he converted them in the faith, and commanded them that they should bind his hands behind his back, and lead him so bound to the king.  And when the king saw him he was afeard and fell down off the seat, and his servants lifted him up and releved him again.  And then the king inquired his name and his country; and Christopher said to him:  Tofore or I was baptized I was named Reprobus, and after, I am Christopher; tofore baptism, a Canaanite, now, a Christian man.  To whom the king said:  Thou hast a foolish name, that is to wit of Christ crucified, which could not help himself, ne may not profit to thee.  How therefore, thou cursed Canaanite, why wilt thou not do sacrifice to our gods?  To whom Christopher said:  Thou art rightfully called Dagnus, for thou art the death of the world, and fellow of the devil, and thy gods be made with the hands of men.  And the king said to him:  Thou wert nourished among wild beasts, and therefore thou mayst not say but wild language, and words unknown to men.  And if thou wilt now do sacrifice to the gods I shall give to thee great gifts and great honors, and if not, I shall destroy thee and consume thee by great pains and torments.  But, for all this, he would in no wise do sacrifice, wherefore he was sent in to prison, and the king did do behead the other knights that he had sent for him, whom he had converted.

After this Christopher was brought tofore the king, and the king commanded that he should be beaten with rods of iron, and that there should be set upon his head a cross of iron red hot and burning, and then after, he did do make a siege or a stool of iron, and made Christopher to be bounden thereon, and after, to set fire under it, and cast therein pitch.  But the siege or settle melted like wax, and Christopher issued out without any harm or hurt.  And when the king saw that, he commanded that he should be bound to a strong stake, and that he should be through-shotten with arrows with forty knights archers.  But none of the knights might attain him, for the arrows hung in the air about, nigh him, without touching.  Then the king weened that he had been through-shotten with the arrows of the knights, and addressed him for to go to him.  And one of the arrows returned suddenly from the air and smote him in the eye, and blinded him.  To whom Christopher said:  Tyrant, I shall die to-morn, make a little clay, with my blood tempered, and anoint therewith thine eye, and thou shalt receive health.  Then by the commandment of the king he was led for to be beheaded, and then, there made he his orison, and his head was smitten off, and so suffered martyrdom.  And the king then took a little of his blood and laid it on his eye, and said:  In the name of God and of St. Christopher! and was anon healed.  Then the king believed in God, and gave commandment that if any person blamed God or St. Christopher, he should anon be slain with the sword.