1. Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of the cohort which is called Italian,
2. a devout man, fearing God with all his house, giving many alms to the people, and praying to God continually.
3. This man saw in a vision clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, the Angel of God entering to him and saying to him: "Cornelius!"