29. Of the flocking of visitors to her dead body

But her death being known, and the report of the glory of her body flying far and wide, so great a concourse of men flowed to visit her even to midnight, all the days that she re mained unburied, that from the different states and towns of Rotterdam, of Delft, of Leyden, and Briel, and from other neighbouring towns and districts, so many hastened to the sight of this body that their certain number beyond many thousands cannot be assigned nor easily expressed. For children of three or four years, as if accustomed to walking, hastened with such eager ness that they urged even men of adult age to visit such great relics. Then the virgin could say if she had lived, " Suffer the little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven" (Mark x 14). Having entered then the house in which was the holy bier, and because as children they were of small stature and could not lift themselves up to see the body in the ST. LYDWINE of SCHIEDAM place where it lay, many of them crying and grieving said: "Shall I not see this virgin, for whom I have come from so far?" Then the bystanders raised them up to see the face of the virgin, and after the sight sent them back to their homes with an alms of white bread. And what is more wonderful, there was also there a matron with a baby of one year and three months, which infant indeed, with joined hands and face turned towards the coffin, fixed his eyes so reverently and gravely thereon that the watchers and assis tants of the sacred remains seeing and wondering at the infant's devotion were moved to tears.