There was moreover in that council also Paphnutius, a man of God, a bishop from the regions of Egypt, a Confessor from among those whom Maximian had condemned to the mines, with their right eyes gouged out and their left knee-tendons cut. But in this man so great a grace of virtues was present that signs were wrought through him no less than once through the Apostles. For he put demons to flight by a word alone, and healed the sick by prayer alone; he is even said to have restored sight to the blind, and to have recalled paralytics to bodily soundness. Constantine held him in such great veneration and affection that he often summoned him within the palace and embraced him, and with eager kisses caressed that eye which had been torn out in the confession of the faith.