Placidus lived in that house, holdingthe wooden handle in the water, the iron of its own accord swam, andjoined it again, as St. Bennet, and of his predictions andmiracles, he resolved to try whether he was really that wonderful manwhich he was reported to be. But it seems most probable that the Scottish martyr isnot the same person with the British king. Being then informed where she dwelt, he dressedhimself like a citizen of that town, and going to the inn where shelived in the pursuit of her evil courses, desired her company with himat supper.
20, quoted by Bollandus, andchiefly from a life of this saint, compiled at Wexlow about the year1205, published from an ancient MS. f theWest: in which quality he was afterwards solemnly acknowledged byNicephorus, emperor of Constantinople. Victor[6] informs us. in Eusebius, l, 6, c.
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