I saw Longinus and these two men, clothed in long white garments, return to their native land.  They lived there in the country, in a barren and marshy locality.  Here it was that the forty martyrs died.  Longinus was not a priest, but a deacon, and travelled here and there in that capacity, preaching the name of Christ, and giving, as an eye-witness, a history of his Passion and Resurrection.  He converted a large number of persons, and cured many of the sick, by allowing them to touch a piece of the sacred lance which he carried with him.  The Jews were much enraged at him and his two companions because they made known in all parts the truth of the Resurrection of Jesus, and the cruelty and deceits of his enemies.  At their instigation, some Roman soldiers were dispatched to Longinus’s country to take and judge him on the plea of his having left the army without leave, and being a disturber of public peace.  He was engaged in cultivating his field when they arrived, and he took them to his house, and offered them hospitality.  They did not know him, and when they had acquainted him with the object of their journey, he quietly called his two companions who were living in a sort of hermitage at no great distance off, and told the soldiers that they and himself were the men for whom they were seeking.  The same thing happened to the holy gardener, Phocas.  The soldiers were really distressed, for they had conceived a great friendship for him.  I saw him led with his two companions to a small neighbouring town, where they were questioned.  They were not put in prison, but permitted to go whither they pleased, as prisoners on their word, and only made to wear a distinctive park on the shoulder.  Later, they were all three beheaded on a hill, situated between the little town and Longinus’s house, and there buried.  The soldiers put the head of Longinus at the end of a spear, and carried it to Jerusalem, as a proof that they had fulfilled their commission.  I think I remember that this took place a very few years after the death of our Lord.

Afterwards I had a vision of things happening at a later period.  A blind countrywoman of St. Longinus went with her son on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, in hopes of recovering her sight in the holy city where the eyes of Longinus had been cured.  She was guided by her child, but he died, and she was left alone and disconsolate.  Then St. Longinus appeared to her, and told her that she would recover her sight when she had drawn his head out of a sink into which the Jews had thrown it.  This sink was a deep well, with the sides bricked, and all the filth and refuse of the town flowed into it through several drains.  I saw some persons lead the poor woman to the spot; she descended into the well up to her neck, and drew out the sacred head, whereupon she recovered her sight.  She returned to her native land, and her companions preserved the head.  I remember no more upon this subject.

Detached Account of Abenadar.