A certain religious and most faithful man related to me, while I was still living in the monastery, that some men from the parts of Sicily, journeying by ship toward Rome, being in the midst of the sea, saw the soul of a certain servant of God—who had been enclosed as a recluse in Samnium—carried up with an iron collar about his neck. When they had descended to land, and searched out whether it had so come to pass, they found that the servant of God had died on that same day on which they had known him to ascend to the heavenly kingdom.