... holy candles. All the monks were kneeling except the abbot, who stood upon the altar steps with a great brazen crucifix in his hand. ... its white light; the eyes of the troopers turned upon it. The abbot whom they had thought dead had risen to his feet and now stood before ... fires!' And having so cried he fell on his face dead, and the brazen crucifix rolled down the steps of the altar. The smoke ...