{"slug":"stoa0143.stoa002.opp-lat2","id":"latin:ogl-pl:stoa0143.stoa002.opp-lat2","title":"De Miraculis Sancti Martini Episcopi","title_source":"De Miraculis Sancti Martini Episcopi","author":"Gregorius Turonensis Episcopus","genre":"hagiography","date":"","tradition":"latin","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. 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De quibus primus ille Severus Sulpicius a, cui tantus fervor amoris fuit in Sanctum Dei, ut eo adhuc degente in sæculo, unum librum de Mirabilibus vitæ ejus scriberet, exinde post transitum beati viri duos libros scripsit, quos Dialogos voluit vocitari. In quibus nonnulla de virtutibus eremitarum, anachoretarumve, referente Posthumiano, inseruit. Sed in nullo inferiorem nostrum potuit reperire Martinum, quem apostolis sanctisque prioribus exaequavit, ita ut etiam diceret, felicem quidem Graeciam, quæ meruit audire Apostolum praedicantem; sed nec Gallias a Christo derelictas, quibus donavit Dominus habere Martinum.","english":"OF SAINT GEORGE FLORENTIUS GREGORY, BISHOP OF TOURS, FOUR BOOKS ON THE MIRACLES OF SAINT MARTIN THE BISHOP.\n\nBOOK ONE.\n\nCHAPTER ONE.\n\nThat Severus wrote the Life of Saint Martin.\n\nThere are many who have written down the virtues of Saint Martin, whether in verse or in prose. The first of these was that Severus Sulpicius, whose fervor of love for the saint of God was so great that, while he was still living in this world, he wrote one book concerning the wonders of his life, and afterward, after the blessed man's passing, he wrote two books which he wished to be called Dialogues. In these he inserted several accounts of the virtues of hermits and anchorites, as related by Posthumianus. But in no one could he find Martin to be inferior, whom he equated with the apostles and the saints of old, so that he even said that Greece was indeed fortunate, which deserved to hear the Apostle preaching; but neither were the Gauls forsaken by Christ, to whom the Lord granted to have Martin.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":". CAPUT 11.\n\nQuod eamdem vitam beatus Paulinus versu composuit.\n\nPaulinus quoque beatus, Nolanae urbis episcopus d, post scriptos versus de virtutibus ejus, quas Severus prosa complexus est, quinque Iibros, illa comprehendit miracula quæ post ejus gesta sunt transitum, id est, in sexto operis sui libro. Ait enim: Cum energumeni per cancellus basilicae veherentur volatu aereo, et saepe in puteum qui in ipsa habetur basilica, impulsu daemonis jactarentur abstracti, exinde illsesi, populis spectantibus, sunt resumpti. Idque in eodem puteo, et nostris temporibus vidimus gestum. Alius quoque daemon acquisitum vasculum praecipitem duxit ad amnem, quasi praedam, quam ceperat, demersurus [Ed., dimissurus]. Sed non defuit perituro beati Confessoris auxilium. Nam ingressus in flumen, et ulteriorem ripam pe. tens, nihil nocumenti accepit, sed siccis e est etiam vestimentis egressus: cumque ad cellulam Majoris monasterii pervenisset, mundatus apparuit. Hunc etiam testatur • multas voces Emittere solitum, ae lingua gentium incognitarum saepissime loqui, tenluraque fateri, et crimina confiteri. Sed, ut diximus, postquam limen Sancti attigit, sanus abscessit. Egidius a quoque cum obsideretur ab hostibus, et excluso a se solatio, turbatus impugnaretur, per invocationem beati Viri, fugatis hostibus liberatus est.","english":"CHAPTER 11.\n\nThat the blessed Paulinus also composed the same life in verse.\n\nThe blessed Paulinus also, bishop of the city of Nola, after the verses he wrote concerning his virtues, which Severus set forth in prose, included in five books those miracles which happened after his deeds and passing, that is, in the sixth book of his work. For he says: When demoniacs were being carried through the railings of the basilica in aerial flight, and often, by the impulse of the demon, were torn away and cast into the well which is in that same basilica, they were afterward taken up unharmed, with the people looking on. And we have seen this done in that same well even in our own times. Another demon, too, dragged a vessel it had acquired headlong to the river, as if about to plunge into it the prey it had seized. But the help of the blessed Confessor did not fail the one who was about to perish. For entering the river and seeking the farther bank, he received no harm, but came out even with his garments dry; and when he had reached the cell of the monastery of Majoris, he appeared cleansed. This man, too, Paulinus testifies, was accustomed to utter many cries, and very often to speak in the tongue of unknown peoples, and to confess the temptations and confess his crimes. But, as we have said, after he touched the threshold of the Saint, he departed sound. Egidius also, when he was besieged by enemies and, with comfort shut off from him, was troubled and assailed, was freed by the invocation of the blessed Man, once his enemies were put to flight.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":3,"ref":"p3","source":"Idque daemoniacus in medio basilicae, ipsa hora qua gestum fuerat, est professus sancti Martini obtentu boc fuisse concessum. Puella quaedam paralysis humore gravata, et, quod pejus est, errore cultus fanatici involuta, Beati sepulcrum expetiit, vigiliisque celebratis, sanitati est reddita. Rursum autem ad idololatriae vomitum revocata, languorem, quo obleDtu beati Poutificis caruerat, iterato incurrit. Chunus quidam rabidus, instinctu dæmonis acctus, coronam sepulcri quae Sancti meritum declarabat, violenter arripuit. Mox lumine pri'atus, praedam, cogente dolore, restituit, lumenque quod perdiderat recepit. Quidam vero a tentatore commotus, prolato gladio, cum quemdam ferire conaretur in atrio Confessoris, protinus ira in se retorta, veloci judicio Dei prosequente, ipso se mucrone perfodit. Denique cum populus ad Beati templi ornatum columnas deferre cuperet gaudens, quidam vir, qui operi buic invidus et contrarius fuit, in alveum eiclusum multa minabatur, pro eo quod solatium aliquod ad plaustra petentibus non praeberet 6. Cumque superbus equum feriret, in parvo fluviolo præcipitatus, in sinu aqua- rum gurgitis, ictibus suis suffocatus interiit. Tunc juvene praecedente, columnae usque ad beatum templum delatae sunt. Quoties etiam ad beatum sepulcrum oleum fuisset positum, referunt illud vidisse adauctum.","english":"And the demoniac confessed in the middle of the basilica, at the very hour in which it had happened, that this had been granted through the intercession of Saint Martin. A certain girl, weighed down by the fluid of paralysis and, what is worse, entangled in the error of fanatical worship, sought the blessed man's tomb, and after vigils had been celebrated, she was restored to health. But when she had been recalled again to the vomit of idolatry, she incurred a second time the illness from which she had been freed by the blessed Pontiff's favor. A certain rabid Hun, driven by the instigation of a demon, violently seized the crown of the tomb which declared the Saint's merit. Soon deprived of light, he restored the plunder under compulsion of pain, and received back the light he had lost. But a certain man, stirred up by the tempter, drew his sword and, when he attempted to strike someone in the atrium of the Confessor, his anger was straightway turned back upon himself, and with the swift judgment of God following, he pierced himself through with that same blade. Then, when the people joyfully desired to bring columns for the adornment of the blessed temple, a certain man who was envious of and opposed to this work, shut up in his boat, threatened many things because he did not provide any assistance to those seeking help for the wagons. And when in his pride he struck his horse, he was hurled headlong into a small stream, and in the bosom of the watery gulf, suffocated by his own blows, he died. Then, with a young man going ahead, the columns were carried all the way to the blessed temple. Also, as often as oil had been placed at the blessed tomb, they report that they saw it increased.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":4,"ref":"p4","source":"Sanctus vero Perpetuus episcopus, merito Beati discipulus praeconandus, ampullam cum oleo ad sanctum tumulum detulit, ut eum [ Id est, id; Ed., eam] virtus justi infusa sanctificaret. Et eraso a marmore, quo sancta membra teguntur, pulvere, ac liquori permixto, ex quo in tantum oleum redundavit, ut vestimentum sacerdotis nectareo etrragrans odore, oleagina unda perfunderetur. Multique ex hoc infirmi experiere salutem. Sed et procellae ab agris hoc liquore purificatis i saepe prohibitae sunt. Cum autem ad templum sanctum quidam devotus fide plenos accessisset, et gratiam Sancti sitiens, cogitaret quid de beata aede raperet ad salutem, prope sepulcrum accedens, aedituum supplicat, ut sibi parumper benedictae cerae largiretur e tumulo. Quam accipiens laetus abscessit; ei agro, cui frugem severat, confisus imposuit. Adveniens autem tempestas saevissima, quae ticiniam J in annis praecedentibus saepe vastaverat, ab hac est prohibita benedictione, nec ibidem ultra, uti consueverat, nocuit. Magnifica vero atque desiderabili paschali festivitate adveniente, populus ad Beati cellulam, in qua commoratus saepe frequentaverat cum angelis, devotus advenit.","english":"But the holy bishop Perpetuus, rightly to be proclaimed a disciple of the Blessed one, brought a flask of oil to the holy tomb, so that the power of the righteous man poured into it might sanctify it. And when the dust had been scraped from the marble that covers the holy limbs and mixed into the liquid, the oil overflowed from it to such an extent that the priest's garment, fragrant with a nectar-like odor, was drenched with a wave of oil. And many sick persons recovered health from this. Indeed, storms were often kept away from the fields purified by this liquid. But when a certain devout man full of faith had come to the holy church, and thirsting for the grace of the Saint, was considering what he might take away from the blessed shrine for healing, drawing near to the tomb, he begged the sacristan to grant him for a little while some of the blessed wax from the tomb. Taking it, he departed joyful; he placed it with confidence on the field in which he had sown his crop. But when a most savage storm came, which in previous years had often laid waste the crop in that region, it was kept away by this blessing, and it did no harm there any longer, as it had been accustomed to do. And when the magnificent and longed-for festival of Easter arrived, the people came devoutly to the blessed one's little cell, in which he had often dwelt with angels.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":5,"ref":"p5","source":"Et singula loca allambens osculis, vel irrigans lacrymis, in qua vir beatus ante sederat, aut oraverat, sive ubi cibum sumpserat, vel corpori quietem post multos labores indulserat, classe navium praeparata, amnem transire parat, ut beatum sepulcrum adeat, et cum fletu veniam deprecans, coram Confessore se prosternat. Navigantibus autem illis, tentatoris impulsu commoto vento, classis in profundo demergitur, et sexus uterque ab amne diripitur. Cumque inter procellas fluctuum rotarentur, et spes omnis e.vadendi deperisset, una omnium vox in clamore profertur, dicens: Miserator Martine, eripe a praesenti interitu famulos famulasque tuas! His dictis, ecce afflatus aurae placidus artus submersorum sobvebens ab undis illaesos, omnes littori, quod desiderabant, unda famulante, restituit: nec ullus deperiit; sed cuncti salvati, paschalia festa summa cum exsultatione perfuncti suut. Non enim defuit illa virtus, quae Jordanem scindens, populum sub aquarum molibus margine arente traduxit, cum de fundo fluvii duodecim lapides ablatos signa apostolica gestientes Josue littori cui advenerat c'onsecravit; vel illa quae Petrum pereuntem pia amplectens dextera, ne periret, eripuit; vel quae nautam submersorum, Martini Dominum invocantem i, de profundo pelagi ad littus quod optabat elicuit.","english":"And kissing and bedewing with tears each place where the blessed man had sat or prayed, or where he had taken food, or had given rest to his body after many labors, having prepared a fleet of ships, he makes ready to cross the river, so that he might approach the blessed tomb and, begging pardon with weeping, prostrate himself before the Confessor. But as they were sailing, the wind being stirred up by the impulse of the tempter, the fleet is sunk in the deep, and both sexes are torn away by the river. And when they were being whirled about amid the storms of the waves, and all hope of escaping had perished, one voice from all is raised in a cry, saying: O merciful Martin, snatch your servants, men and women, from the present destruction! At these words, behold, a gentle breath of air, lifting up the limbs of the drowned from the waves unharmed, restored them all to the shore they desired, with the wave serving them: nor did any one perish; but all were saved, and passed the paschal feast with the greatest exultation. For that power was not lacking which, dividing the Jordan, led the people through beneath the masses of waters with the riverbank dry, when Joshua, taking twelve stones from the bed of the river and bearing the apostolic signs, consecrated them on the shore to which he had come; or that power which, embracing the perishing Peter with its pious right hand, snatched him lest he perish; or which drew the sailor of the drowned, invoking the Lord of Martin, from the deep of the sea to the shore he desired.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":6,"ref":"p6","source":"Quidam pro benedictione aliquid de sancta aede assumere flagitans, aliquid [Ed., parum] cerae de sepulcro Sancti accepit, et infra penetralia domus tanquam thesauram cœlestem reposuit. Factum est autem, ut invidia tentatoris immissum incendium domus voraci flamma circumureretur, et sparsum per aridas tabulas cuncta vastaret. Interea clamor ad coelum tollitur, et beati Martini auxilium imploratur. Meminit a ille etiam ceræ particulæ a Sancti templo delatæ. Quae reperta, et igni injecta, protinus cunctum restinxit incendium, novoque miraculo cera, quae ignem alere erat solita, violentiam ignis vi sanctitatis oppressit. Hæc Paulinus in sexto operis sui libro verso conscripsit, accepto a sancto Perpetuo episcopo de his indiculo. Verum cum ad eum hujus indiculi charta venisset, nepos ejus gravi tenebatur incommodo. At ille confisus in virtute Sancti: Si tibi, inquit, placet, beate Martine, ut aliquid in tua laude conscribam, appareat super hunc infirmum.Impositaque charta pectori ejus, extemplo recedente febre sanatus est, qui erat aegrotus b. Sed et Fortunatus presbyter omne opus Vitæ ejus in quatuor libris versu conscripsit.","english":"A certain man, seeking for a blessing to take something from the holy shrine, received a little wax from the tomb of the Saint and stored it within the inner chambers of his house as a heavenly treasure. It happened, however, that by the envy of the tempter a fire was kindled and the house was encircled by devouring flame, and spreading through the dry timbers it laid everything waste. Meanwhile a cry is raised to heaven, and the aid of the blessed Martin is implored. He remembered also the little piece of wax brought from the Saint's temple. This was found and thrown into the fire, and it immediately extinguished the whole conflagration, and by a new miracle the wax, which was accustomed to feed fire, suppressed the violence of the fire by the power of holiness. Paulinus wrote these things in the sixth book of his work in verse, having received a brief account of them from the holy bishop Perpetuus. But when the document of this brief account had come to him, his grandson was held by a grievous affliction. And he, trusting in the power of the Saint, said: If it pleases you, blessed Martin, that I should write something in your praise, let it appear upon this sick one. And having laid the document upon his breast, with the fever immediately departing he was healed, who had been sick. But also the priest Fortunatus wrote the whole work of his Life in four books in verse.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":7,"ref":"p7","source":"His nos exemplis illecti, etsi imperiti, tentabimus tamen atiqua de virtutibus sanCti et beatissimi Martini, quae post ejus obitum actse sunt, quantum invenire possumus, memoriæ replicare: quia hoc erit scribendi studium, quod in illo Severi aut Paulini opere non invenitur insertum.\n\nCAPUT III.\n\nDe ordinatione et transitu beati Martini.\n\nLucidus, et toto orbe renitens gloriosus domnus Martinus, decedente jam mundo, solc novus exoriens, sicut anterior narrat Historia, aPud Salariam Pannoni;e ortus, ad salvationem Galliarum, opitulante Deo, dirigitur. Quas virtutibus ac signis illustrans, in urbe Turonica episcopatus honorem invitus, populo cogente, suscepit: in quo gioriosam, et pene inimitabilem agens vitam, per quinquennia quinque bis insuper geminis mensibus cum decem dicbus, octogesimo primo aetatis suæ anno, Caesario et Attico consulibus, nocte media quievit in pace. Gloriosum ergo, et toti mundo laudabilem ejus transitum in die Dominica fuisse manifestissimum est, idque in sequenti certis testimoniis comprobabimus. Quod non parvi meriti fuisse censetur, ut illa die eum Dominus in paradiso susciperet, qua idem Dominus et Redemptor, victor ab inferis surrexisset; et, ut qui Dominica solemnia semper celebraverat impollute, post mundi pressuras Dominica die locaretur in requie.-","english":"Drawn by these examples, though unskilled, we shall nevertheless attempt to recount to memory, as far as we are able to discover, certain of the virtues of the holy and most blessed Martin which were performed after his death: because this will be the zeal of writing which is not found inserted in that work of Severus or Paulinus.\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nConcerning the ordination and passing of the blessed Martin.\n\nLucidus and glorious throughout the whole world, the lord Martin, as the world was already passing away, rising like a new sun, as the earlier History narrates, born at Sabaria in Pannonia, is directed, with God's help, to the salvation of the Gauls. Illustrating them with virtues and signs, in the city of Tours he received, unwilling, with the people compelling him, the honor of the episcopate: in which, leading a glorious and almost inimitable life, for five five-year periods, with twice two months besides and ten days, in the eighty-first year of his age, in the consulship of Caesarius and Atticus, at midnight he rested in peace. It is therefore most manifest that his glorious and praiseworthy-to-the-whole-world passing was on the Lord's Day, and this we shall prove in what follows by certain testimonies. And it is reckoned to have been of no small merit that the Lord received him into paradise on that day on which the same Lord and Redeemer had risen victorious from the dead; and that he who had always celebrated the Lord's solemnities undefiled should, after the pressures of the world, be placed in rest on the Lord's Day.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":8,"ref":"p8","source":"CAPUT IV.