If Eilward hadn’t been miraculously healed, he would almost certainly have had to beg for a living, as does the disabled man so sensitively pictured in the fifth scene of the story. Instead, Eilward can see his way to Canterbury, and in this final panel, he bows low over Becket’s tomb and he gives thanks to the saint for restoring the body parts he had lost. Two men look on behind him, their hands held out in wonder. Though this panel is heavily restored, the inscription is well preserved.

Not surprisingly, Eilward of Westoning’s miracle was the most renowned of Becket’s early cult. It inspired copycat miracles from Durham to Germany and was celebrated in the Office sung throughout Latin Christendom on Becket’s feast day. One of the responsories of this liturgy reads, “Thomas gleams with new miracles: he gives masculine members to the castrated, he grants sight to those deprived of eyes.”