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Life of St Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza
Mark the Deacon, tr. Hill, 1913
Chapter 82
But we beheld a great marvel; for the three were found to have marks shaped like to a cross, as it were scratched with a needle, the one in the midst of his forehead, the second upon his right hand about his fingers, and the other on his right shoulder. And the little crosses were fairly fashioned, neither crooked nor awry, but of one measure, so that they were manifest signs of God; for neither did they cause any pain to the children, nor was there any blood, but they were as it were stamped with vermilion. And they remained on them a sufficient time that all might see and marvel; for many also of the strangers when they beheld them believed.