the Oppression of the holy Church, by that most wicked, blasphemous, and not worthy to be named Wretch, Aistolphus, to fly for Refuge to that excellent and faithful Votary of St. Peter, Lord Pipin, the most Christian King, took my Journey into France; where I fell into a mortal Distemper and remained some Time in the District of Paris, in the venerable Monastery of St. Denis the Martyr.  And being now past Hopes of Recovery, methought I was one Day at Prayers in the Church of the same blessed Martyr, in a Place under the Bells:  And that I saw standing before the great Altar our Master Peter; and that great Master of the Gentiles, our Master Paul; whom I knew very well by their Vestments.  And a little after, I saw the blessed Lord Denis, a tall and slender Man, standing at the Right Hand of our Lord Peter.  And then that good Pastor the Lord Peter said—­This good Brother of ours asks for Health.  Then reply’d the blessed Paul—­He shall be healed presently.  And thereupon approaching to our Lord Denis, he amicably put his Hand upon his Breast, and look’d back upon our Lord Peter, and Lord Peter with a chearful Countenance said to our Lord Denis, His Health shall be your particular Act of Favour.  Then presently Lord Denis taking a Censer full of Incense, and holding a Branch of Palm-tree in his Hand, accompanied with a Presbyter and Deacon, who assisted him, came near to me, and said, Peace be with thee, Brother, be not afraid, thou shalt not die until thou return in Prosperity to thy own See.  Rise and be healed, and dedicate this Altar to the Honour of God, and the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, whom thou seest standing before thee, with Masses of Thanksgiving.  Whereupon I was presently made whole.  And being about to accomplish that which I was commanded to do, they that were present said I was mad.  So I related all that I had seen, to them, to the King, and all his People, and how I had been cured; and I fulfilled all that I was bid to do.  These Things happen’d in the 753d Year, from the Incarnation of our Lord on the Ides of August; at which Time being strengthned by the Power of Christ, between the Celebration of the Consecration of the above-mention’d Altar, and the Oblation of the Sacrifice, I anointed King Pipin and his two Sons, Charles and Carloman, Kings of the Franks.  Moreover, I laid Hands upon, and blessed Bertranda the King’s Wife, cloathed with her Royal Mantle, and the Grace of the Sevenfold Holy Spirit:  And the Nobles of the Franks being sanctified by the Apostolical Benediction, and the Authority delivered by Christ to St. Peter, obliged themselves solemnly, and protested, That neither they, nor any of their Posterity, wou’d at any Time hereafter, presume to constitute any Person, as King over them, but only such as were of the Race of King Pipin.”