De resuscitacione cujusdam pueri mortui in terra Prussie in Castr.
A Child Raised by the Wood of the Cross
In 1322, at the castle of Brandenburg in Prussia, an eleven-year-old boy named Thomas died and was restored to life through the power of a relic of the True Cross, which had previously proven its authenticity by leaping from a fire before many witnesses.
Brandenburg. In the year of our Lord 1322, in the land of Prussia, in the castle of Brandenburg, there lived Thomas, son of Hertwig, from Pokarwis. When he was eleven years old, he died and came back to life by the power of the wood of the Lord — wood that a brother from Vleckensteina, from Beno, had carried there beforehand. Brother Gevehardus from Mansvelt once threw it into a fire, and it leapt back out of the fire, with many watching, to prove that it was truly the wood of the cross on which Christ had hung.
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Brandenburgk. Anno domini mcccxxii in terra Prussie in Castro Brandenburgk Thomas filiusi322 Hertwigi de Pokarwis vixit, qui, cum esset im annorum, mortuus fuit, et revixit virtute ligni dominici, quod antea frater de Vleckensteina de Beno illuc tulerat et frater Gevehardus de Mansvelt semel projecit in ignem et de igne resiliit pluribus videntibus ad probandum, quod esset verum lignum crucis, in quab Cristusc pependit.
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