The Life of S. Hilarion 35
35 PL 23, 47
35. The old man accompanied by Gazanus went on board a ship which was sailing to Sicily. Half way across the Adriatic he was preparing to pay his fare by selling a copy of the Gospels which he had written with his own hand in his youth, when the son of the master of the ship seized by a demon began to cry out and say: “Hilarion, servant of God, why is it that through you we cannot be safe even on the sea? Spare me a little until I reach land. Let me not be cast out here and thrown into the deep.” The saint replied: “If my God permit you to remain, remain; but if He casts you out, why bring odium upon me a sinner and a beggar?” This he said that the sailors and merchants on board might not betray him on reaching shore. Not long after, the boy was cleansed, his father and the rest who were present having given their word that they would not reveal the name of the saint to any one.
Evangeliorum codicem manu sua scripserat. --Habens igitur senex Gazanum secum, ascendit classem, quae Siciliam navigabat. Cumque venundato Evangeliorum codice, quem manu sua adolescens scripserat, dare naulum disponeret in medio ferme Adriae, naucleri filius arreptus a daemone, clamare coepit, et dicere: Hilarion serve Dei, cur nobis per te et in pelato tutos esse non licet? Da mihi spatium donec ad terram veniam, ne hic ejectus, praecipiter in abyssum. Cui ille: Si Deus meus, ait, tibi concedit ut maneas, mane; sin autem ille te ejicit, quid mihi invidiam facis, 34 homini peccatori atque mendico? Hoc autem dicebat, ne nautae et negotiatores qui in navi erant, se, cum ad terram pervenissent, proderent. Nec multo post purgatus est puer, patre fidem dante, et caeteris qui aderant, nulli se super ejus nomine locuturos.