\n\nQualiter sancto Severino episcopo psallentium de eju transitu revelatum esu\n\nBeatus autem Severinus Coloniensis civitatis episcopus, vir honestae vitae, et per cuncta laudabilis, dum die Dominica loca sancta ex consuetudine post matutinos hymnos e cum suis clericis circumiret, illa hora qua Beatus obiit, audivit chorum canentium in sublimi. Vocatumque archidiaconum interrogavit si aures ejus percuterent voces quas ille attentus audiret. Respondit: Nequaquam. Tunc ille: Diligentius, inquit, ausculta. Archidiaconus autem coepit sursum collum extendere, aures erigere, et super summos articulos, baculo sustentante, stare. Sed credo eum non fuisse æqualis meriti, a quo naec non merebantur audiri. Tunc prostrati terrae, ipse pariter et beatus episcopus, Dominum deprecantur, ut hoc ei divina pietas audire permitteret. Erectis autem, rursum interrogat senex: Quid audist Qui ait: Voces psallentium tanquam in cœlo audio, sed quid sit prorsus ignoro. Cui ille: Ego tibi quid sit narrabo. Dominus meus Martinus episcopus migravit ex hoc mundo; et nunc Angeli canendo eum deferunt in excelsum. Et ut parumper morae esset, ut haec audirentur, diabolus eum cum iniquis angelis reiinere tentavit, nihilque suum in eodem reperiens, confusus abscessit. Quid ergo de nobis pecca toribus erit, si tanto sacerdoti voluit 'pars inimica [Al., iniquaj nocere?","english":"CHAPTER IV.\n\nHow the passing of the saint was revealed to the blessed bishop Severinus by those singing.\n\nBut the blessed Severinus, bishop of the city of Cologne, a man of honorable life and praiseworthy in all things, while on the Lord's day he was going around the holy places according to custom after the morning hymns with his clerics, at that hour at which the blessed one died, he heard a choir of singers on high. And having summoned the archdeacon, he asked whether the voices which he himself heard attentively struck his ears. He answered: By no means. Then he said: Listen more carefully. But the archdeacon began to stretch his neck upward, to prick up his ears, and to stand on the very tips of his toes, supported by his staff. But I believe that he was not of equal merit, by whom these things did not deserve to be heard. Then, having prostrated themselves on the ground, both he and the blessed bishop together beseech the Lord that divine piety permit him to hear this. But when they had risen, the old man again asks: What did you hear? He said: I hear the voices of those singing as if in heaven, but what it is I do not know at all. To whom he said: I will tell you what it is. My lord Martin the bishop has departed from this world; and now angels are carrying him on high with singing. And so that there might be a little delay, so that these things might be heard, the devil with his wicked angels tried to hold him back, and finding nothing of his own in him, he went away confounded. What then will there be for us sinners, if the enemy part wished to harm so great a priest?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":9,"ref":"p9","source":"Haec sacerdote loquente notavit tempus archidiaconus, et Turonos misit velociter, qui haec diligenter inquireret. Qui veniens, eo die et hora manifestissime cognovit transisse beatum Martinum, quo sanctus Severinus audivit psallentium chorum. Sed et si ad Severi recurramus Historiam, ipsa hora eum sibi scripsit in libro vitae suae fuisse revelatum.\n\nCAPUT V.\n\nQualiter beato Ambrosio idem transitus est ostensus.\n\nEo namque tempore beatus Ambrosius, cujus hodie flores eloquii per totam Ecclesiam redolent, Mediolanensi civitati praeerat episcopus. Cui celebrandi festa Dominicae diei ista erat consuetudo, ut veniens lector cum libro suo non antea legere praesumeret quam Sanctus nutu jussisset. Factum est autem ut illa die Dominica, prophetica lectione recitata, jam lectore ante altare stante, qui lectionem beati Pauli proferret, beatissimus antistes Ambrosius super sanctum altare obdormiret. Quod videntes multi, cum nullus eum penitus excitare praesumeret, transactis fere duarum aut trium horarum spatiis, excitaverunt eum, dicentes: Jam hora praeterit. Jubcat domnus lectori lectionem legere; exspectat enim populus valde jam lassus. Respondens autem beatus Ambrosius: Nolite, inquit, turbari. Multum enim mihi valet sic obdormisse, cui tale miraculum Dominus ostendere dignatus est.","english":"While the priest was saying this, the archdeacon noted the time and swiftly sent men to Tours to inquire carefully into the matter. When they arrived, they learned most clearly that the blessed Martin had passed away on that very day and hour on which Saint Severinus heard the choir singing. Moreover, if we turn to the History of Severus, he himself wrote that it was revealed to him in the book of life at that same hour.\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nHow the same passing was shown to the blessed Ambrose.\n\nAt that time the blessed Ambrose, whose flowers of eloquence are fragrant throughout the whole Church today, was bishop over the city of Milan. He had this custom for celebrating the Lord's day: when the lector came with his book, he would not presume to read before the saint had ordered it by a nod. It happened, then, that on that Lord's day, after the prophetic reading had been recited, with the lector already standing before the altar who was to bring forth the reading of the blessed Paul, the most blessed bishop Ambrose fell asleep over the holy altar. Many saw this, and since no one at all dared to wake him, after a space of nearly two or three hours had passed, they woke him, saying: The hour has already passed. Let my lord bid the lector read the reading; for the people are waiting and are by now very weary. But the blessed Ambrose answered, saying: Do not be disturbed. For this sleep has greatly benefited me, to whom the Lord has deigned to show such a miracle.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":10,"ref":"p10","source":"Nam noveritis fratrem meum Martinum sacerdotem egressum fuisse de corpore, me autem ejus funeri obsequium præbuisse, peractoque ex more servitio, capitellum tantum, vobis excitantibus, non explevi. Tunc illi stupefacti, pariterque admirantes, diein et tempus notant, sollicite requirentes. Qui ipsam diem tempusque transitus Sancti repererunt, quod beatus Confessor dixerat se ejus exsequiis deservisse. beatum virum, in cujus transitu sanctorum canit numerus, angelorum exsultat chorus, omniumque coelestium virtutum occurrit exercitus: diabolus praesumptione confunditur, Ecclesia virtute roboratur, sacerdotes revelatione glorificantur; quem Michael assumpsit cum angelis, Maria suscepit cum virginum choris, paradisus retinet lætum cum sanctis! Sed quid nos in laudem ejus tentamus, quod non sufticimus aJimplere? Ipse est cnim laus illius, cujus laus ab ejus ore nunquam recessit. Nam nos utinam vel simplicem possimus historiam explicare \".","english":"For know that my brother Martin the priest has departed from the body, and that I performed the office of his funeral, and when the service had been completed according to custom, I did not finish the little cap, as you urge me. Then they, astounded and likewise marveling, noted the day and the time, carefully inquiring. And they found that it was the very day and time of the saint's passing, which the blessed confessor had said he had attended in his obsequies. The blessed man, at whose passing the number of the saints sings, the chorus of angels exults, and the army of all the heavenly powers runs to meet him: the devil is confounded by his presumption, the Church is strengthened by his virtue, priests are glorified by the revelation; whom Michael received with the angels, Mary welcomed with the choirs of virgins, paradise holds him joyful with the saints! But why do we attempt to speak in his praise, when we are not able to accomplish it? For he himself is his praise, whose praise never departed from his mouth. For would that we might be able to set forth even a simple history.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":11,"ref":"p11","source":"CAPUT VI.\n\nDe translatione beati corporis sancti Marlini.\n\nOperae pretium est enim etiam illud inserere lectioni, qualiter sanctum ejus corpusculum in locum ubi nunc adoratur fuerit, angelo annuente, translatum. Anno sexagesimo quarto post transitum gloriosi domni Martini, beatus Perpetuus Turonicæ sedis cathedram sortitus est dignitatis. Adeptusque hunc apicem, cum magno devotorum consensu, fundamenta templi, ampliora quam fuerant, super beata membra locare disposuit; quod sagaci insistens studio, mirifice mancipavit effectui. De qua fabrica multum quod loqueremur erat; sed quia praesens est, conticere exinde melius putavimus e. Adveniente ergo optato tempore Sacerdoti ut templum dedicaretur, et sanctum corpusculum a loco ubi sepultum fuerat transferretur, convocavit beatus Perpetuus ad diem festum vicinos pontifices, sed et abbatum ac diversorum clericorum non minimam multitudinem. Et quia hoc in Kalendis Julii agere volebat, vigilata una nocte, facto mane, accepto sarculo, terram quae super sanctum erat tumulum eæperunt effodere. Quo detecto, manus, ut eum commoverent, injiciunt, ibique multitudo tota laborans, nibil prorsus per lotam diem profecit. Vigilata denique alia nocte, mane tentantes, nihil omnino agere potuerunt. Tunc conturbati atque exterriti, quid facerem nesciebant.","english":"CHAPTER VI.\n\nConcerning the translation of the blessed body of Saint Martin.\n\nFor it is worthwhile also to include in our reading how his holy little body was, with the angel's consent, translated to the place where it is now adored. In the sixty-fourth year after the passing of the glorious lord Martin, the blessed Perpetuus obtained the chair of the dignity of the see of Tours. And having attained this summit, with the great consent of the devoted faithful, he resolved to lay the foundations of a temple, larger than they had been, over the blessed limbs; and applying himself to this with keen zeal, he wondrously brought it to completion. Concerning this building there was much that we might say; but because it stands before us, we have thought it better to be silent about it. Therefore, when the desired time had come for the priest that the temple should be dedicated and the holy little body should be transferred from the place where it had been buried, the blessed Perpetuus summoned for the feast day the neighboring bishops, and also no small multitude of abbots and various clerics. And because he wished to do this on the Kalends of July, after keeping vigil one night, at daybreak they took up a hoe and began to dig out the earth that was over the holy tomb. When it was uncovered, they laid hands on it to move it, and there the whole multitude laboring accomplished nothing at all through the whole day. Then, after keeping vigil another night, trying in the morning, they could do nothing whatsoever. Then, disturbed and terrified, they did not know what to do.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":12,"ref":"p12","source":"Dicit eis unus ex clericis: Sciatis quia post hoc triduum natalis episcopatus ejus esse consueverat: et forsitan in bac die so transferri debere vos admonet. Tunc jejuniis, ac orationibus, et jugi psallentio [Ed., silentio] die noctuque insistentes, triduum illud continuatim duxerunt. Quarta autem die accedentes, ponentesque manus, non valebant penitus movere sepulcrum. Pavore autem omnes exterriti, jam in hoc stantes, at terra vasculum quod detexerant operirent, apparuit eis veneranda canitie senex, ad instar nivis candorem efferens, dicens se esse abbatem, et ait eis: Usquequo conturbamini, et tardatis? Non videtis domnum Martinum stantetn vos juvare paratum, si manus apponitis? Tunc jactans pallium, quo utebatur, posuit manum ad sarcophagum cum reliquis sacerdotibus, crucibus paratis, ac cereis, impositaque antiphona, dederunt cuncti voces psallentium in ex.. celso. Tum ad senis conatum protinus sarcophagum cum summa levitate commotum, in Ioco, ubi nunc adoratur, Domino annuente, perducitur. Quo ad voluntatem i, Al., votum] sacerdotis composito, dictis etiam missis, ut ventum est ad convivium h, requirentes sollicite sencm, nequaquam reperiunt. Sed nec homo quidem exstitit, qui eum de basilica exire vidisset. Credo aliquam fuisse virtutem angelicam, quae et beatum virum se vidisse pronuntiavit, et deinceps nulli comparuit.","english":"One of the clerics said to them: \"Know that after this third day the anniversary of his episcopate has customarily fallen, and perhaps he admonishes you that on this day he ought to be translated.\" Then, persisting in fasts and prayers and continual psalmody day and night, they spent those three days without interruption. On the fourth day, however, approaching and laying hands on it, they were wholly unable to move the tomb. But when all were struck with terror, and were already standing at this point, about to cover again with earth the vessel they had uncovered, there appeared to them an aged man of venerable white hair, bringing forth whiteness like snow, saying that he was an abbot, and he said to them: \"How long will you be troubled and delay? Do you not see lord Martin standing ready to help you, if you put your hands to it?\" Then, throwing down the pallium he was wearing, he placed his hand on the sarcophagus with the rest of the priests, with crosses and candles made ready, and the antiphon having been imposed, they all raised their voices in psalmody on high. Then at the old man's effort the sarcophagus was at once moved with the utmost ease, and by the Lord's consent it was brought to the place where it is now adored. When it had been arranged according to the priest's wish, and masses had also been said, when they came to the banquet, seeking the old man carefully, they found him nowhere. Indeed, there was no one at all who had seen him leave the basilica. I believe there was some angelic power, which both declared that it had seen the blessed man and thereafter appeared to no one.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":13,"ref":"p13","source":"In quo loco ex illa die multae virtutes factae sunt, quae per negligentiam non sunt scripta;. Nos vero quantum tempore nostro aut fieri vidimus, aut factum certe cognovimus, silere nequivimus.\n\n'CAPUT VII.\n\nDe Theodemundo muto.\n\nAdveniens juvenis quidam, Theodemundus a nomine, audiendi loquendique obstructo aditu, quotidianis diebus ad sanctam basilicam recurrebat, et inclinans se ad orationem, labia tantum movebat. Nam nullam poterat vocem emittere sensu integro, sed erat multatus vocis officio. Qui tam prompte videbatur orare, ut flere cerneretur inter ipsa tacita verba plerumque. Cui si quis pro mercedis respectu aliquid eleemosynae contulisset, continuo hoc similibus pauperibus erogabat, et stipem ab aliis nutu postulans, stipendia indigentibus porrigebat. Cumque in loco illo sancto in hac devotione per trium annorum spatia commoratus fuisset [ Bel., orarum, quadam die a divina pietate commonitus, venit ante sanctum altare; et stans oculis ad coelum elevatis et manibus, erupit ab ore illius rivus sanguinis cum putredine. Et conspuens in terram, coepit graviter gemere, et excreare partes nescio quas cum sanguine, ita ut putaretur quod aliquis ferramento guttur ejus incideret. Sed et tabes ex ore illius tanquam fila sanguinea dependebat.","english":"In that place, from that day, many miracles were performed which have not been written down through negligence; but we have been unable to keep silent about as many as we either saw happen in our own time or certainly learned had happened.\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nConcerning Theodemundus the mute.\n\nA certain young man came, Theodemundus by name, with the passage for hearing and speaking blocked; he kept running back day after day to the holy basilica, and bowing down in prayer, he moved only his lips. For he could utter no voice, though his mind was sound, but he was afflicted in the function of speech. He seemed to pray so earnestly that he was often seen to weep amid those silent words. If anyone, out of regard for a reward, gave him something in alms, he immediately distributed it to similar poor people, and asking a coin from others by a nod, he handed out payments to the needy. And when he had stayed in that holy place in this devotion for the space of three years, one day, admonished by divine mercy, he came before the holy altar; and standing with his eyes raised to heaven and his hands, there burst from his mouth a stream of blood with putrid matter. And spitting on the ground, he began to groan heavily and to cough up certain parts, I know not what, with blood, so that it seemed as if someone were cutting his throat with a blade. But also a foul discharge hung from his mouth like bloody threads.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":14,"ref":"p14","source":"Tunc disruptis aurium ac faucium ligaturis, elevans se, et erigens iterum [Gat., interim] oculos et manus ad coelum, ore adhuc cruento in hanc primum vocem prorupit: Gratias tibi magnas refero, beatissime domne Marline, quod aperiens os meum, fecisti me post longum tempus in tuas laudes verba laxare. Admirante autem omni populo, et stupente de tali miraculo, interrogant si et auditum pariter recepisset. Qui Iibere omnia audire, populo testante respondit b. Sanitati ergo sic redditus; a Chrodechilde regina pro virtute reverentiaque sancti Martini collectus est, et ad scholam positus, omnem psalmorum seriem memoriae commendavit. Quem Deus perfectum efficiens clericum, per multos in posterum annos in servitio Ecclesiæ commorari permisit.\n\nCAPUT VIII.\n\nDe Chainemunda muliere cæca.\n\nMulier quaedam, nomine Chainemunda c, oculorum luce privata, nesciens visu tenere viam, nisi alio ducente, devota valde et fide plena, venit ad venerabile templum beati Martini antistitis. Erat aulem non solum, ut diximus, caeca, sed etiam toto corpore ulceribus plena. Obsederat enim omnia membra ejus putredo cum pustulis, et erat miserabili facie, et horribilis ad videndum, ut tamquam leprosa putaretur a populo. Cumque palpando diebus singulis ad aedem gloriosi Præsulis cursitaret d, post tres fere annos, stante ea ante sepulcrum, aperti sunt oculi ejus, ita ut cuncta clare prospiceret.","english":"Then, the bindings of his ears and throat having been broken, he raised himself up and again lifted his eyes and hands to heaven, and with his mouth still bloody he first broke forth into this utterance: I give you great thanks, most blessed lord Martin, because, opening my mouth, you have made me after a long time loosen my words in your praises. But with all the people marveling and astonished at such a miracle, they asked whether he had also received hearing at the same time. He answered that he freely heard everything, with the people bearing witness. Therefore, restored to health in this way, he was taken up by Queen Chrodechild for the virtue and reverence of Saint Martin, and placed in school, and he committed the entire series of the psalms to memory. God, making him a perfect cleric, permitted him to remain in the service of the Church for many years afterward.\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nConcerning Chainemunda, a blind woman.