Lo and behold, God did hear the king.  For as the Cumans were about to cut him down, the ground parted.  They were suddenly separated from Ladislas by an unbridgeable chasm.  Just as God had parted the Red Sea to let Moses and his people escape, so now he parted the mountain to save King Ladislas.

The Mountain Crevice of Torda is still there today as a witness to this miracle.  It is said that the hoofprints of the king’s horse were visible for centuries.

One day the Cumans invaded Hungary again and attacked the beautiful city of Kolozsvar, the capital of the province of Transylvania. 

When King Ladislas heard about the fate of his beloved city, he immediately gathered his army and went against the Cumans.  As usual, he was victorious; the Cumans were cut down left and right, and even their leader was forced to flee.

At this critical moment, the Cuman leader decided to play a trick on the Magyars. He opened his gold-filled saddlebag and began to throw coins all around him as if sowing wheat.  He instructed his men to do the same.

He calculated right.  As soon as the Hungarian warriors saw all that gold on the ground, they gave up the chase.  They got off their horses, threw down their weapons, and began to gather the coins.  This was exactly what the Cumans were waiting for.  They turned back, hoping to decimate the disarmed Hungarian army.

Sensing the danger and unable to force his men to remount, King Ladislas again turned to God: “Please God, help me again that I may end this fight in victory!”

And sure enough, God performed a miracle once more.  The gold coins that lay scattered on the ground suddenly changed to stone.  At this, the Magyars remounted and quickly annihilated the Cumans.

These stones can still be seen in the countryside around the city of Kolozsvar.  They are flat, round pebbles known as Saint Ladislas’ Coins.

King Saint Ladislas was a brave and powerful man who stood a head taller than any of his men.  In times of war he was brave as a lion, and in times of peace he was pious as a shepherd.  His people often sang hymns about his virtues.