De sancto Gangolfo
The Miraculous Spring
Saint Gangolf demonstrates his divine favor by miraculously causing a spring to flow at his command.
Gangolf was born of a noble family in Burgundy; once, while traveling in Champagne, he came to a spring and drank from it, and the owner of the land where the spring rose came and offered to sell him the spring, but the saint, remembering the Lord's words, "If you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up,' etc.," did so. He bought the spring for a hundred solidi, but when he came to tell his wife about it and was mocked by her, he drove the staff he was holding in his hand into the ground. Once he pulled it out, a spring immediately erupted just like the one he had bought, and the original spring in Champagne never flowed again.
Judgment and Martyrdom
Gangolf confronts his wife's infidelity through divine ordeal and eventually departs to the Lord after receiving the Eucharist.
His wife, however, was defiled by a certain wicked cleric, and when he questioned her about it, she denied it outright; he said, "Put your hand into the spring, so that God, who sees all things, may show the truth." She, undeterred, put it in; immediately the flesh hung down to the bone; then he said, "You are indeed worthy of death, but I leave you to Him who judges all things," and the cleric, who was still attached to the woman, tried one night to cut off Gangolf's head but only wounded him in the thigh. A few days later, after receiving Communion, he departed to the Lord and became famous for many miracles.
The Divine Retribution
The unrepentant wife of the saint suffers a humiliating and public divine punishment for her mockery.
Just as Judas died and burst asunder, so too did the wife of Gangolf. When she heard that her husband was healing the sick, she replied, "Gangolf performs miracles just like my donkey," and immediately a foul sound came from that part of her, and she was subjected to such shame that for the rest of her life, on that same day—Friday—for every word she spoke, she emitted as many foul sounds from that part.
Read the original Latin
Gangolfus ex nobili genere Burgundiae oriundus fuit, Qui quadam vice in Campania ad fontem veniens et de aqua bibens, venit dominus loci, ubi fons emanavit et ei fontem venalem exhibuit, Sanctus vero memor illius verbi dominici: si dixeritis huic monti, tolle te etc. , emit fontem centum solidis, Cum aulem hoc nxori domin veniens narrarel, et ab ea derisus baculum, quein manu tenebat, solo infixit. Quo retracto statin fons erupit sicut ille, quem emerat, et in loco, ubi in Campania fuerat, nunquam plus emanavit. Uxor autem ejus a quodam clerico nefario polluitur, ita quod de hoc eam super his interpellaret el ipsa instanter negaret, Immille, inquit, manum in fontem, ut Deus, qui cuncta videt, veritatem ostendat. Ula imperterrita immisit; slatim carnes usque ad ossa dependebant, Tunc ille: morte quidam digna es, sed ei, qui cuncta judicat, reservo te, Clericus vero mulieri adhaerens quadam nocte cervicem Gangolfi abscidere volens ipsum in coxa vulneravit. Qui post aliquos dies sumta cominunione ad dominum migravit, Qui miraculis multis claruit, clericus. vero nt Judas mortuus crepuit medius, Uxor autem Gangolf cum. andivit, quod maritus ejus aegros sanaret, respondit: sic facit virtutes Gangolfus sicul anus meus, Statin a parte illa turpis sonus prodit talique deinceps subjacuit opprobrio, ut omni vita sua eodem die, scilicet sexta feria, quot verba protulit, tot turpes sonos b illa parte emisit,
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