\n\nA certain woman, by name Chainemunda, deprived of the light of her eyes, not knowing how to keep to the road by sight unless led by another, very devout and full of faith, came to the venerable temple of the blessed bishop Martin. But she was not only, as we said, blind, but also full of ulcers over her whole body. For putrefaction with pustules had beset all her limbs, and she was of a miserable appearance and horrible to see, so that she was thought by the people to be leprous. And when she had been running to the church of the glorious bishop by feeling her way each day, after nearly three years, as she stood before the tomb, her eyes were opened, so that she clearly saw all things.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":15,"ref":"p15","source":"Amotoque omni languore membrorum, atque siccato humore qui fluebat a corpore, nova cute superveniente, taliter est pristinae reddita sanitati, ut nec indicium quidem infirmitatis in ejus corpore resedisset. Quae multos in posterum vivens annos, gratias omnipotenti Deo referebat assidue, quod eam per beatum Confessorem suum sic instaurasset incolumem.\n\nCAPUT IX.\n\nDe bealo Baudino episcopo.\n\nQuam e praesens invocatip nominis ejus mare procellosum compescuerit, nonomittam. Cum beatus Baudinus episcopus Turonicae civitatis in villam I navigio subvehente transiret, subito adveniente cum violentia venti nimbo teterrimo, mare placidum commovetur impulsu flaminis, navisque undarum mole turbatur. Tollitur caput primum in fluctus, secundum declinatur inter undarum hiatus. Hi in scena montis aquosi dependent, hi apertis undis in ima dehiscunt: sed nec antenna residet, quae beatae cru' T cis i signaculum præferebat. Tunc resolutis timore membris, et omnibus sine spe vitae jam mori paratis, prosternitur senior in oratione cum lacrymis, et geminas tendens palmas ad astra, beati Martini auxilium precabatur, et ut sibi dignaretur adesse velociter proclamat. Unus autem ex perfidis dixit: Martinus ille, quem invocas, jam te dereliquit, nec libi in hac necessitate succurrit [AI., succurret]. Vere credo hanc vocem ab insidiatore fuisse prolatam, ut beatum sacerdotem ab oratione turbaret.","english":"And with all weakness of his limbs removed, and the moisture that flowed from his body dried up, and new skin coming over it, she was restored to her former health in such a way that not even a trace of the infirmity remained in her body. And she, living many years thereafter, continually gave thanks to almighty God, because He had thus restored her to soundness through His blessed Confessor.\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nConcerning the blessed Bishop Baudinus.\n\nI will not omit how the stormy sea, invoked by the present name of him, was calmed. When the blessed Baudinus, bishop of the city of Tours, was crossing to a country estate, a boat carrying him, suddenly there came a most dreadful storm-cloud with violence of wind, and the calm sea was stirred by the blast of the gale, and the ship was thrown into confusion by the mass of the waves. First the prow is lifted into the waves, then it is plunged down amid the gaps of the waters. Some hang on the slope of the watery mountain, others are swallowed into the depths as the waves open: but not even the yardarm remained, which bore the sign of the blessed cross. Then, their limbs loosened with fear, and all prepared to die without hope of life, the old man prostrated himself in prayer with tears, and stretching both palms to the stars, he implored the aid of the blessed Martin, and cried out that he should deign to be present with him swiftly. But one of the faithless said: That Martin whom you invoke has already abandoned you, nor does he help you in this necessity. Truly I believe that this voice was uttered by the tempter, so that he might disturb the blessed priest from prayer.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":16,"ref":"p16","source":"Sed ille hoc jaculum fidei lorica repellens, magis ac magis sancti viri præsidium flagitabat, simulque cohortabatur, ut omnes orarent. Cumque haec agerentur, subito supervenit odor suavissimus quasi balsamum in navi, et tanquam si cum thuribulo aliquis circuiret, odor thimiamatis effragravit. Quo odore advenientes cessit violential aeva ventorum, elisisque aquarum astantium molibus, redditur mare tranquillum. Mirantur omnes morti jam dediti fluctuum pacem, et protinus data serenitate redduntur in littore. Quod nullus ambigat, beati viri adventu hanc tempestatem fuisse sedatam. Tunc omnes in commune Domino gratias referunt, quod eos per invocationem Antistitis sui dignatus sit de hoc periculo liberare.\n\nCAPUT X.\n\nDe eo, qui Sancti reliquias Camaracum detulit.\n\nHujus tempore quidam de Camaracense ecclesia reliquias beati Martini expetiit. Quibus jam vespere acceptis, cnm psallendo proficisceretur, et dum Ligerim fluvium transisset a, sero factum est, e: subito; contenebratum est cælum; et ecce fulgura magna ac tonitrua magna descendebant. Dum hxc agerentur, duae puerorum lanceæ, emissas flammeas pharos, lumen euntibus præbuerant. Ibantque fulgurantes hastae, non minus miraculi quam beneficii viatoribus præferentes c, virtutemque beati Antistitis ostendentes.","english":"But he, repelling this dart of faith with the breastplate of faith, begged more and more for the protection of the holy man, and at the same time urged that all should pray. And while these things were being done, suddenly there came over them a most sweet odor, like balsam, in the ship, and as if someone were walking about with a censer, the fragrance of incense spread abroad. At that odor the violence of the winds gave way, and the masses of the waters standing against them being broken, the sea was restored to calm. All, already given over to death, marvel at the peace of the waves, and straightway, serenity being granted, they are brought back to the shore. Which no one doubts was calmed by the coming of the blessed man. Then all together give thanks to the Lord, because by the invocation of their Bishop he had deigned to free them from this danger.\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nConcerning him who carried the relics of the Saint to Cambrai.\n\nIn his time a certain man from the church of Cambrai sought the relics of blessed Martin. Having received them in the evening, when he set out singing psalms, and when he had crossed the river Loire, it grew late, and suddenly the sky was darkened; and behold, great lightning and great thunder came down. While these things were happening, two lances of the boys, sending forth fiery lights, provided light for those going. And the flashing spears went along, presenting no less a marvel than a benefit to the travelers, and showing the power of the blessed Bishop.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":17,"ref":"p17","source":"CAPUT XI.\n\nD rege Gallicia populoque conversis, sive, De Suevis.\n\nDeficit lingua sterilis tantas cupiens enarrare virtutes. Charrarici J cujusdam regis Galliciensis filius graviter aegrotabat, qui tale taedium incurrerat, ut solo spiritu palpitaret. Pater autem ejus foetidae se itU Arianse sectae una cum incolis loci illius subdiderat. Sed et rcgio illa plus solito quam aliae provinciir lepra e sordebat. Cumque rex videret urgeri fllium in extremis, dicit suis: Martinus ille, quem in Galliis dicunt multis virtutibus effulgere, cujus, qurcso, religionis vir fuerit, enarrate? Cui aiunt: Catholicæ lidei populum pastorali cura in corpore positus gubernavit, asserens Filium cum Patre et Spiritu sancto sequali substantia vel omnipotentia venerari debere: sed et nunc coeti sede!ocatns, assiduis beneficiiS non cessat plebi propriae providere. Qui ait: Si hæc vera sunt quæ profertis, discurrant usque ad ejus templum fideles amici meimulta munera deportantes; et si obtineant mei infantuli medicinam, inquisita fide catholica, quae ille credidit credam. Pensato ergo auro argentoque ad filii sui pondus f, transmisit ad venerabilem locum sepulcri. Quo perlati I, oblatis muneribus exorantad Beati tumulum pro acgroto. Sed insidente adhuc in patris ejus pectore secta, non continuo integram recipere meruit medicinam.","english":"CHAPTER XI.\n\nOn the conversion of the king and people of Galicia, or, On the Suevi.\n\nThe barren tongue fails, desiring to recount such great virtues. The son of a certain Charraricus, king of Galicia, was gravely ill, and had fallen into such a torpor that he throbbed only with his breath alone. But his father had subjected himself, together with the inhabitants of that place, to the foul Arian sect. Moreover, that region was defiled with leprosy more than other provinces. And when the king saw his son pressed to the last extremity, he said to his men: Tell me, I pray, of what religion that Martin was, who they say shone with many virtues in Gaul? They said to him: While still in the body, he guided the people of the catholic faith with pastoral care, asserting that the Son ought to be venerated with the Father and the Holy Spirit in equal substance and omnipotence; but even now, seated in the assembly of heaven, he does not cease to provide for his own people by constant benefits. He said: If these things that you report are true, let my faithful friends run all the way to his church, carrying many gifts; and if they obtain healing for my little son, then, having inquired into the catholic faith, I will believe what he believed. Therefore, having weighed out gold and silver to the weight of his son, he sent it to the venerable place of the tomb. When these things had been brought there, with the gifts offered they entreated at the Blessed One's tomb for the sick boy. But since the sect still sat in his father's breast, he did not immediately deserve to receive complete healing.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":18,"ref":"p18","source":"Reversi autem nuntii narraverunt regi se multas virtutes ad Beati tumulum vidisse, dicentes: Cur non sanatus fuerit filius tuus, ignoramus. At ille Intelligens, non ante sanari posse filinm suum, nisi æqualem cum Patre crederet Christum, in honorem beati Martini fabricavit ecclesiam; miroque opere ea expedita, proclamat: Si suscipere mereor viri justi reliquias, quodcunque sacerdotes praedicaverint, credam. Et sic iterum Suos dirigit majore cum munere: qui venientes ad beatum locum, reliquias postulabant. Cumque eis offerrentur ex consuetudine i, dixerunt: Non ita faeiemus, sed nobis quaesumus licentia tribuatur ponendi, quae exinde iterum assumamus. Tunc partem pallii serici pensalam super beatum sepulcrum posuerunt, dicentes: Si invenimus gratiam coram expetito patrono, quae posuimus plus insequenti pensabunt, eruntque nobis in benedictionem posita, quaesita i per fidem. Vigilata ergo una nocte, facto mane, quae posuerant pensitabant. In quibus tanta beati viri infusa est gratia, ut tandiu elevarent in sublime aeream libram, quantum habere poterat quo ascenderet momentana. Cumque elevatae fuissent reliquine cum magno triumpho, audierunt voces psallentium qui erant in civitate detrusi in carcerem, et admirantes suavitatem sonorum, interrogant custodes quid hoe esset? Qui dixerunt: Reliquiæ domni Martini in Galliciam transmittantur, et ideo sic psallitur.","english":"But the messengers returned and told the king that they had seen many miracles at the blessed tomb, saying: \"Why your son has not been healed, we do not know.\" But he, understanding that his son could not be healed before he believed Christ equal with the Father, built a church in honor of blessed Martin; and when it was completed with wondrous work, he proclaimed: \"If I am deemed worthy to receive the relics of the righteous man, whatever the priests preach, I will believe.\" And so he again sent his men with a greater gift; coming to the blessed place, they asked for relics. And when these were offered to them according to custom, they said: \"We will not do it that way, but, we ask, let leave be granted us to place down what we may afterward take up again.\" Then they placed a hanging piece of silk cloth upon the blessed tomb, saying: \"If we find favor before the patron we have sought, what we have placed down will weigh more than what follows, and what has been placed down for us will be for a blessing, and what has been sought through faith.\" So after keeping vigil one night, at daybreak they weighed what they had placed down. Into these such grace of the blessed man was infused that they lifted the airy balance on high as long as the moment could allow it to rise. And when the relics had been lifted up with great triumph, they heard the voices of those singing who had been thrown into prison in the city, and marveling at the sweetness of the sounds, they asked the guards what this was. They said: \"The relics of lord Martin are being sent into Galicia, and for that reason there is such singing.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":19,"ref":"p19","source":"Tunc illi flentes invocabant sanctum Martinum, ut eos sua visitatione de ergastulo carceris liberaret. Exterritisque custodibus, et in fugam versis, disruptis obicibus retinaculorum, liber populus surgit a vinculo, et sic usque ad sancta pignora, plebe inspectante 11, venerunt, osculantes flendo beatas reliquias, simulque et gratias beato Martino pro sui absolutione reddentes, quod eos dignatus fuerit sua pietate salvare. Tunc obtentis per. sacerdotem a judice culpis, incolumes dimissisont. Quod videntes gestatores reliquiarum, gavisi sunt valde, dicentes: Nune cognovimus quod dignatur beatus Antistes nobis peccatoribus propitium se praebere. Et sic gratias agentes, navigio prospero, prosequente patroni praesidio, undis lenibus, tempetatis flatibus, velo pendulo, mari tranquillo, velociter ad portum Galliciae pervenerunt. Tunc commonitus a Deo quidam, nomine Martinus c, de regione longinqua, qui ibidem nunc sacerdos habetur, advenit. Sed nec hoc credo sine divina fuisse providentia, quod eo die se commoveret de patria quo beatæ reliquiæ de loco łevatæ sunt, et sic simul cum ipsis pignoribus Galliciae portum ingressus sit. Quae pignora cum summa veneratione suscipientes, fidem miraculis firmant. Nam filius regis, dimissa omni aegritudine, sanus properat ad occursam.","english":"Then those men, weeping, invoked Saint Martin, that he might free them from the prison's dungeon by his visitation. And when the guards were terrified and put to flight, and the bars of the chains were broken, the freed people rose from their bonds, and so came, with the crowd looking on, to the holy relics, weeping as they kissed the blessed remains, and at the same time giving thanks to blessed Martin for their release, because he had deigned in his mercy to save them. Then, when their offenses had been pardoned by the judge through the priest, they were dismissed unharmed. Seeing this, the bearers of the relics rejoiced greatly, saying: \"Now we know that the blessed bishop deigns to show himself favorable to us sinners.\" And so, giving thanks, with a prosperous voyage, with the protection of their patron attending them, with gentle waves, with the blasts of the storm, with sail hanging, with the sea calm, they swiftly reached the port of Galicia. Then a certain man, named Martin, from a distant region, who is now held as a priest in that same place, was warned by God and arrived. But I do not believe that this happened without divine providence either, that he set out from his homeland on the very day on which the blessed relics were lifted from their place, and thus entered the port of Galicia together with those same relics. Receiving these relics with the utmost veneration, they confirmed their faith by miracles. For the king's son, all sickness having been dismissed, hastened healthy to meet them.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":20,"ref":"p20","source":"Beatus autem Martinus sacerdotalis gratia£ accepit principatum d, Rex unitatem Patris et Filii, et Spiritus sancti confeSsus, cum omni domo sua chrismatus est. Squalor leprae a populo pellitur, et omnes infirmi salvantur, nec unquam ibi postea usque nunc guper aliquem leprae morbus apparuit. Talemque gratiam ibi in adventu pignorum beati patroni Dominus tribuit, ut virtutes, quae ibidem iila die factae sunt, enarrare perlongum sit. Nam tantum in Cbristi amore nunc populus iiic promptus est, ut omnes martyrium libentissime susciperent, si tempus persecutionis adesset.\n\nCAPUT XII.\n\nDe Ultrogotha Regina.\n\nNam et Ultrogotha e regina, auditis miraculis quae ad locum fiunt quo sancta membra quiescunt, tanquam si Sapientiam Saiomonis veniret audire i, expetiit ea corde devoto prospicere. Abstinens ergo Se a cibis et somno, praeCurrentibus etiam largissimis eleemosynis, pervenit ad locum sanctum, ingressaque basilicam, timens et tremens, nequaquam audebat beatum adire sepulcrum, indignam se esse proclamans, nec ibidem posse, obsistentibus culpis accedere. Tamen deducta in vigiliis et orationibus ac profluis lacrymis una nocte, mane oblatis muneribus multis, in honorem beati Confessoris missas expetiit revocari s.","english":"But blessed Martin, having received the high priesthood by the grace of the sacerdotal office, and King [Chlothar?] having confessed the unity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, was anointed with his whole household. The foulness of leprosy is driven away from the people, and all the sick are healed, nor ever afterward up to now has the disease of leprosy appeared upon anyone there. And the Lord bestowed such grace there at the coming of the blessed patron's relics, that the miracles which were done there on that day would be long in recounting. For the people there are now so ready in the love of Christ that all would most willingly undergo martyrdom, if a time of persecution were at hand.\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nConcerning Queen Ultrogotha.\n\nFor indeed Ultrogotha the queen also, having heard of the miracles which are done at the place where the holy limbs rest, as if she were coming to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sought with devout heart to look upon them. Abstaining therefore from food and sleep, and with most generous alms going before her, she came to the holy place, and having entered the basilica, fearing and trembling, she did not at all dare to approach the blessed tomb, proclaiming herself unworthy, and that she could not approach there, her sins standing in the way. Yet, having been led on in vigils and prayers and flowing tears for one night, in the morning, after many gifts had been offered, she asked that masses be called forth in honor of the blessed Confessor.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":21,"ref":"p21","source":"Quae dum celebrarentur, subito tres caeci, qui ad pedes beati Antistitis longo tempore privati lumine residebant, fulgore nimio circumdati, lumen, quod olim perdiderant, receperunt. Quo facto, clamor in cœlum attollitur magnificantium Deum. Ad istud tniraculum currit regina, concurrit et populus, mirantur omnes fidem mulieris, mirantur gloriam Confessoris: sed super omnia collaudatur Deus noster, qui tantam virtutem praestat sanctis suis, ut per eos talia operari dignetur, tale inter reliqua luminaria huic mundo beatum Martinum immensum sidus attribuens, per quem ejus tenebrae refulgerent [AI. refulgeant]: qui vere sicut oliva fructifera, per singulos dies fructus exhibet Domino de conversionibus miserorum h.