He converted a large number of persons, and cured many of the sick, by allowing them to touch a piece of the sacred lance which he carried with him.

The Jews were much enraged at him and his two companions because they made known in all parts the truth of the Resurrection of Jesus, and the cruelty and deceits of his enemies.

At their instigation, some Roman soldiers were dispatched to Longinus's country to take and judge him on the plea of his having left the army without leave, and being a disturber of public peace.

He was engaged in cultivating his field when they arrived, and he took them to his house, and offered them hospitality.

They did not know him, and when they had acquainted him with the object of their journey, he quietly called his two companions who were living in a sort of hermitage at no great distance off, and told the soldiers that they and himself were the men for whom they were seeking.