11. (2) Among other places, the holy man had come to a fort called Cucullis, invited by the pious request of the people in its vicinity. There he worked a great miracle which I cannot leave untold. We have heard the amazing account from Marcianus, a citizen of that place, afterwards our presbyter. Some of the populace still adhered to the practice of abominable sacrifices in a certain place. When the man of God heard of this sacrilege, he frequently addressed the people, prevailed upon the presbyters of the locality to announce a three days' fast, and ordered every household to offer a candle, which each one with his own hand fixed on the walls of the church. (3) Then, as usual, the psalter was recited, and when the hour of the sacrifice had come, the man of God invited the presbyters and deacons to pray with him to their common Lord with all the vigor of their hearts to show them the light of His knowledge so that they might know the lawless. When they, on their knees, had said long prayers with many tears, the greater number of the candles which the faithful had brought were suddenly kindled by the will of God; the remainder, however, of those of the people stained by sacrilegious practices, who, anxious to remain unknown, had denied it, were left unkindled. (4) Those then, who had offered them, made known by the divine test, immediately cried out and, by their attempts to excuse themselves, gave away the secrets of their hearts; and being convicted by the testimony of their candles, they made an open confession and bore witness to their sacrilegious acts. [...]
(trans. L. Bieler 1965: 69-70)