\n\nCAPUT XIII.\n\nDe eo qai a pustula in extremis I positus laborabat.\n\nSed nec prætereundum est i, quod venerabilem conservum meum Fortunatum presbyterum retulisse commemoro. Quidam in Italia, dum veneno pustulae pervasus in discrimine sic ageretur, ut vivere desperaret, aliquos interrogat ad temptum beati Martini quis fuerit 1. Tunc quidam ex astantibus asserit se fuisse. Requirit aegrotus quid inde pro benedictione detulerit. Qui negat se aliquid praesumpsisse. Quem iterum interrogat qua tunc veste indutus sit, cum ad templum Sancti occurrerit. Respondit, quod ea qua super se ipso tempore utebatur. Tunc abscissam fideliter indumenti particulam imposuit super pustufam.","english":"While these things were being celebrated, suddenly three blind men, who had for a long time sat deprived of light at the feet of the blessed bishop, were surrounded by an exceeding brightness and received the light which they had once lost. At this deed a shout is raised to heaven by those magnifying God. To this miracle the queen runs, the people run together also, all marvel at the faith of the woman, all marvel at the glory of the confessor; but above all things our God is praised, who bestows such power upon his saints that he deigns to work such things through them, assigning among the other lights of this world the blessed Martin as a vast star, through whom its darknesses shine forth; who truly, like a fruitful olive tree, day by day yields fruit to the Lord from the conversions of the wretched.\n\nCHAPTER XIII.\n\nConcerning him who was afflicted by a pustule and brought to the last extremity.\n\nBut neither must it be passed over in silence, which I record that my venerable fellow servant the priest Fortunatus reported. A certain man in Italy, while he was so afflicted by a poisoned pustule and brought into danger that he despaired of living, asked some people, in the name of the blessed Martin, who he was. Then one of those standing by asserted that he had been [him]. The sick man asks what he had brought from there as a blessing. He denies that he had presumed to take anything. He asks him again what garment he was then wearing when he had come to the church of the Saint. He replied that it was the one he was then wearing upon himself. Then a piece cut from the garment was faithfully laid upon the pustule.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":22,"ref":"p22","source":"Mox ut ægri membra tetigit, vulnus pustulae veneni vim perdidit: quæ tali medicamine et virtutem Sancti protulit, et infirmum refert incolumem. Hanc apud Italos asserens specialem vigere medelam, ut si quis pustulæ percutiatur vulnere, ad propinquum quod fuerit beati Martini oratorium habeatur perfugium, et aut ex vclo a januae, aut palliolis, quao pendent de parietibus, quidquid primum raptum fuerit, si ægro superpositum adhæserit, fit salubre. Haec medela genitorem suum carnalem ab interitu pustulae, ut ipse patris sui testis asserit, Iiberavit.\n\nCAPUT XIV.\n\nDe castello llalice, Tertio nomine.\n\nIdem his verbis retulit, in cacumine castelli regionis Italiæ, quod dicitur Tertium, oratorium beati Martini fundatum est; ibique turri vicinæ, quoties incursione barbarorum per fraudem hostis accederet nocturnis insidiis, quisquis de vigilantibus habuisset in turre lanceam, aut spatam, vel cultellum, seu grafium protulisset ex theca, fere per horae spatium tale lumen reddebatur ex universo gladio, tanquam si illud ferrum verteretur in cereum. Et mox ex ipso signo custodes admoniti, magis intenli vigiliis, hostes latebrantes lapidibus exturbabant. Quod ope sancti Martini recto judicio repu!atur, qui vicinitate sua sibi devotis populis sedulam exhibuit praesentemque custodiam. Et hanc virtutem a supra dicto cognovimus Fortunato.","english":"As soon as he touched the sick man's limbs, the poison's force lost its power over the pustule's wound; and this remedy both displayed the Saint's power and restored the sick man to health. Declaring that this special healing flourishes among the Italians, he says that if anyone is struck by the wound of a pustule, he should take refuge at the nearest oratory of the blessed Martin that there may be, and whatever is first snatched—whether from the veil of the door or from the little cloths that hang from the walls—if it is placed upon the sick man and clings to him, it becomes healing. This remedy, as he himself, the witness of his own father, asserts, delivered his own father in the flesh from the death of the pustule.\n\nCHAPTER XIV.\n\nConcerning the castle of Italy called Tertium.\n\nHe also reported in these words that on the summit of a castle in the region of Italy which is called Tertium, an oratory of the blessed Martin was founded; and there, at the neighboring tower, whenever by the treachery of the enemy an incursion of barbarians approached by night ambush, whoever among the watchmen in the tower had a lance, or a sword, or a knife, or drew a stylus from its sheath, for nearly the space of an hour such light was given off from the whole blade as if that iron were turned into a wax candle. And presently the guards, warned by this very sign and more intent upon their watches, drove out the lurking enemies with stones. This is reckoned, by right judgment, to be by the aid of the holy Martin, who by his nearness showed diligent and present guardianship to the peoples devoted to him. And this power we learned from the aforesaid Fortunatus.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":23,"ref":"p23","source":"CAPUT XV.\n\nDe olco ckendilis super pictura Beatu\n\nSibi quoque in Ravenna atque in rhetorica socio suo Felici, ex oleo, quod sub imagine picturae beati Martini in cicendili ardebat, dum tetigeruot oculos, lumen rediisse [Forsan, reddidisse] confessus est.\n\nCAPUT XVI.\n\nDe Placido procuratore.\n\nSimiliter in praedicta urbe dum Placidus procurator, desperatus a medicis, ad aliud e puellarum oratorium sibi vicinum confugeret, et in atrio recubaret, venit noctu ad abbatissam beatus Martinus per somnium, quam requirens quid faceret, ait, se requiescere. Dicit Sanctus ad illam: In Gallias babui jam redire, sed propter istum, qui foris jacet in atrio, me remoratum profitear. Tunc surgens abbatissa, et referens visionem, fidem fecit homini quia de periculo liberaretur, quod certe meruit obtinere. Sed ut [Forsan, et] praedictus presbyter asserit, multum desiderabilius in locis Italicis Martini gloriam venerari quam, si cet dici, quo I propria membra recubant tumulata: in tantum ut frequentia miracula nec sparsa colligantur in verbis, nec tam infinita recondantur in paginis.","english":"CHAPTER XV.\n\nConcerning the oil of the lamp above the picture of the Blessed [Martin].\n\nHe also confessed that for himself at Ravenna, and for his companion in rhetoric, Felix, light was restored when they touched their eyes with the oil that burned in the lamp beneath the painted image of the blessed Martin.\n\nCHAPTER XVI.\n\nConcerning Placidus the procurator.\n\nLikewise in the aforesaid city, when Placidus the procurator, given up by the physicians, fled to another oratory of the maidens near to him, and lay in the atrium, the blessed Martin came by night to the abbess in a dream; and when she asked what he was doing, he said that he was resting. The Saint said to her: \"I had already [begun] to return to Gaul, but on account of this man who lies outside in the atrium, I confess that I have been delayed.\" Then the abbess arose, and relating the vision, she made the man believe that he would be freed from danger, which he certainly deserved to obtain. But, as the aforesaid presbyter asserts, it is much more desirable to venerate Martin's glory in the regions of Italy than, if it be said, in the place where his own limbs lie buried: to such an extent that the abundance of miracles is neither gathered in scattered words, nor are things so infinite hidden away in pages.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":24,"ref":"p24","source":"CAPUT XVII.\n\nDe his qum Ambianis gesta sunt.\n\nIn porta Ambianensi, in qua quondam vir beatus pauperem algentem chlamyde decisa contexit a, oratorium a fidelibus est aedificatum, in quo nunc puellae religiosae deserviunt ob honorem sancti Antistiiis, parumper habentes facultatis, nisi quod eas devotorum alit sæpe devotio. Erant tamen eis quodam tempore pauca apium alvearia, quae eis fuerant data, quae cum quidam invidus conspexisset, ait intra se: Utinam aliquid de his vasis possem auferre. Secuta autem nocte instigatus a dæmone, ablatis tribus vasis, navim onerat, ut scilicet transito amne sibi facilius quae abstulerat vindicaret. Sed, credo, ei impedimentum fuisse hoc furtum, sicut postea manifeste probatum est. Igitur cum sole oriente ad portum fluminis causa transmeandi homines properarent, navim ad littus aspiciunt, apesque ex alveariis catervatim emergere, hominemque seorsum jaccre prostratum. Sed putantes cum a somno occupatum, sicut didicerant jam a puellis furtum factum, quantocius properant ad alligandum eum, sed accedentes mortuum reperiunt. Stajimque puellis notum faciunt factum, et quod furto raptum fuerat cellulæ restituunt, admirantes tam velociter in homine divinae ultionis accessisse sententiam.","english":"CHAPTER XVII.\n\nConcerning what was done at Amiens.\n\nAt the gate of Amiens, where the blessed man once wrapped the shivering poor man in his cut cloak, an oratory has been built by the faithful, in which religious maidens now serve in honor of the holy bishop, having but little means, except that the devotion of the devout often sustains them. At one time, however, they had a few beehives, which had been given to them; and when a certain envious man had seen them, he said within himself: \"If only I could carry off something from these hives.\" The following night, urged on by the demon, he took away three hives and loaded them onto a boat, so that, having crossed the river, he might more easily secure for himself what he had stolen. But, I believe, this theft proved a hindrance to him, as was afterward clearly shown. So when at sunrise men were hurrying to the river's landing place to cross over, they see the boat at the shore, and the bees swarming out in crowds from the hives, and the man lying prostrate apart. But thinking him overcome by sleep, since they had already learned from the maidens that the theft had been committed, they hasten as quickly as possible to bind him; but on approaching they find him dead. At once they make the matter known to the maidens, and restore to their cells what had been carried off by theft, marveling that the sentence of divine vengeance had fallen upon the man so swiftly.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":25,"ref":"p25","source":"CAPUT XVIII.\n\nDe Siroialense oratorio.\n\nSic et apud Siroialense a oratorium, cujus altarium sancti Confessoris manus alma sacravit, dum plerique beneficia expetita mererentur, quidam paralyticus adveniens, et cereum in status sui altitudinem nocte tota vigilans retinuisset, mane facto, ut. lux reddita est mundo, ipse absolutis gressibus, populo teste, incolumis exsilivit.\n\nCAPUT XIX.\n\nDe Bella cæca.\n\nNec hoc silebo, quid caecilati contulerit, cum beati sepulcrum devota mulier expetisset. Quaedam de Turonico territorio femina, Bella nomine, amisso oculorum lumine graviter laborabat. Et cum die noctuque incessabilibus doloribus urgeretur, dicitsuis: Si ad basilicam domni Martini ducta fuissem, continuo sanitatem recepissem. Confido etenim, quod possit oculis meis lumen infundere, qui potuit pauperis lepram osculo libante sanare b. Deindc, adminiculo deducente, venit ad sanctum locum, ibique jejuniis et orationibus crebris insistens, visum quem amiserat recipere meruit. Et ita sanata cst, ut qu;e cæca venerat alio perducente, caecis affatim dux futura regressa sit. Quæ postea virum accipiens, et filios generans, recuperatori gratias rependit incolumis.","english":"CHAPTER XVIII.\n\nConcerning the Oratory at Siroialense.\n\nSo too at the oratory of Siroialense, whose altar the blessed Confessor's own hand consecrated, while many obtained the benefits they sought, a certain paralytic came, and having kept a wax candle burning all night at the height of his own stature, when morning came and light was restored to the world, he, with his steps loosed, leaped up sound before the witnessing people.\n\nCHAPTER XIX.\n\nConcerning Bella, the blind woman.\n\nNor shall I pass over in silence what he conferred on blindness, when a devout woman sought the blessed man's tomb. A certain woman from the territory of Tours, by name Bella, having lost the light of her eyes, was gravely afflicted. And when she was pressed day and night by unceasing pains, she said: If I were led to the basilica of the lord Martin, I would at once receive health. For I trust that he can pour light into my eyes, who was able to heal the poor man's leprosy by kissing him. Then, with someone leading her by the hand, she came to the holy place, and there persisting in fasts and frequent prayers, she deserved to receive the sight she had lost. And she was so healed that she who had come blind, led by another, returned as one who would henceforth be a guide to the blind in abundance. Afterwards she took a husband and bore sons, and, restored to health, gave thanks to her restorer.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":26,"ref":"p26","source":"CAPUT XX.\n\nDe Ammonio præcipitato.\n\nEt quia bis aut tertio de sola gloriosi nominis invocatione, et virtutes factas, et pericula sedata narravimus, qualiter cuidam pereunti in ipso mortis præcipitio beatus Pontifex invocatus sustentaculum praebuisset, evolvam. Ammonius quidam agens sanctae basilicæ, dum de coena madefactus vino veniret, de rupe excelsa, quæ viae conjungitur, inimico impingente, præcipitatur. Erat autem [profundum loci illius fere ducentorum pedum. Cumque per profunditatem præcipitii illius rotaretur, et deorsum sine alarum rcmigio volilaret, sancti Martini auxilium per singula descensionis suae momenta clamabat. Tunc quasi manibus aliorum de jumento suo excussus, super arbores, quae valli inerant, dejicitur. Et sic paulatim per singulos ramos descendens, sine mortis periculo ad terram usque pervenit. Tamen ut opus insidiatoris non usquequaque videretur cassatum, quod fuerat inchoatum, unum pedem ejus leviter lædit. Sed veniens ad gloriosi domni Martini templum, orationi incumbens, omnem vim doloris amisit.","english":"CHAPTER XX.\n\nConcerning Ammonius Cast Down.\n\nAnd since two or three times we have told of miracles wrought and dangers calmed by the invocation of the glorious name alone, I shall now unfold how the blessed Pontiff, when invoked, gave support to a certain man perishing on the very brink of death. A certain Ammonius, a steward of the holy basilica, while coming from a supper soaked with wine, was struck by the enemy and cast down from a high cliff that adjoins the road. Now the depth of that place was nearly two hundred feet. And as he was whirled through the depth of that precipice and flew downward without the beating of wings, he cried out for the aid of Saint Martin at every moment of his descent. Then, as if shaken from his mount by the hands of others, he was thrown down upon the trees that were in the valley. And so, descending little by little through each branch, he came all the way to the ground without peril of death. Yet, so that the work of the plotter might not seem altogether frustrated, he lightly injured one of his feet, which had been begun. But coming to the church of the glorious lord Martin, and applying himself to prayer, he lost all the force of his pain.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":27,"ref":"p27","source":"CAPUT XX,.\n\nDe alio appenso.\n\nNon credo haberi superfluum, si inseratur lectioni qualiter invocatio nominis ejus vitam praestiterit morituro. Quodam loco unus propter furti scelera comprehensus, atque gravibus verberibus actus, ductus est ad patibulum, ut condemnaretur suspendio.Cumque in hunc exitum, morte jam appropinquante, venisset, orandi spatium petiit. Tunc sicut erat ligatis post tergum manibus, jactavit se pronns in terram, et coepit cum lacrymis iuvocare nomen beati Martini, ut etsi in bac necessitate ei non succurreret, vel a culpis eum in posterum excusaret. Cumque completa oratione suspensus fuisslet, recesserunt milites [Gat. ministri] a loco illo: ipse autem ore semiaperto parumper labia movens, saucti Martini semper nitebatur auxilium implorare. Discedentibus tamen illis, statim solutae sunt manus et pedes ejus. Et sic per biduum pendente eo, revelatum est cuidam religiosae ut eum tolleret. Quae veniens invenit eum adhuc viventem. Tunc adjutorio beati Martini de patibulo depositum, incolumem adduxit ad ecclesiam: ibique eum videntes stupescebanr, et admirabantur, dicentes: Quomodo vivit? Et interrogabant cum qualiter liberatus esset. Ille autem dicebat: Beatus Martinus me de praesenti morte liberavit, et hucusque perduxit.","english":"CHAPTER XX.\n\nConcerning another man hanged.\n\nI do not think it superfluous to insert into the reading how the invocation of his name restored life to a man about to die. In a certain place a man was seized for the crimes of theft, and after being subjected to severe beatings, he was led to the gallows to be condemned to hanging. And when he had come to this end, with death now near, he asked for time to pray. Then, just as he was, with his hands bound behind his back, he threw himself prone upon the ground and began with tears to invoke the name of the blessed Martin, that even if he should not come to his aid in this necessity, he might at least excuse him from his sins thereafter. And when his prayer was finished and he had been hanged, the soldiers [the attendants] withdrew from that place; but he, with his mouth half open and his lips moving a little, was ever striving to implore the aid of Saint Martin. Yet when they had departed, at once his hands and feet were loosed. And as he hung thus for two days, it was revealed to a certain religious woman that she should take him down. She came and found him still alive. Then, with the help of the blessed Martin, she took him down from the gallows and brought him safe to the church; and there those who saw him were stunned and marveled, saying: How does he live? And they asked him how he had been freed. But he said: The blessed Martin freed me from present death and has preserved me until now.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":28,"ref":"p28","source":"Vere hanc ego virtutem in hoc homine ostensam, juxta sensus mei intelligentiam, non inferiorem censeo, quam mortuum suscitatum: quem sic bcatus Confessor, confracto, ut ita dicam, mortis hiatu, et ejus ab ore retractum vitæ restituit. Qui usque hodie ad testimonium virtutis beati viri vivus habetur in saeculo.\n\nCAPUT XXII.\n\nDe Leomere contraeto.