place because Ancona signifies 'the elbow' in Greek. But no miracles were wrought there till after the body of Stephen had been discovered." St. Augustine was going on with his discourse, recounting other miracles from these relics, when a great shout arose, and the congregation interrupted him, and some brought before him Palladia, who had just been suddenly healed in the same way as her brother Paul when she went again to pray before the relics. The people were overjoyed, and continued their shouts till Augustine had to pause; and when they were a little silent, he concluded with a thanksgiving. THE VISION OF ST. AUGUSTINE. St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, near Carthage, who died 430, and whose magnificent tomb in the cathedral of Pavia is rich as a work of art, had in the course of his studies, while writing discourses on the Trinity, a dream or vision, which he thus related: "I was wandering along the seashore lost in meditation. Suddenly I beheld a child, who, having dug a hole in the sand, appeared to be bringing water from the sea to fill it. I inquired of the child what was the object of this task, and it replied, 'I intend to empty into this hole all the waters of the great deep.' 'Impossible!' I exclaimed. 'Not more impossible,' replied the child, 'than for you, O Augustine, to explain the mystery on which you are now meditating.'" This incident is also related of another great preacher (see _ante_, p. 108). St. Augustine is often in mediæval pictures represented as standing arrayed in his episcopal robes on the seashore, gazing with astonishment on an infant Christ, who holds a bowl, a cup, and a ladle. Murillo has a great picture on this subject. St. Augustine admitted with shame that when a boy he had robbed an orchard, and that the multiplication table was detestable to him. ST. AUGUSTINE'S FAITH IN DREAMS.