There was also in the province of the Marsi another deacon of a most venerable life; whom, having found him, the Lombards seized, and one of them, drawing his sword, cut off his head. But when his body fell to the ground, the very one who had beheaded him, seized by an unclean spirit, collapsed at his feet, and, delivered over to the enemy of God, showed that he had killed a friend of God. PETER: What is this, I ask you, that almighty God thus permits those to die whom nevertheless, after death, He does not suffer to be hidden as to what holiness they were of?