\n\nQuid etiam in Condatensi dioecesi e actum sit, non praeteribo. Locus autem ille crebris virtutibus Illu. stralur. Ab hoc enim vir beatus, sarcina carnis abjecta, migravit ad Dominum. Leomeri, ergo quidam mine, servus cujusdam hominis Andecavini a sanluine a percussus, contracta manu, ligataque lingua rigebat; multoque tempore in hac debilitate detentus, neque sibi, neque domino aliquid operis exercebat. Iiic fide commonitus, cum ad beati basilicam vigilasset, directa manu, deliberataque ab omni impedimento lingua, beati Martini miraculum populis testabatur, dicens: Ecce quid in hac nocte sanctus Dei operatus est, me teste, probate. Reversus autem ad dominum suum narravit ci omnia quæ acta fuerant. Sed ille minime virtutem gloriosi Pontificis credens, ad solitum eum adaptat servitium. Qui cum operari coepisset, rursum in debilitatem redigitur.","english":"I consider this power shown in this man, according to the understanding of my own mind, to be no less than the raising of a dead man: for the blessed Confessor, having broken, so to speak, the gaping maw of death, drew him back from its mouth and restored him to life. And he is kept alive in the world to this day as a testimony to the power of the blessed man.\n\nCHAPTER XXII.\n\nConcerning Leomer, who was crippled.\n\nI will not pass over what was also done in the diocese of Condat. That place is made illustrious by frequent miracles. For from this place the blessed man, having cast off the burden of the flesh, departed to the Lord. Now a certain servant of a man of Angers, named Leomer, having been struck down by a flow of blood, was stiffened with a contracted hand and a bound tongue; and having been held in this weakness for a long time, he performed no work either for himself or for his master. He, admonished by faith, when he had kept vigil at the blessed man's basilica, with his hand made straight and his tongue freed from every impediment, testified to the peoples the miracle of the blessed Martin, saying: \"Behold, what the saint of God has wrought this night, prove, with me as witness.\" But when he had returned to his master, he told him all that had been done. But he, believing the power of the glorious Pontiff not at all, assigned him to his usual service. And when he had begun to work, he was again reduced to weakness.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":29,"ref":"p29","source":"Intelligens autem dominus ejus Dei hoc esse mysterium, transmisit eum iterum ad locum sanctum, ad quem prius abierat, in quo ille cum maxima devotione pernoctans, dato die, sanitati quam prius meruerat instauratur.\n\nCAPUT XXIII.\n\nDe Wiliachario soluto a catenis.\n\nDignupn existimavi et illud non omittere in relatu, quid Wiliacharium presbyterum referentem audivi Tempore quo idem Wiliacharius per perfidiam Chramni Chlotarium regem iratum incurrerat b, ad basilicam sancti Martini confugit, atque ibidem in catenis positus custodiebatur, sed virtute beali Præsulis comminutae catenæ stare non potuerunt. Nescio autem qua imminente negligentia foris atrium comprehensus est. Quem oneratum ferro, vinctisque post tergum manibus,ducebant ad regein. Atille voce magna clamare cuepit, et ut sibi beatus Martinus misereretur orare, nec eum sineret abire captivum, cujus devotus expetierat templum. Statimque in ejus vocibus, orante beato Euphronio episcopo de muro civitatis contra basilicam, dissolutae sunt manus ejus, et omnes baccae catenarum confractae ceciderunt. Perductus autem usque ad regem, ibi iterum in compedibus et catenis constrictus retinebatur. Sed invocato nomine saepe dicti patroni, ita omne ferrum super eum comminutum ep' ut putares illud fuisse quasi lutum figuli.","english":"But his master, understanding that this was a mystery of God, sent him again to the holy place to which he had gone before; and there, spending the night in the greatest devotion, when day came he was restored to the health he had previously merited.\n\nCHAPTER XXIII.\n\nConcerning Wiliacharius, loosed from chains.\n\nI judged it worthy and not to be omitted from my account, what I heard Wiliacharius the priest relating. At the time when the same Wiliacharius, through the treachery of Chramnus, had incurred the anger of King Chlotar, he fled to the basilica of Saint Martin, and there, placed in chains, he was kept under guard; but by the power of the blessed Bishop the chains were shattered and could not hold. Yet I know not by what negligence, as it was drawing on, he was seized outside the atrium. Laden with iron and with his hands bound behind his back, they were leading him to the king. But he began to cry out with a loud voice and to pray that the blessed Martin would have mercy on him, and not suffer him to go away captive, who had devoutly sought his temple. And straightway, at his cries, while the blessed Bishop Euphronius prayed from the wall of the city opposite the basilica, his hands were loosed, and all the links of the chains were broken and fell down. But when he had been brought all the way to the king, there again he was held bound in fetters and chains. Yet when the name of the oft-mentioned patron was invoked, all the iron upon him was so shattered as if you might think it had been like the clay of a potter.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":30,"ref":"p30","source":"Hoc tantum erat in spatiis, ut non solveretur a vinculo, quoadusque nomen illud sacratissimum invocasset; invocato autem, omnia solvebantur. Tunc rex altioris ingenii, videns virtutem sancti Martini ibidem operari, et ab onere vinculorum absolvit eum, et pristinae restituit libertati. Hæc ab ipsius Wiliacharii presbyteri ore coram multis testibus factum esse cognovi. Utinam se mihi in tali virtute dignaretur manifestare beatus Confessor, dt sic absolveret meorum ligamina peccaminum, siCut super eum contrivit vasta pondera catenarum.\n\nCAPUT XXIV.\n\nDe Alpino comite debili\n\nAlpinus quoque comes Turonicae civitatis cum per totum annum graviter ab unius pedis dolore consumeretur, et die noctuque requiem non haberet, atque inter ipsas torturae suae voces beati Martini jugiter auxilium imploraret, apparuit ei beatus Confessor in visu nocte, hilari vultu arridens, et consueta deferens arma; ut beatum signaculum sanctae crucis super pedem inlirmum imposuit, mox omni dolore fugato, sanus surrexit de lectulo.","english":"This alone remained in his bonds, that he could not be loosed from the chain until he had invoked that most sacred name; but once it was invoked, all things were loosed. Then the king, of a deeper understanding, seeing the power of Saint Martin at work there, both freed him from the burden of his chains and restored him to his former liberty. I learned that this was done in the presence of many witnesses from the mouth of the priest Wiliacharius himself. Would that the blessed Confessor deign to manifest himself to me in such power, and so loose the bonds of my sins, as he crushed the vast weight of chains upon him.\n\nCHAPTER XXIV.\n\nConcerning Alpinus, the lame count\n\nAlpinus also, count of the city of Tours, when he had been grievously consumed for a whole year by a pain in one foot, and had no rest day or night, and amid the very cries of his torment continually implored the aid of the blessed Martin, the blessed Confessor appeared to him in a vision by night, smiling with a cheerful countenance and bearing his accustomed arms; when he had placed the blessed sign of the holy cross upon the infirm foot, straightway all the pain was put to flight, and he rose sound from his bed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":31,"ref":"p31","source":"CAPUT XXV.\n\nDe Charigisilo contracto.\n\nHis expertis Charigisilus referendarius regis Clotarii, cui manus et pedes ab humore contracti erant d, venit ad sanctam basilicam, et orationi incumbens per duos aut tres menses, a beato Antistite visitatus, membris debilibus sanitatem obtinere promeruit: qui postea antedicti regis domesticus e fuit, multaque beneficia populo Turonico vel servientibus beatae basilicae ministravit.\n\nCAPUT XXVI.\n\nDe Aquilino amente.\n\nNarrabo et illud, qualiter diabolicae artis insaniæ ad ejus basilicam denudentur. Quidam, Aquilinus nomine, dum venationem cum patre suo in silvis Franciæ exerceret, pavorem pessimum, inimico insidiante, incurrit. Erat enim ei tremor cordis, et interea videbatur exsensus r. Parentes vero ejus intelligentes eum diaboli immissione turbari, ut mos rusticorum habet, a sortilegis et ariolis ligamenta ei et potiones deferebant. Sed cum nihil valerent ex more I, illi sancti Martini auxilia prompti, dolore cogente, requirunt, dicentes: Potest hic insidiarum nudare malitiam, qui detexit umbram multam, ut audivimus, falso religionis nomine adoratam h. Quem de regione commotum miserunt ad sanctam basilicam, ibique in oratione cum summa parcitate se continens, opem Sancti poscebat assidue.","english":"CHAPTER XXV.\n\nConcerning Charigisilus, who was contracted.\n\nAfter these things had been experienced, Charigisilus, referendary of King Chlothar, whose hands and feet were contracted from a humor, came to the holy basilica, and applying himself to prayer for two or three months, visited by the blessed Bishop, he deserved to obtain health for his feeble limbs; he afterward was a domestic of the aforesaid king, and rendered many benefits to the people of Tours and to those serving the blessed basilica.\n\nCHAPTER XXVI.\n\nConcerning Aquilinus, the demented.\n\nI shall tell also that, how the madness of diabolical art is laid bare at his basilica. A certain man, by name Aquilinus, while he was exercising hunting with his father in the forests of Francia, incurred a most grievous terror, with the enemy lying in wait. For there was in him a trembling of the heart, and meanwhile he seemed to be deprived of his senses. But his parents, understanding that he was disturbed by the devil's injection, as is the custom of rustics, brought him ligatures and potions from soothsayers and diviners. But when these availed nothing, according to custom, they promptly sought the aids of Saint Martin, with grief compelling them, saying: He can lay bare the malice of snares, who uncovered the great shadow, as we have heard, adored under a false name of religion. Him, stirred from the region, they sent to the holy basilica, and there, containing himself in prayer with the utmost sparingness, he was assiduously demanding the aid of the Saint.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":32,"ref":"p32","source":"Cumque in hac fide diutius commoratus ibi fuisset, omni pavore dempto, sensum ut habuerat ante, recepit, oblitisque parentibus in eo loco usque hodie pro beneficio accepto deservit.\n\nCAPUT XXVII.\n\nDa Charivaldo debili.\n\nSed et Charivaldus quidam per venationem similes incurrens insidias, latus unum, debilitata manu ac pede, perdiderat. Qui ad gloriosum templum famulorum manibus deportatus, jejuniis et orationibus se subdens assiduis, per totum ferre annum. Quod cum fecisset, omnium membrorum sanitate recepta, gaudens remeavit ad propria. Et ideo monemus ut nullus sollicitetur ab ariolis, quia nihil unquam proderunt inlirmis. Plus enim valet parumper de pulvere basilicac, quam illi cum medicamentis insaniae.\n\nCAPUT XXVIII.\n\nDe fune abscisso,\n\nDe pulvere, aut cera loci illius, vel quidquid rapere quis potuit de sepulcro, quantæ virtutes aut assidue fiant, aut factae sint, quis unquam poterit investigare aut scire? Unum tamen manifestum miraculum, quod a fidelibus comperi, putavi crimen ducere taceri. Unus lide plenus expetiit ut aliquid pignoris de Sancti basilica secretius deportaret; et multis eonalus vicibus, nunquam potuit, dum publice non praesumpsit. Heverti autem cupiens, nocte ad funem illum de quo signum commovetur advenit; es quo fune decisam cultro particulam, secum detulit.","english":"And when he had remained there for a long time in this faith, all fear having been removed, he recovered the senses he had possessed before, and forgetting his parents, to this very day he serves in that place for the benefit he received.\n\nCHAPTER XXVII.\n\nConcerning Charivaldus, who was disabled.\n\nBut also a certain Charivaldus, having fallen into similar snares through hunting, had lost one side, with his hand and foot disabled. He was carried by the hands of servants to the glorious temple, and submitting himself to continual fasts and prayers throughout a whole year. When he had done this, having received the health of all his limbs, he returned rejoicing to his own home. And therefore we warn that no one should consult soothsayers, because they will never profit the sick at all. For a little of the dust of the basilica is worth more than they are with the medicines of madness.\n\nCHAPTER XXVIII.\n\nConcerning the cut rope.\n\nConcerning the dust, or the wax of that place, or whatever anyone was able to take away from the tomb, who could ever investigate or know how many virtues are continually performed, or have been performed? Nevertheless, one manifest miracle, which I learned from the faithful, I thought it a crime to keep silent. A certain man full of faith secretly sought to carry away some token from the basilica of the Saint; and having tried many times, he was never able, since he did not presume to do so publicly. But desiring to return, at night he came to that rope by which the sign is rung; and having cut off a small piece from that rope with a knife, he carried it away with him.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":33,"ref":"p33","source":"Regressusque ad domum, multis exinde infirmis sanitatem accommodavit, ita ut non dubium esset aegrotum evadere, qui pignus illud meruisset fideliter osculari. Ecce quid, Sancte, præstas fidelibus qui tua moenia expetunt * pie. Per te salvantur, qui pignora votive detulerint, et subsequente tuo auxilio, liberantur. Sed hæc omnia fides strenua operatur, dicente Domino: Fides tua te salvum feeit (Luc. XVIII, 42).-\n\nCAPUT XXIX.\n\nDe Chariberto rege, qui res ecclesiasticas pervasit.\n\nVidetur nec illud silcri, qualiler vir beatus præsidia famulis addres suas defendendas quaqua jubet accommodet. Charibertus rex, cum, exosis clericis, ecclesias Dei negligeret, despectisque sacerdotibus, magis iq luxuriam dcc!inasset, ingestum est ejus auribus locum quemdam, quem basilica sancti Martini diuturno tempore retiuebat, fisci sui juribus redhiberi. Loco autem illi Navicellis nomen prisca yetustas indiderat. Qui accepto iniquo consilio, pueros velociter misit, qui reiculam illam in suo dominio subjugarent. Cumque hæc recte non possidens, videretur habere, jussit in locum illurn stabularios cum equitibus [Idest, equis] dirigi, ibique sine aequitatis ordine præcepit eq.uos ali. Accedentes ergo pueri fenum quod coacervatum fuerat accipiunt in equorum expensas. Cumque injunctum studiose ageretur servitium, atque equites appositum fenum caepissent expendere, corripiuntur a rabie.","english":"And returning to the house, he thereafter granted health to many sick persons, so that it was beyond doubt that the sick man would escape, who had merited faithfully to kiss that pledge. Behold, O holy one, what you bestow upon the faithful who piously seek your walls. Through you are saved those who have devoutly brought pledges, and with your help following, they are set free. But faith, strong faith, works all these things, as the Lord says: Your faith has saved you (Luke 18:42).\n\nCHAPTER XXIX.\n\nConcerning King Charibert, who seized ecclesiastical property.\n\nIt seems that this too should not be passed over in silence: how the blessed man applies the protections of his servants for their defense in every way he commands. King Charibert, when, hating the clergy, he neglected the churches of God, and despising the priests, had turned aside more to luxury, it was brought to his ears that a certain place, which the basilica of Saint Martin had held for a long time, should be restored to the rights of his fisc. Now ancient antiquity had given that place the name Navicellae. And he, having accepted wicked counsel, quickly sent servants to subject that little property to his dominion. And when he did not rightly possess it, he seemed to have it, he ordered stablemen with horses to be directed to that place, and there he commanded the horses to be fed without any order of equity. So the servants, approaching, take the hay that had been heaped up for the expense of the horses. And when the enjoined service was being carried out diligently, and the horses had begun to consume the hay set before them, they are seized by madness.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":34,"ref":"p34","source":"Et frementes ad invicem, disruptis Ipris, per plana prosiliunt, et in fugam vertuntur; et sic male dispersi, alii excæcantur [Bee., exnecantur], alii rupibus præcipitantur, alii se sepibus ingerentes, palorum acuminibus ultro transfodiuntur. Tandem stabularii iram I Dei intelligentes, paucos extra terminum loci, quos I assequi potuerunt, expellunt, sanosque recipiunt, i nuntiantes regi rem illam injustissime retineri. Et ideo hæc cum fuissent perpessi, dixerunt: Dimitte eam, et erit pax tibi. Qui furore repletus sic dixisse fertur: Sive juste, sive injuste reddi debeat c, regnanre me, hanc basilica non habebit. Qui protinus divina jussione transitum accipiens requievit. Adveniente autem gloriosissimo Sigiherto rege in ejus regnum, ad suggestionem beati Eufronii episcopi hoc in dominio cancii Martini restituit, quod usque hodie ab ejus basilica possidetur. Audite haec omnes potestatem habentes. Sic vestite alios, ut alios non spolietis: hoc adjungite vestris divitiis, unde damnum [AL, ut damna] non inferatis ecclesijs. Vindex est enim Deus velociter servorum suorum. Et ideo monemus ut qui de Potestatibus haec legerit, non irascatur. Nam si irascitur, de se confitebitur dictum.","english":"And raging against one another, with their reins broken, they leap out over the plains and are put to flight; and thus wretchedly scattered, some are blinded, others are hurled headlong from rocks, others thrusting themselves into hedges are run through by the points of stakes. At length the grooms, understanding the anger of God, drive a few beyond the boundary of the place, as many as they could overtake, and receive them back sound, reporting to the king that that matter was most unjustly withheld. And therefore, when they had suffered these things, they said: Let it go, and you will have peace. He, filled with fury, is reported to have said thus: Whether justly or unjustly it ought to be restored, while I reign, this church shall not have it. And he, straightway receiving his passing by divine command, rested. But when the most glorious King Sigihert came into his kingdom, at the suggestion of the blessed Bishop Eufronius he restored this into the domain of Martin's estate, which is possessed by his church to this day. Hear these things, all you who have power. So clothe others that you do not despoil others; add this to your riches, that you bring no loss upon the churches. For God is a swift avenger of his servants. And therefore we warn that whoever of those in authority reads these things not be angry. For if he is angry, he will confess that it was said of himself.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":35,"ref":"p35","source":"CAPUT XXX.\n\nDe Eustochio Pictavensi.