Excerpt from the Legend of Christianius
Excerpt from the Legend of the Christianius is a lore book in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
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On the miraculous powers of the mortal remains of Saint Wenceslas.
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In the Frankish lands there lived a man whose legs were crippled. In his dreams there appeared to him a man attired in a white robe, who urged him thus: Get up and go to the City of Prague and the Cathedral of St. Vitus; there lies the body of the blessed martyr Wenceslas, and there your health shall be restored. When the man ignored this, the man in a white robe appeared to him again and said: Why have you not heeded me and gone, that you might walk again? And he, beside his wits did answer willingly: I will go, Sir. And leaning on his cane he went to some merchants, who were getting ready to go there and paid them and with their help came to the named place. And there in the church of the two saints he threw himself on the flags before all and with long prayers and weeping begged Our Lord to have mercy on him for the sake of Saint Wenceslas. And no sooner did he stand up from prayer, than by divine grace his knees were firmed. And he gave thanks to God and to blessed Wenceslas, by whose intercession the Lord deigned to heal him.
When the glory and renown of this and other such miracles of the sacred martyr spread far and wide, there were those who were tempted to take the remains of the sacred body to keep for themselves or give to their loved ones. There were those who acted by good will, that the name of the martyr be spoken of in all the provinces, but when those of ill-will or out of covetousness tried to do so, they soon succumbed to vengeance. At that time, the saint's own sister, Přibyslava, as far as the human eye can judge, living beneath a sacred veil, did get embroiled in such things, her accomplice in the matter being the priest of St. Stephen's Church. But by the church there was a pilgrim, who they took to be saintly and whose bad advice they heeded to do the deed.
To make a short tale of it, taking him with them on the appointed night they made him a party to their unfortunate deed: disinterring the sacred body, they began their desecration. For the priest's son did disrespectfully handle the jaw of the saintly remains and pulled it out. This they wrapped in a cloth and covered the rest of the body again with earth. From the relic they took, they kept what share they wanted and distributed the rest among their friends. But soon the wrath of God descended on them all. However, since, as is known, this happened. recently and is abundantly familiar, I regard it as superfluous to put it in this account. I only write down that sudden and unexpected deaths surprised them and they departed from this world.