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The imprisoned letter writers report how their hunger and thirst after the vision of the bowls were relieved through fellow Christians.
The next day after this vision we waited for the hour when the prison allowance would be carried in, and it was no food but want and need.We had no food left at all, for we had gone without eating the day before as well.
But as drink comes to the thirsty, food to the hungry, and martyrdom to those who long for it, so the Lord gave relief to our toils through our dearest Lucian.He broke through the hardest barrier of chains and, as if through two bowls, served unfailing nourishment to us all through Herennian the subdeacon and Januarius, a person preparing for baptism.That help held up the sick and those utterly worn out, and it even called back from weakness those who had already fallen ill through that same hardship, that is through the misery of the bare floor and the cold water.For his most glorious works we all give thanks before God.
Greek
IX. Altera die post hanc visionem expectantes eramus horam illam, quando fiscalis, non cibus, sed penuria et necessitas inferretur; quia cibus nullus nobis suberat, nam et altera die ieiuni manseramus. [Sicut?] autem ut sitientibus potus, esurientibus cibus, desiderantibus martyrium obvenit, ita laboribus nostris refrigerium dominus per Lucianum carissimum nobis praebuit, qui disrupto catenarum durissimo obice, velut per duas fialas, per Herennianum hypodiaconum et Ianuarium catecuminum alimentum indeficiens omnibus ministravit. hoc subsidium aegros et laborantes nimium suffulsit: eos quoque qui per eundem laborem, hoc est per incommodum solonis et frigidae aquae, aegritudinem iam inciderant, ab infirmitate revocavit. cuius tam gloriosis operibus omnes apud deum gratias agimus.