\n\nSimili conditione beatus Confessor In rebus sibi injuste ablatis apparuit. Eustochius quidam cum plerumque contra injustitiam sanctum Eufronium episcopum de hæreditate Baudulfi cognati sui pulsaret, qui haeredem basilicam sancti Martini instituerat, commotus ab eo per assiduas injurias beatus pontifex aliquid ei de rebus illis reddidit. Portante autem illo hoc ad domum suam, protinus filius ejus unicus in febrem corruit, unaque die et nocte graviicr exaestuans, exspiravit. Cui tam praesens fuit mortis occursus, quam velociter pater ejus de rebus sibi non debitis effectus est dominus. Qui in eiemplum Giezi possedit aurum, et argentum, sed, quod illi erat pretiosius, acquisita animae lepra, amisit et lilium: nee unquam meruit deinceps alium adipisci..\n\nCAPUT XXXI.\n\nDe eo qui in sanctu porticu perjuravit","english":"CHAPTER XXX.\n\nConcerning Eustochius of Poitiers.\n\nIn a like case the blessed Confessor showed himself in matters unjustly taken from him. A certain Eustochius, since he repeatedly pressed the holy bishop Eufronius with lawsuits concerning the inheritance of his kinsman Baudulf, who had made the basilica of Saint Martin his heir, the blessed pontiff, stirred by his continual injuries, restored to him something of those properties. But as he was carrying this to his own house, his only son straightway fell into a fever, and burning more grievously for one day and night, he breathed his last. So present was the onset of death to him, as swiftly as his father was made master of things not owed to him. He, after the example of Gehazi, possessed gold and silver, but—what was more precious to him—having acquired the leprosy of the soul, he lost also the lily; nor did he ever afterward deserve to obtain another.\n\nCHAPTER XXXI.\n\nConcerning him who committed perjury in the sacred portico.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":36,"ref":"p36","source":"Quam praesens et super alium ultio divina processerit, qui in sancta porticu perjuraverat, ad comprimendam perfidorum audaciam non silebo. Cum ad matraculam illam quam Sanctus suo beneficio de devotorum eleemosynis pascit quotidie a fidelibus necessaria tribuantur, consuetudinem benedicti pauperes habent, ut cum mulli ei bis per loca discesserint, custodem inibi derelinquant, qui quod luerit oblatum accipiat. Quidam ergo devotus unum triantem mercedis intuitu detulit, quem custos loci collectum fratribus occultare non metuit. Convenientes autem pauperes ad sextam, sciscitati sunt antedictum custodem quid sibi beatus pastor solita pietate respiciens transmisisset, audierant enim ibidem aliquid fuisse largitum. Qni ait cum sacramento: Per hunc sanctum locum, et virtutes domni Martini, quia hic amplius non venit, quam unus argenteus. Necdum enim verba compleverat, sed adhuc in ore sermo pendebat, cum statim tremens corruit in terram, suoque lectulo aliorum Inanibus redditus, cocpit graviter singultire. Interrogatus autem a circumstantibus quid sibi esset, respondit: Triantem illum quem pauperes requirebant, perjuravi, et ideo me praesens vindicta flagellat: sed rogo ut eum accipientes reddatis matriculae. Quo reddito, statim emisit spiritum. infelix *, qui sic ab iniqua cupiditate praeventus periit, ut et lucrum vitæ perderet, nec damna adeptae recuniae possideret.","english":"I shall not keep silent about how present and swift divine vengeance came upon another man, who had perjured himself in the holy portico, so as to check the audacity of the faithless. Since at that matricula which the Saint by his own beneficence feeds daily from the alms of the devoted, the necessities are supplied by the faithful, the blessed poor have the custom that when many of them have dispersed in various directions, they leave behind a custodian there to receive whatever has been offered. A certain devout man, therefore, brought one triens with a view to a reward, which the custodian of the place, having collected it, did not fear to conceal from the brethren. But when the poor came together at the sixth hour, they asked the aforesaid custodian what the blessed pastor, in his accustomed mercy, had sent for them; for they had heard that something had been bestowed there. And he said with an oath: By this holy place and the powers of the lord Martin, no more than one silver coin has come here. And indeed he had not yet finished his words—the speech was still hanging on his lips—when immediately, trembling, he fell to the ground, and restored to his bed, he began to sob grievously. When asked by those standing around what was the matter with him, he answered: That triens which the poor were seeking, I swore falsely about, and therefore present vengeance scourges me; but I beg you, take it and give it back to the matricula. When it had been returned, he immediately gave up the spirit—wretched man, who, thus overtaken by wicked greed, perished in such a way that he both lost the gain of life and did not possess the losses of the money he had acquired.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":37,"ref":"p37","source":"Sed ad quid non mortalia pectora cogit exsecranda cupiditas? Quae invida quondam viduae duobus minutis coeleste regnum mercanti fueras b, modo hunc per unum triantem ad ima praecipitas. Et quæ Judam appendisti laqueo in Magistri preMo, hunc per parvum numisma demergis in tartara. Satis ergo hac ad comprimendam malorum temeritatem dicta sufficiant.\n\nCAPUT XXXII.\n\nQualiter me virtu. ejus ab infirmitate restauravit incolumem,\n\nErgo his exactis, quae circa alios gesta sunt, aggrediar quae circa me indignum virtus praesentis est operata patroni. Anno 1G3 post assumptionem sancti ac praedicabilis viri beati Martini antistiLis, regente ecclesiam Turonicam sancto Eufronio episcopo anno 7, anno Sigiberti gloriosissimi rcgis c, irrui in valetudinem cum pustulis malis et febre, negatoque usu potus atque cibi, ita angebar, ut amissa omni spe vitae praesentis, de solis sepulturæ necessariis cogitarem. Obsidebat enim membra febris assidua a cum ardore, animam cupiens expugnare de corpore. Tunc jam valde exanimis, invocato nomine beati Martini antistitis, parumper convalui, et lento adhuc conamine iter incipio praeparare; insederat enim animis ut locum venerabilis sepulcri visitare deberem. Unde tanto desiderio alfectus sum, ut nec vivere me optarem e, si tardius dircxissem. Et qui vix evaseram ex nrdore incommodi, coepi iterum desiderii febre succendi.","english":"But to what end does accursed greed not drive mortal hearts? You who once, in envy, sold the kingdom of heaven to a widow for two small coins, now cast this man down to the depths for a single triens. And you who hanged Judas with a noose in the betrayal of the Master, now plunge this man into Tartarus for a small coin. Let what has been said suffice, then, to check the rashness of the wicked.\n\nCHAPTER XXXII.\n\nHow the power of the saint restored me to health from sickness.\n\nTherefore, these matters being concluded which were done concerning others, I shall undertake to tell what the power of our present patron accomplished concerning me, unworthy as I am. In the 163rd year after the assumption of the holy and praiseworthy man the blessed Martin, bishop, while the holy bishop Eufronius was governing the church of Tours in the seventh year, in the year of the most glorious king Sigibert, I fell into sickness with grievous pustules and fever, and with the use of drink and food denied me, I was so afflicted that, all hope of the present life being lost, I thought only of the necessities of burial. For a persistent fever with burning laid siege to my limbs, seeking to drive the soul from the body. Then, already greatly exhausted, having invoked the name of the blessed Martin, bishop, I recovered a little, and with my strength still slow I began to prepare for the journey; for it had settled in my mind that I ought to visit the place of the venerable tomb. From this I was affected with such desire that I did not wish to live if I had set out too late. And I, who had scarcely escaped from the burning of my affliction, began again to be inflamed with the fever of desire.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":38,"ref":"p38","source":"Nee mora, adhuc parum fortis iter cum meis arripio, actisque vel duabus vel tribus mansionibus ingressas silvas, corrui rursus in febrem, et tam graviter agere coepi, ut omnes me autumarent vitam amittere. Tunc accedentes amici, et videntes me valde lassum, dicebant: Revertamur ad propria; et si te Deus vocare voluerit, in domo tua morere; si autem evaseris, votivum iter facilius explicabis. Satius est enim reverti ad domum quam mori in eremo. Ego vero haec audiens, vehementer Jacrymabar; et plangens infelicitatem meam, locutus sum cum eis, dicens: Adjuro vos per omnipotentem Deum, et reis omnibus metuendum judicii diem, ut ad ea quæ rogo consentiatis. De coepto itinere non desistite; et si mereor sancti Martini videre basilicam, gratias ago Deo meo; sin aliud, vel exanime corpus deCerentes ibidem sepelite, quia deliberatio mea e*t, non reverti domum, si non ejus sepulcro meruero praesentari. Tunc una pariter flentes, iter quod creperamus aggredimur. Praecedente ergo praesidio gloriosi domni, ad basilicam ejus advenimus.","english":"Without delay, while I was still only a little strong, I set out on the journey with my companions, and after two or three days' stages we entered the woods; then I fell back into fever and began to be so gravely ill that everyone thought I would lose my life. Then my friends came near and, seeing me utterly worn out, said: \"Let us return home; and if God wishes to call you, die in your own house; but if you recover, you will more easily complete the journey you have vowed. For it is better to return home than to die in the wilderness.\" But when I heard this, I wept bitterly; and lamenting my wretchedness, I spoke to them, saying: \"I adjure you by almighty God and by the day of judgment, to be feared by all the guilty, that you consent to what I ask. Do not desist from the journey we have begun; and if I am found worthy to see the basilica of Saint Martin, I give thanks to my God; but if not, then carry my lifeless body and bury it there, because my resolve is not to return home unless I am found worthy to be present at his tomb.\" Then, weeping together as one, we undertook the journey we had begun. So with the protection of the glorious lord going before us, we came to his basilica.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":39,"ref":"p39","source":"CAPUT XXXIII.\n\nDe clerico nostro amente.\n\nEo tempore uuus ex clericis meis, Armentarius nomine, bene erudltus in spiritualibus Scripturis, cui tam facile erat sonorum modulationes apprehendere, ut eum nou putares hoc meditari, sed,scribere, in servitio valde strenuus, et in commisso fidelis. IIic vero, inficiente veneno, a pustulis malis omnem sensum perdiderat, et ita redactus fuerat, ut nihil penitus aut intelligere posset, aut agere. Tertia autem nocte postquam adveuilnus ad sanctam basilicam, vigilare disposuimus, quod et implevimus. Mane autem facto, signo ad matutinas commoto 1, reversi sumus ad metatum [Ed., dormitum]: qui lectulis quiescentes, usque ad horam prope secundam dormivimus. Expergefactus ergo, amota omni languoris et cordis amaritudine, sentio me pristinam recepisse sanitatem, et, gaudens, puerum familiarem, qui mihi servirer, evoco. Exsurgens autem Armentarius velociter coram me stetit, et ait: Domine ego parabo quod jusseris. At ego existimans adhuc esse eum exsensum: Vade, aio, si potes, voca puerum. Et ait: Ego quaecunque præceperis adimplebo. Obstupefactus interrogo quid hoc esset. Qui ait: Intelligo me valde sanum, sed unus error est animo, quod nescio de qua parte huc advenerim. Et incipiens ita mihi impendit servitium, sicut erat solitus ante tædium i.","english":"CHAPTER XXXIII.\n\nConcerning our cleric who was out of his mind.\n\nAt that time one of my clerics, by name Armentarius, well instructed in the spiritual Scriptures, for whom it was as easy to grasp the modulations of sounds that you would not think he was pondering this but writing it, very vigorous in service and faithful in what was entrusted to him. But he, with the poison spreading, had lost all his senses from evil pustules, and had been reduced to such a state that he could understand or do nothing at all. But on the third night after we came to the holy basilica, we arranged to keep vigil, and this we fulfilled. When morning came, the signal having been given for matins, we returned to our lodging; resting in our beds, we slept until nearly the second hour. Having awakened, therefore, with all the weariness and bitterness of heart removed, I perceive that I have received my former health, and, rejoicing, I summon the household boy who was to serve me. But Armentarius rose up quickly and stood before me, and said: Lord, I will prepare whatever you command. And I, thinking that he was still out of his senses, said: Go, if you can, call the boy. And he said: I will fulfill whatever you command. Astonished, I asked what this was. And he said: I understand that I am thoroughly well, but there is one confusion in my mind, that I do not know from what direction I came here. And beginning, he rendered me service just as he had been accustomed before his illness.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":40,"ref":"p40","source":"Tunc ego exsultans et dens prae gaudio, gratias omnipotenti Deo tam pro me, quam, pro ipso refero, quod intercedente patrono iucolumem me corpore, illum mente reddiderit, et unus occursus ei fide eliam alteri amenti, qui nec petere noverat, salutem præstitisset. Sed nec hoc præteribo, quod post dies quadraginta eodem die primo vinum delectatus sum bibere, cum illud, faciente incommodo, usque tunc exosum habuerim.\n\nCAPUT XXXIV.\n\nQuod virtus 'eju: ab agro nostro tempestatem prohi buit.\n\nNos vero revertentes ires cereolos pro benediclione beati sepulcri portavimus: de qua cera quam multae virtutes factæ sunt super frigoriticis et aliis infirmis, longum est enarrare. Sed unum e multis miraculum proferam. Agrum qnemdam possessionis nostrae grando annis singulis vastare consueverat, et tam graviter saeviebat, ut nihil ibidem cum venisset relinqueret. Tunc ego in vineis illisarborem unam, quæ erat excelsior cæteris, eligens, de sancta cera super eam posui. Post illam autem diem usque in praesens tempus nunquam ibidem tempestas cecidit, sed veniens, locum ilium tanquam timens praeteriit.","english":"Then I, exulting and gnashing my teeth for joy, gave thanks to almighty God both for myself and for him, because through the intercession of the patron he had restored me sound in body and him sound in mind, and a single encounter had, by faith, granted healing even to another madman, who did not even know how to ask. But I will not pass over this either, that after forty days, on that same day, I first took delight in drinking wine, when until then, because of the discomfort it caused, I had held it in loathing.\n\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\n\nThat the power of the same man kept a storm from our field.\n\nBut we, returning, carried away wax tapers for the blessing of the blessed tomb; and how many miracles were wrought from that wax upon the feverish and other sick persons, it would take long to recount. But I will bring forward one miracle out of many. A certain field of our estate the hail had been accustomed to ravage year by year, and it raged so severely that, when it came, it left nothing there. Then I, choosing in those vineyards one tree that was taller than the rest, placed some of the holy wax upon it. But after that day, up to the present time, no storm has ever fallen there, but coming, it passed by that place as if fearing it.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":41,"ref":"p41","source":"CAPUT XXXV.\n\nDe ligno beati cancelli ad nos delato.\n\nFide commonente, quidam a ex nostris lignum venerabile de cancello lectuli, quod est ad monasterium sancti Domni, me nesciente, detulerat, quod in hospitiolo suo pro salvatione retinebat. Sed, credo, quia non sic honorabatur, aut diligebatur, ut sihi decuerat b, coepit familia ejus graviter aegrotare. Et cam penitus nesciretur quid hoc esset, nec emendaretur aliquid, sed quotidie ageretur deterius c, vidit in visu noctis personam terribilem, dicentem sibi: Cur sic tecum agitur? Qui ait: Ignoro prorsus unde hoc evenerit. Dicit ei persona. Lignum, quod de lectulo domni Martini tulisti, negligenter tecum hic retines, ideo hæc incurristi. Sed vade nunc, et defer illud Gregorio diacono, et ipse illud secum retineat. At ille nihil moratus mihi exhibuit. Quod ego cum summa veneratione collectum loco digno reposui. Et sic omnis familia in domo ejus sanata est, ita ut nemo ibidem deinceps aliquid mali perferret.","english":"CHAPTER XXXV.\n\nConcerning the wood of the blessed lattice brought to us.\n\nAt the prompting of faith, a certain man among our people, without my knowledge, had carried off a venerable piece of wood from the lattice of the bed which is at the monastery of Saint Domnus, and was keeping it in his little lodging for his own safety. But, I believe, because it was not honored or cherished as was fitting, his household began to fall gravely ill. And since it was not known at all what this was, nor was any remedy applied, but day by day matters grew worse, he saw in a vision of the night a fearsome figure saying to him: Why are you thus dealt with? He replied: I do not know at all whence this has come about. The figure said to him: The wood which you took from the bed of the lord Martin you are carelessly keeping here with you; for this reason you have suffered these things. But go now, and bring it to Gregory the deacon, and let him keep it with him. And he, without any delay, presented it to me. I gathered it up with the utmost veneration and placed it in a worthy place. And so his whole household in that house was healed, so that thereafter no one there suffered any harm.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":42,"ref":"p42","source":"CAPUT XXXVI.\n\nQuod virtus ejus nobis inimicos inhibuit.\n\nFactum est autem quodam tempore, ut visitationis studio ad venerabileln malrem meam in Burgundiam ambularem. Cum autem silvas illas quae trans Berberem fluviuni siue sunt præterirem, la. trones incurrimus. Qui circumdantes nos, volebant spoliare et interficere. Tunc ego ad auxilia consueta confugiens, sancti Martini præsidium flagitabam. Quod mihi protinus dignanter assisteus, ita eos conterruit, ut nihil contra nos agere possent. Sed versa vice qui venerant ut timerentur, timere coeperunt, et cursu velocissimo fugere. Sed ego non immemor Apostoli dicentis, inimicos nostros potu ciboque debere satiari (Rom. XII, 20), potum eis offerri praecipio. Qui nequaquam exspectantes, quantum poterant, fugiebant. Crederes eos fustibus agi, aut invitos contra possibilitatem caballorum suorum currere cogi; et sic, tribuente Domino, et juvanae patrono, quo dirigebamus e advenimus. De quantis me tribulationibus et aerumnis eripuit, in quantis mihi necessitatibus sua pietas astitit, vel quantas in me amaritudines sua virtute compescuit, non dicam ad scribendum, sed etiam ad referendum perl ngum est.","english":"CHAPTER XXXVI.\n\nThat his power held back our enemies from us.