There was a certain chamber sunk in the lower parts of the temple, having an entrance between the two porticoes that had been leveled, in which iron tools and other things necessary for the work were kept; out of it a sudden ball of fire flashed forth and, running through the middle of the open square, burning and killing the Jews who were present, was carried back and forth. Repeating this again and again, most frequently, throughout that whole day, it checked the rashness of the obstinate people with avenging flames. Meanwhile, all who were present, terrified by great fear and trembling, were driven, unwilling though they were, to confess Jesus Christ as the only true God.
And lest these things should be thought to happen by chance, on the following night there appeared on the garments of all so plain a sign of the Cross that even one who, in his unbelief, wished to wash it out could by no means erase it. Thus the Jews and the heathen, alike terrified, abandoned both the place and the vainly begun undertaking.