The vision of a canon of Watten near St. Omer, northern France which preceded his miraculous recovery from a paralytic illness was recorded in 1091, three years after the event, by an anonymous colleague, and is appended to the Chronicle of Watten. Although the writer’s style is florid to the point of obscurity, the tale he tells is not, in outline, complex or unusual; it resembles scores of similar stories from this period. But we have in this instance the means to see the relation between the content of the vision and the writer’s interest in recording it.