\n\nIt came about at a certain time that, for the sake of visiting, I was traveling to Burgundy to my venerable mother. Now when I was passing through those forests which lie beyond the river Berber, we ran into robbers. Surrounding us, they wanted to despoil and kill us. Then I, fleeing to my accustomed aids, implored the protection of Saint Martin. He, promptly and graciously standing by me, so terrified them that they could do nothing against us. But by a reversal, those who had come to be feared began to fear, and to flee with the swiftest course. But I, not unmindful of the Apostle who says that our enemies ought to be fed with drink and food (Rom. 12:20), ordered drink to be offered to them. They, not waiting at all, fled as fast as they could. You would think they were being driven with clubs, or compelled unwillingly to run beyond the ability of their horses; and so, with the Lord granting it and the patron of youth aiding, we arrived where we were heading. From how many tribulations and hardships he snatched me, in how many necessities his mercy stood by me, or how many bitter troubles he restrained in me by his power, it is long to tell—not to say to write.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":43,"ref":"p43","source":"CAPUT XXXVII.\n\nDe dysentericis.\n\nQuid de dysentericis dicam, ubi tam velociter invenitur medela, quam fidciiter fucrit inquisita? Nam vidi mulierem a dysenteria per quinque menses graviter laborantem, ita ut cum nccessitas commoveret, inter manus ad loca necessaria transferretur, quae simul et confortationem cibi, et virtutem corpusculi superflue digerendo perdiderat; me indice novi hanc ad basilicam vigilasse. Reddito autem post nocturnas tenebras die, abraso beati tumuli pulvere f, et remedium hausisse simui et poculum; eamque domi propriis gressibus fuisse redditam, quoe veniens ab aliis fuerat sustentata.\n\nCAPUT XXXVIII.\n\nDe energumenis et frigoriticis.\n\nVel quid ego de energumenis vel frigoriticis referam, quibus si vere fuerint parcitas et fides conjunctae, mox adminiculante patrono, cunctæ [Ed., mente] submoventur insidiæ? Sic multi ex frigoriticis, dum vi febris pessime quatiuntur, tota dic inter altarium ct sanctum tumulum decubantes, ad vesperum autcm hausto ex beati scpulcri pulvere, continuo promerentur accipere sanitatem. Nam Paulus energumenus, qui legionem daemoniorum diccbatur habere, insistente inimico, machinam, quæ sancUc cameræ erat propinqua, conscendens, dixisse fertur: Percat vasculum, quod exustus * inhabito.","english":"CHAPTER XXXVII.\n\nConcerning those with dysentery.\n\nWhat shall I say concerning those with dysentery, where the remedy is found as swiftly as it was faithfully sought? For I saw a woman gravely afflicted with dysentery for five months, so that when necessity compelled her, she was carried by hand to the necessary places, and she had lost both the strengthening of food and the strength of her little body through excessive passing of waste; at my urging, I know that she kept vigil at the basilica. But when day was restored after the night's darkness, the dust of the blessed tomb having been scraped off, she both drank down the remedy and the cup at once; and she returned home on her own feet, who had come supported by others.\n\nCHAPTER XXXVIII.\n\nConcerning the possessed and the feverish.\n\nOr what shall I tell concerning the possessed or the feverish, for whom, if frugality and faith have truly been joined together, presently, with the patron aiding, all snares are removed? Thus many of the feverish, while they are sorely shaken by the violence of fever, lying all day between the altar and the holy tomb, but at evening having drunk the dust from the blessed sepulcher, straightway merited to receive health. For Paul, a possessed man, who was said to have a legion of demons, with the enemy pressing upon him, climbing onto the structure that was near the holy chamber, is reported to have said: Let the vessel perish, which I, burned up, inhabit.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":44,"ref":"p44","source":"Et exacstuans, et praecipitans se deorsum, ita beati virtute leviter in pavimentum depositus est, ut nullum membrorum damnati corpusculi collideret.\n\nCAPUT XXXIX.,\n\nDe Leomeria cæca.\n\nJ Leomeria [ Bec., Deomena ] quaedam caeca atqoe contracta, longo tempore miserabiliter vivens, dum iter illud per manus aliorum crebris occursibus utitur, quoad Beati basilicam itur, tandem ab ejus pietate respecta, jacens ad sanctum ostium, lumen pariter gressumque recepit. si 'oium proderetur in publicum, quod singuli quique, dum fideliter poscunt, lalenter accipiunt, et retinet occullum multorum conscientia, quod fideliter poscendo clam quaesita sanitas est adepta Quod si hæc, ut diximus, cuncta publicarentur, non solum libros, sed nec ipsum mundum, ut ait evangelista de Domino, arbitror potuisse rccipere (Joan. XXI, 35).\n\nCAPUT XL.\n\nDe Securo contracto.","english":"And struggling and throwing himself down, he was by the blessed one's power so gently laid upon the pavement that he did not dash any limb of his condemned little body.\n\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\n\nConcerning Leomeria, a blind woman.\n\nA certain Leomeria, blind and crippled, living wretchedly for a long time, while she made use of that road by the hands of others in frequent visits, as far as the blessed one's basilica, at length looked upon by his loving-kindness, lying at the holy entrance, she received both light and the power of walking. If all these things were made public, because each person, when they ask faithfully, receives secretly, and the conscience of many keeps hidden what has been obtained, because health sought in secret by faithful asking was attained. But if all these things, as we have said, were made public, I think that not only books, but not even the world itself, as the evangelist says concerning the Lord, could contain them (John XXI, 35).\n\nCHAPTER XL.\n\nConcerning Securus, a cripple.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":45,"ref":"p45","source":"Et quoniam sermo clausulam petit, unum vobis adhuc praeclarum mir.tculum priusquam liber finem accipiat, enarrabo. Adolescens quidam, nomine Securus, ex utero matris egrediens, manum aridam pedemque protulerat, et ita omnium membrorum siccata compage diriguerat, ut monstrum aliquod simularet: crat autem et jugo servitutis innexus. Quem cum viderent domini sui jam per septem annos nihil omnino posse proficere, manibus deportantes posuerunt eum ante beatum sepulcrum, ut vel a praetereuntibus pasceretur, qui labore proprio ali non poterat. Jacente autem eo in loco illo per multos dies, directus est pes ejus qui fuerat debilis, manusque ejus sicca, infectis sanguine venis, sanata est: et ita omni corpore, accepta beati Confessoris ope, formatus est [Ed., sanatus], ut putares eum denuo fuisse renatum. Qui puerulus a Justino comite redemptus, et ingenuus dimissus est: et postea baptismum consecutus, usque hodie sub patrocinio sanctae ecclesiæ persislit incolumis. Quis unquam ista sic ex ordine inquirere, aut referre polcrit, ut ex aequo laudare sufficiat? Tamen nos, quantum investigare potuimus, scribere fideliter studuimus, banc sperantes retributionem mercedis accipere, ut dum baec leguntur in laudem sanctissimi Sacerdotis, nobis fortasse tribuatur refrigerium pro delictis a, dicente poeta: Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit.","english":"And since a discourse seeks its conclusion, I shall relate to you one more glorious miracle before the book comes to an end. A certain young man, by name Securus, coming forth from his mother's womb, brought out a withered hand and foot, and so had he stiffened with the whole frame of his limbs dried up, that he resembled some monstrosity; he was also bound under the yoke of servitude. When his masters saw that for seven years now he could make no progress at all, carrying him in their hands they placed him before the blessed tomb, so that he might at least be fed by those passing by, since he could not be nourished by his own labor. But as he lay in that place for many days, his foot which had been weak was made straight, and his withered hand, its veins having been infused with blood, was healed; and so in his whole body, having received the aid of the blessed Confessor, he was formed [healed], so that you would think he had been born anew. This little boy was redeemed by Count Justinus and set free as a freeborn man; and afterward, having obtained baptism, he has remained safe to this day under the patronage of the holy church. Who could ever so inquire into these things in order, or report them, as to be able to praise them worthily? Nevertheless, as far as we have been able to investigate, we have striven to write faithfully, hoping to receive this recompense of reward, that while these things are read in praise of the most holy Priest, refreshment may perhaps be granted to us for our sins, as the poet says: Perhaps it will be a joy even to remember these things one day.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":46,"ref":"p46","source":"Explicit liber primus.\n\nLIBER SECUNDUS. DE VIRTUTIBUS QUÆ FAM SUNT POSTQUAM VENIMUS NOS.\n\nprologus.\n\nQnoniam perscriptis virtutibus sancti Martini, quas vidimus, vel a fidelibus viris de anteacto tempore reperire potuimus, ardentes valde in bac siti, ut non traderetur oblivioni quod Dominus exercere dignatus est in laudem Antistitis sui a, libellum primum explicuimus; narrare etiam ea cupimus quae nostro tempore agi miramur, relinquentes non parvam materiam eloquenLioribus, sumentes autem magnalia virtutum in nostris operibus, ut quod peritia non dilatat in paginis, numerositas virtutum extendat in cumulis.\n\nCAPUT PRIMUM.\n\nQualiter a febre et dysenteria erutus sum.\n\nAnno post transitum beati Martini antistilis, Sigiberto gloriesissimo rege duodecimo annob regnante, post excessum sancti Eufronii episcopi, non meo merito, cum sim conscientia teterrimus, ei peccatis obvolutus, sed tribucnic fidcli Deo, qui vocal ca quæ non sunt, tanquam ea quæ sunt, onus episcopalUS indignus accepi. Mense autem secundo ordinaHonis meae, cum essem in villa c, incurri dysenteriam cum febre valida, et taliter agi coepi, ut imminente morte vivere omnimodis desperarem.","english":"The first book ends here.\n\nBOOK TWO. CONCERNING THE VIRTUES THAT WERE MADE AFTER WE CAME.\n\nPrologue.\n\nSince, having written down the virtues of Saint Martin which we have seen, or which we have been able to discover from faithful men concerning past time, we were burning greatly with this thirst, that what the Lord deigned to work in praise of His bishop should not be handed over to oblivion, we have finished the first little book; we desire also to narrate those things which we marvel are done in our own time, leaving no small material to the more eloquent, but taking up the mighty works of virtues in our own writings, so that what skill does not expand on the pages, the abundance of virtues may extend in heaps.\n\nCHAPTER ONE.\n\nHow I was rescued from fever and dysentery.\n\nIn the year after the passing of the blessed Martin, bishop, when the most glorious King Sigibert was reigning in his twelfth year, after the death of the holy bishop Eufronius, not by my own merit, since in conscience I am most foul and wrapped in sins, but by the favor of the faithful God, who calls those things that are not as though they were, I unworthily received the burden of the episcopate. But in the second month of my ordination, when I was at my estate, I fell into dysentery with a violent fever, and I began to be afflicted in such a way that, with death imminent, I despaired utterly of living.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":47,"ref":"p47","source":"Emittebam autem assidue digestionum officia, quæ aecipere non poterant inexpensa, et erat horror cibi; cumque ab inedia dciicerel virtus stomachi, febris tantum erat victus corpori Nam nullatenus accedebat confortatio sumptuosa: erat autem et dolor gravis totam alvum penetrans, et descendens ad ilia, non me minus consumens tortura sua quam febris exegerat. Cumque sic ageretur mecum, ut non remansisset spes vitan, sed cuncta deputarentur in funere, nec valeret penitus medici antidotum, quem mors mancipaverat ad perdendum, ego ipse de me desperans, vocavi Armentarium archiatrum, et dico ei: On1ne ingenium artificii tui impendisti, pigmentorum omnium vim jam probasti, sed nihil proficit perituro res saeculi. Unum restat quod faciam, magnam tibi theriacam ostendam. Pulverem de sacratissimo domui Martini sepulcro exhibe, etexinde mihi facito potionem. Quod si hoc non valuerit, amissa sunt omnia evadendi perfugia. Tunc misso diacono ad antedietum beati Præsulis tumulum, de sacrosanrto pulvere exhibuit, dilutumque mihi porrigunt ad bibendum. Quo hausto, mox omni dolore sedato, sanitatem recepi de tumulo. In quo tam præsens fuit beneficium, ut cum id actum fuerit hora tertia, incolumis procederem ad convivium ipsa die hora sexta a.","english":"I was constantly discharging the offices of digestion, which could not take in what was unexpended, and there was a horror of food; and when the strength of my stomach was failing from hunger, fever was the only nourishment for my body. For no strengthening sustenance came to me at all; there was also a severe pain penetrating my whole belly and descending to the flanks, consuming me by its torture no less than the fever had exhausted me. And when matters were such with me that no hope of life remained, but everything was being reckoned toward a funeral, and the physician's remedy was utterly of no avail for one whom death had claimed to destroy, I myself, despairing of myself, called Armentarius the chief physician and said to him: You have spent all the skill of your art, you have already tested the power of all medicines, but nothing profits a man who is about to perish from the things of this world. One thing remains for me to do: I will show you a great theriac. Bring out dust from the most sacred tomb of the house of Martin, and from it make me a potion. But if this does not avail, all refuges of escape are lost. Then, a deacon having been sent to the aforementioned tomb of the blessed bishop, he brought out some of the sacred dust, and having diluted it they gave it to me to drink. When I had drunk it, all pain was immediately assuaged, and I received health from the tomb. In this the benefit was so immediate that, when this was done at the third hour, I walked out healthy to the banquet on that same day at the sixth hour.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":48,"ref":"p48","source":"Visum est et hoc insererelectioni, qualiter me Deus arguerit, ne ante me permitterem stultos et faciles de beatis solemnibus obtrectare. In crastino autem postquarm convalui, die Dominico ad missam veniens, nolensque me fatigare, uni presbyterorum gloriosa solemnia celebrare pra'cepi. SeJ cum presbyter ille nescio quæ rustice festiva verba depromeret c, mul i eum de nostris irridere lEd., increpare] coeperunt, dicentes: Melius fuisset tacere, quam sic inculte Inqui. Nocte autem insecuta, vidi virum dicentem mihi: De mysteriis Dei nequaquam disputandum. Test enim Deum, quia hoc a me non est compositum,?cd ipsa verba quæ audivi, vobis exposui. Unde, dilectissimi, nullus de hoc mysterio [ Mart., ministerio ], etiam si rustice videatur dici, disputare praesumat, quia apud Dei majestatem magis simplicitas pura quam philosophorum valet argutia.","english":"It seemed good to insert this also into my account: how God reproved me, so that I would not allow foolish and easygoing men to disparage the sacred solemnities before me. On the next day, after I had recovered, coming to Mass on the Lord's day, and not wishing to tire myself, I ordered one of the presbyters to celebrate the glorious solemnities. But when that presbyter brought forth certain festive words in a rustic manner, many of our people began to mock and rebuke him, saying: \"It would have been better to be silent than to speak so uncouthly.\" But on the following night I saw a man saying to me: \"There is to be no disputing at all about the mysteries of God. I call God to witness that this was not composed by me, but the very words that I heard, I have set before you. Therefore, most beloved, let no one presume to dispute about this mystery—even if it seems to be spoken in a rustic manner—because before the majesty of God pure simplicity avails more than the subtlety of philosophers.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":49,"ref":"p49","source":"CAPUT II.\n\nDe infirmitate Justini.\n\nGratum arbitratus sum et illud non omittere, quod mih! in libro anteriore excidit. Nam cum retulerirn de cereolis illis quos de sepulcro beati Antistitis sustuli, a quibus et tempestates sedatas, et alias infirmitates prohibitas dixi, hos cum mecum detinerem, Justinus vir sororis meæ in valetudinem irruit. Nam, invalescente febre, cum doloribus membrorum omnium, valde ad extremum agi ccepit. Nuntius haec ad me delatus retulit, efUagitans ut si quid medicamenti reperire possem, morituro transmitterem, ne obiret. At ego in virtute beati Antistitis confisus, unum ex cereolis transmitto per puerum, dicens: Accendite illum coram eo, et in contempta. tione luminis orationem fundat ad Dominum, et deprecetur omnipotentiam [Rom., potentiam] Antistitis, ut ei succurrat. Missus autem puer quod dederam deportavit. Quo accenso ante lectum ægroti, favillam scirpi, quem jam ignis consumpserat, cultro eradunt, dilutumque aqua ægroto porrigunt ad bibendum. At ille ut hausit, sanitatem protinus recepit, incolumisque redditus est. Nobis postea qualiter sibi virtus beati Antistitis subvenit, exposuit.","english":"CHAPTER II.\n\nConcerning the illness of Justinus.\n\nI judged it fitting not to omit this as well, which escaped me in the earlier book. For when I had related about those candles which I took from the tomb of the blessed bishop, by which I said both storms were calmed and other illnesses warded off, while I kept these with me, Justinus, the husband of my sister, fell into ill health. For as the fever grew stronger, with pains in all his limbs, he began to be brought to the utmost extremity. A messenger, having been sent to me, reported these things, earnestly entreating that if I could find any remedy, I would send it to the dying man, lest he perish. But I, trusting in the power of the blessed bishop, send one of the candles by a boy, saying: Light it before him, and in contempt of the light let him pour out a prayer to the Lord, and beseech the omnipotence of the bishop, that he may come to his aid. The boy who was sent carried what I had given. When it had been lit before the sick man's bed, they scrape off with a knife the ash of the rush, which the fire had already consumed, and, having diluted it with water, they hold it out to the sick man to drink. And when he had drunk it, he straightway received health, and was restored whole. Afterwards he explained to us how the power of the blessed bishop came to his aid.