A.D. 1098.] TH E SAVIOUR'S LANCE FOUND. 417 many years bath a pagan people possessed that house which was the house of prayer, and shamefully defiled it ; and behold, wilt thou, for the sins of a few, destroy in thy anger all the Christians who have freed thy house by their own blood ? Have mercy, Lord, have mercy upon thy people, and deliver not thy inheritance to destruction, nor let the nations triumph over them.' The most holy listened to the prayers of his mother and the apostle, and, smiling pleasantly, said to me these words :—' Go and tell my people to remove every brothel and all uncleanness away from them, to wash away their shame with their tears, and to return to me, and I will then return to them, and within five days I will render them timely assistance, because 1 am the God of mercy. Let them sing in the mean time, Our enemies were gathered and boasted in their strength; bruise thou their might, Ο Lord, and scatter them that they may know that there is none other to fight for them, but only thou, Ο Lord.'" When the priest had finished, all the people immediately turned to lamentations, and exhorted one another to confess their sins. One might see the tears running down their cheeks ; and all ages with ashes on their heads and barefoot, going up to the churches to pray for counsel and assistance from on high. Then Boamund, being a man wise in counsel, exhorted every one of them to bind himself by an oath never to leave that holy band of pilgrims until they had kissed the sepulchre of the Lord, according to the original intention of their pilgrimage. The advice was received by all ; they took the oath, and their energies were thereby marvellously strengthened. How they found the lance of the Saviour. About the same time, a priest named Peter, of Provence, came to the bishop of Puy and the count of Toulouse, asserting that the apostle St. Andrew had appeared to him in a dream, and earnestly bade him three or four times go to the princes, and tell them that they would find hidden, in the church of the prince of the apostles, the lance with which our Saviour's side was pierced, and he gave the clearest tokens by which the place might be found. He came therefore to the princes, as he had been bidden, and told them everything, adding,, that, the apostle had used many threats in case he should disobey, vol. I. EE