GREGORY: Neither would I be silent, Peter, about this which many now present here from the city of Narni earnestly testify to me. For in that same time of the Goths, when the aforesaid king Totila had come to Narni, Cassius, bishop of that same city, a man of venerable life, met him. Because his face was always accustomed to redden from a naturally ruddy complexion, king Totila believed this to be not from complexion but from constant drinking, and utterly despised him. But Almighty God, that He might show how great a man he was who was despised, in the field of Narni where the king had come, in the presence of his whole army an evil spirit seized a swordsman, and began cruelly to torment him.
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When he had been brought before the king's eyes to the venerable man Cassius, the man of the Lord, having made prayer, drove him out by the sign of the cross, and the spirit did not presume to enter into him any further. And so it came to pass that the barbarian king from that day venerated from his heart the servant of God, whom he had judged utterly despicable from his face. For because he saw a man of such great power, that fierce mind of his subsided from the arrogance of pride toward him.