Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.
that when face cloths or aprons that touched his skin were applied to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. The Jewish Exorcists.
Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them.