viaticum of salvation,
gave back his soul to heaven. For as that blessed soul departed from
the body, the choirs of angels with hymns and songs received it into
the glory of God.