This species of washing produced effects somewhat similar to the vivifying waters of Baptism: grace and salvation at once entered his soul.

He leaped from his horse, threw himself upon his knees, struck his breast, and confessed loudly before all his firm belief in the divinity of Jesus.
The Blessed Virgin and her companions were still standing near, with their eyes fixed upon the Cross, but when Cassius thrust his lance into the side of Jesus they were much startled, and rushed with one accord up to it.

Mary looked as if the lance had transfixed her heart instead of that of her Divine Son, and could scarcely support herself.

Cassius meantime remained kneeling and thanking God, not only for the grace he had received but likewise for the cure of the complaint in his eyes, which had caused the weakness and the squint.

This cure had been effected at the same moment that the darkness with which his soul was previously filled was removed.