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":50,"ref":"p50","source":"Nam referrc erat solitus, quod ubi primum oculis rjus jubar luminis progressum a cereo pepulit tenebras noctis, protinus in contemplatione flammæ febris recessit a corpore, ac stomachus qui diu languerat inedia, cibum consolationis efflagitat, et qui tantum aquam puram ad restinguendum febris ardorem haurire consueverat, nunc vinum desiderat. Facit hæc virtus Antistitis, quae sEpe miseris opem proflua miseratione tribuit, et infirmis medicamenta largitur.\n\nCAP!JT III.\n\nDe Maurusa chiragrica.\n\nVereor ne nimium progredi praesumens, obsoleat paginam sermo rusticior. Maurusam quamdam graviter chiragrici humoris dolor affecerat, ita ut retortis ad crura pcdibus, nulfatenus se erigere posset. Erat enim et oculorum Iuc8 mulctata; quæ longo tempore graviter agens, tanquam mortua putabatur superstes, nec erat ei spes alimonia?, nisi aliquis ei manum misericord ae porrexisset. Quotidie autem respectum intuens devotorum, victus necessaria deposccbat. actum est autem ut quodam temporc extra solitum gravius ageret, nec poterat quemquam judicare membrorum, nisi tantum in pectore flatus spiraminis discurrebat f. Quae jam valde exanimis rogavit ut eam ad pedes sancti Martini deferrent. Ad quem locum cum man bus fidelium fuisset illata, dolore cogente, vociferans beati Viri auxilium, ut sibi misereretur orabat.","english":"For he was accustomed to relate that as soon as the radiance of the advancing light from the candle drove away the darkness of night from his eyes, straightway, at the contemplation of the flame, the fever receded from his body, and the stomach, which had long languished from fasting, demanded the food of consolation; and he who had been accustomed to drink only pure water to quench the burning of the fever now desired wine. This the power of the Bishop brings about, which often grants help to the wretched with overflowing compassion, and bestows remedies upon the sick.\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nConcerning Maurusa, the woman with the gout in her hand.\n\nI fear lest, presuming to go too far, my rather rustic speech may grow stale upon the page. A certain Maurusa had been afflicted by the pain of a gouty humor in the hand so severely that, with her feet twisted back toward her legs, she could in no way raise herself up. For she had also been deprived of the light of her eyes; and she, suffering grievously for a long time, was thought to be a living corpse rather than alive, and she had no hope of nourishment unless someone extended a hand of mercy to her. Each day, however, looking to the regard of the devout, she begged for the necessities of life. It came about, moreover, that at a certain time she was suffering more grievously than usual, and she could not discern anyone with her limbs, save only that breath of breathing moved about in her breast. And now, all but lifeless, she asked that they carry her to the feet of the blessed Martin. When she had been brought to that place by the hands of the faithful, compelled by pain, she cried out and prayed for the aid of the blessed man, that he would have mercy on her.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":51,"ref":"p51","source":"Tandem pietas illa respiciens, quæ pauperes dimittere nunquam consuevit inanes, in festivitate sua laxata sunt fila nervorum arentium, et sic de dextera, qnam per sex annos non judicaverat, signum leatae crucis ad os faciens, in pedibus restituta est, ita ut ad hospitiolum suum nullius usa adjutorio remearet, eculorum lumine non reeepto. Post annos autem duos iterum veniens ad beati patroni tumulum, coepit attentius, sicut erat opportuuum, orare: mox apertis oculis, in rediviva luce surrexit. Hanc virtutem ideo hic scripsimus, quia postquam huc advenimus, illuminati est. Nam antea a debilitate sanata fuerat.\n\nCAPUT IV.\n\nDe servo Simoni. presbyteri.\n\nSimonis fidelissimi compresbyteri nostri servus, Veranus nomine, qui erat ci in commissis promplua-, viis probalus *, dum ad custodiam sibi dispositam resideret, superveniente humore podagrico, pcdum gressu mulctatur. Qui cum per totum annum talibus dGloribus vexaretur, ut etiam viciniam in proximo positam commoveret, contractis subito nervis, ad plenum debilitatur. Quod videns dominus ejus, dolens exitum fidelis vernaeuli, jussit eum ad pedes beati Antistitis deportari, promittens votum, et dicens: Si eum reddideris sanitati, piissime domne Martine, in illa die absolutus a mei servitii vinculo, humiliatis rEd., incisis] capillis tuo servitio delegetur.","english":"At last that compassion which never customarily sends the poor away empty, looking upon her, on her own festival the cords of her withered sinews were loosened, and thus with her right hand, which she had not been able to use for six years, making the sign of the saving cross over her mouth, she was restored on her feet, so that she returned to her little lodging without the aid of anyone, though she had not received the light of her eyes. After two years, however, coming again to the tomb of the blessed patron, she began to pray more intently, as was fitting; presently, with her eyes opened, she rose in renewed light. We have written this miracle here for this reason, that she was enlightened after we arrived here. For beforehand she had been healed of her weakness.\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nConcerning the servant of Simon the presbyter.\n\nThe servant of Simon, our most faithful fellow presbyter, by name Veranus, who was prompt in the duties entrusted to him and approved in his ways, while he sat at the guard assigned to him, was deprived of the use of his feet when a gouty humor came upon him. And when he had been vexed for a whole year by such afflictions that he even disturbed the neighborhood situated nearby, his sinews being suddenly contracted, he was completely disabled. Seeing this, his master, grieving over the fate of his faithful little slave, ordered him to be carried to the feet of the blessed Bishop, promising a vow and saying: If you restore him to health, most merciful lord Martin, on that day, released from the bond of my service, with his hair shaved low, he shall be assigned to your service.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":52,"ref":"p52","source":"Podtus ergo ad pedes pretiosissimi Domni, cum per quinque dies ibidem jaceret immobilis, sexta die sopore comprimitur; et obdormienti visum est ei, tanquam si in lectulo solitus sit homo pedem extendere I. Expergefactus autem sanus ab omni debilitate surrexit. Qui tonsurato capite, et accepta libertate, ibidem beati Domni usibus nunc deservit. admirabilem beati viri redemptionem! Quis unquam de mille talentis sic. redemit, sicut praesens nostrorom criminum suffragator? qui uno ictu,unoquc momento, sine numismate auri, et corpus a debilitate, et conditionem absolvit ab onere.\n\nCAPUT V.\n\nDe paralytico Autisiodarensi.\n\nQuidam ex Autisiodorensi oppido, Manlulfus a nomine, deferentium manibus.ad beati Martini sepulcrum'jactatus est. Qui jugi oratione et jejunio incumbens, pedes quos intortos exhibuerat, reddila subito sanitare retulit in usum consuetum directos; et ita Sancti virtute, quodimmodo reformatus est, ut qui aliorum manibus deportabatur, propriis firmatus vestigiis, praesentibus nobis, consurgeret sospes.","english":"Podtus therefore lay at the feet of the most precious lord, motionless, for five days; on the sixth day he was overcome by sleep. And as he slept, it seemed to him as though he were a man accustomed to stretch out his foot in bed. Waking, however, he rose sound from all weakness. With his head shorn and having received his freedom, he now serves the needs of the blessed lord in that same place. O admirable redemption of the blessed man! Who ever redeemed from a thousand talents as this present advocate for our sins did? Who in one stroke and one moment, without a coin of gold, both freed the body from weakness and released a slave's condition from its burden.\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nConcerning the paralytic of Auxerre.\n\nA certain man from the town of Auxerre, by name Manlulfus, was cast down at the blessed Martin's tomb by the hands of those carrying him. Devoting himself to continual prayer and fasting, he suddenly brought back the feet which he had presented twisted, restored to health and directed to their customary use; and so by the power of the saint he was reformed in that very moment, so that he who was carried by the hands of others rose up healed, strengthened on his own feet, in our presence.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":53,"ref":"p53","source":"CAPUT VI.\n\nDe paralytico Aurelianensi.\n\nAlius autem paralyticus cx Aurclianensi territorio carruca devectus, venit ad sanctam basilicam: qui diebus multis jacens ad ostium illud, quod secus baptisterium ad medium diem pandit egressum, beati Antistitis implorabat auxilium. Factum est autem, ut una die jacens gravius extra solitum torqueretur, ita ut vicini de proximo ad ejus voces concurrerent e. Dissolvebantur autem ligaturæ nervorum ejus, et dirigebantur, propterea erat dolor intolerabilis; et sic, tribuente patrono, erectus super plantas, flens prae gaudio, populo teste surrexit. Qui continuo clericus factus, et in sospiLate firmatus, ad domum regressus est.\n\nCAPUT VII.\n\nDe paralytico ex Biturigo.\n\nSed et alius gressu debilis, nomine Leuboveus, jam clericus adveniens, super terram se trahens, quia paupertate faciente non habebat qui eum ferret, de die in diem beati Martini limina requirebat. Qui dum quadam die a foris ad Sancti pedes fleret, directis genibus atque pedibus, spectante populo sanitatem recepit. Tres virtutes istas ipsa die factas fuisse constat quo Sigibertus gloriosissimus rea, Sequanam transiens, sine collisione exercitus paccm cum fratribus fecit (An. 574). Quod nullus ambigat hanc etiam [Ed., tertiam] beati Antistitis fuisse victoriam.","english":"CHAPTER VI.\n\nConcerning the paralytic of Orléans.\n\nBut another paralytic, carried in a cart from the territory of Orléans, came to the holy basilica; and lying for many days at that door which opens toward midday beside the baptistery, he implored the aid of the blessed Bishop. It came to pass, then, that one day as he lay he was tormented more grievously than usual, so that the neighbors nearby ran together at his cries. For the ligaments of his nerves were being loosened and drawn straight, and on that account the pain was intolerable; and so, with the patron granting it, he rose up on his feet, weeping for joy, and stood up with the people as witness. He was at once made a cleric, and being confirmed in health, he returned home.\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nConcerning the paralytic from Bourges.\n\nBut also another, weak in walking, by name Leuboveus, already a cleric, arriving and dragging himself along the ground, because through poverty he had no one to carry him, day after day sought the threshold of the blessed Martin. And when one day he wept outside at the feet of the Saint, with his knees and feet made straight, he received health while the people looked on. It is established that these three miracles were performed on that very day when Sigibert, the most glorious king, crossing the Seine, made peace with his brothers without the clash of armies. Let no one doubt that this also was a victory of the blessed Bishop.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":54,"ref":"p54","source":"CAPUT VIII.\n\nDe cæco illuminato.\n\nEo quoque tempore cæcus quidam ab eleemosynariis postulans stipem, cui non erat aliud in victu, nisi aliquis ei manum porrexisset pietatis intuitu, nec erat domi præsidium, nisi miseratio devotorum, die una, dum ante sanctum sepulcrum fixis staret vestigiis, subito corripuit cum dolor in oculis; et cum graviter ab hoc dolore consumere:ur, cceperuit ejui oculi spumam emittere. Et sic erumpente a palpebris ejus sanguine, in redivivam lucem renascens, lumen, quod olim perdiderat, videre promeruit.\n\nCAPUT IX.\n\nDe alih cæca.\n\nGunthedrudis quaedam, de Viromandense territorio, oculorum lumen perdiderat: quae relinquens domum ct patriam, fide commonente, venit ad sanctam basilicam, ibique diebus multis deserviens, unius oculi meruit recipere visum. Quæ mox oblita virum et filios, vesteque mutata, ad religionem ecclesiasticam, Domino inspirante, transivit.","english":"CHAPTER VIII.\n\nConcerning a blind man enlightened.\n\nAt that time also a certain blind man, who begged alms from those who give to the poor, and who had nothing else for his sustenance unless someone out of compassion stretched out a hand to him, nor had he any support at home except the mercy of the devout, on one day, while he stood with fixed steps before the holy tomb, suddenly a pain seized his eyes; and when he was being grievously consumed by this pain, his eyes began to emit foam. And thus, with blood bursting forth from his eyelids, reborn into new light, he deserved to see the light which he had once lost.\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nConcerning another blind woman.\n\nA certain Gunthedrudis, from the territory of Vermandois, had lost the light of her eyes; she, leaving her home and homeland, urged on by faith, came to the holy basilica, and there serving for many days, she deserved to receive the sight of one eye. She, soon forgetful of her husband and sons, and having changed her garment, passed over to the religious life of the church, with the Lord inspiring her.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":55,"ref":"p55","source":"CAPUT X.\n\nDe muliere a profluvio sanguinis liberata.\n\nSed nec hoc silebo, qualiter velut ex veste nedemptoris nostri, ad beatum sepulcrum fluxus sauguinis sit siccatus i. Mulier quaedam ex Arverno veniens cum viro suo, de pago Tnansaliensi a, profluvio sanguinis aegrotabat, secus autem atrium basilicae mansionem habebat. Quae diebus.singulis ad sancti Confessoris limina jacens, prostrata opem sanitatis poscebat. Facium est autem ut quadam die accedens ad sanctum sepulcrum, orans, et osculans, de palla quæ super est posita, aures et oculos sibi tangeret. Protinus siccato rivo sanguinis, ita sanata est, ut putaret se Redemptoris fimbriam contigisse. Cujus vir in valetudinem irruens, ad ostium basilicae manibus depositus aliorum, fideliter exorans, restincta febre, convaluit. Et sic pariter hic ab incommodo, hæc a profluvio sanata, magnifieantes Deum ad propriam domum regressi sunt.","english":"CHAPTER X.\n\nConcerning a woman freed from a flow of blood.\n\nBut neither will I pass over in silence how, as it were from the garment of our Redeemer, the flow of blood was dried up at the blessed tomb. A certain woman, coming from the Auvergne with her husband, from the district of Tnansalium, was ill with a flow of blood, and she had a lodging beside the atrium of the basilica. Lying each day at the threshold of the holy Confessor, she would plead, prostrate, for the help of healing. It came about, then, that one day, approaching the holy tomb, praying and kissing it, she touched her ears and eyes with the pall that was laid over it. Straightway the stream of blood was dried up, and she was so healed that she thought she had touched the fringe of the Redeemer. Her husband, falling into illness, was laid by others at the door of the basilica, and praying faithfully, once his fever had been quenched, he recovered. And so together, this one healed of her affliction and that one of her flow of blood, giving glory to God, they returned to their own home.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":56,"ref":"p56","source":"CAPUT XI.\n\nDe muliere clauda.\n\nConjux Animi tribuni, nomine Mummola e, nocte conterrita a pavore, usum unius pedis perdiderat; et ita in debilitatem corruerat, ut aliorum mauibus sustentaretur erecta, sicubi disponeret progressura d. Quae ad beati Martini pedes deposita, -nocte tota cereum manu pro voto detinuit, nobis in basilica vigilantibus. Mane autem facto, moto ad matutinos signo, super pedem debilem constitit, ita ut omni debilitate sedata, ad metatum suum propriis gressibus, nullo sustentante, libera remearet.\n\nCAPUT XII.\n\nDe dysenterico sanato.\n\nQuodam autem tempore cum beatus Germanus, Parisiacae urbis pontifex, ad festivitatem Antistitig glonos. acceacret, Hagnimodus e tunc diaconus, nunc episcopus, in servitium ejus accessit, graviter a dysenteria laborans. Sed beatus Germanus prius ad villam ecclesiae suae f, quae in hoc territorio sita est, venit. Igitur cum ante noctem vigiliarum solemnitatis ejus Turonis advenire ccepisset, diacouem in villa residere jubet, dicens: Ne forte fatigeris eundo, et aliquid tibi deterius contingat. At ille: Potestas, inquit, Dei est, quae nos jubeat juxta meritum pati: Mam ego non exeo aliter, nisi ad basilicam beati Antistitis eam; confido enim quod si tumulum ejus attigero, salvus ero. Et statim, ascenso equite [id eat, equo], ad basilicam venit.","english":"CHAPTER XI.\n\nConcerning a lame woman.\n\nThe wife of Animius the tribune, by name Mummola, terrified one night by a fright, had lost the use of one foot; and she had fallen into such weakness that she was held upright by the hands of others whenever she wished to go out. She was laid at the feet of blessed Martin, and all through the night she held a wax candle in her hand according to her vow, while we kept vigil in the basilica. But when morning came and the signal for matins was rung, she stood upon her weak foot, so that with all her weakness calmed she returned to her own dwelling on her own feet, with no one supporting her, free.\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nConcerning a man with dysentery healed.\n\nAt a certain time, when blessed Germanus, bishop of the city of Paris, was coming to the festival of the blessed bishop, Hagnimodus, then a deacon, now a bishop, came to serve him, laboring grievously from dysentery. But blessed Germanus first came to the estate of his church, which is situated in that territory. So when he had begun to arrive at Tours before the night of the vigil of his solemnity, he ordered the deacon to remain at the estate, saying: Lest perhaps you be wearied by going, and something worse happen to you. But he said: It is the power of God that orders us to suffer according to our deserts: for I will not set out otherwise than to the basilica of the blessed bishop; for I trust that if I touch his tomb, I shall be saved. And at once, having mounted a horseman [that is, a horse], he came to the basilica.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":57,"ref":"p57","source":"Mane autem accepta potione de pulvere sepulcri, sedata protinus infirmitafe, convaluit.\n\nCAPUT XIII.\n\nDe creDo illuminato.\n\nUrsulfus I autem quidam ex Turonica civitate, de pago trans Ligerim, cæcus, beati Martini suffragia devotus expetiit. Qui duobus assidue mensibus ad ejus templum deserviens, in jejuniis orationibusque perdurabat. Factum est autem in una die resurrectionis dominicae L dum esset ad pedes Domni, et cum reliquo populo missarum solemnia sectaret, subito apertis oculis cuncta clare cernere coepit, ita ut ad sanctum altare communicandi gratia, nemine ducente, veniret. Quae autem fuerit causa cæcitatis, edicam. Primo die Paschæ jussus est a domino suo ut agrum circuiret,.inventumque aditum unde pecora introibant obseraret. Dum eum claudere conatur, excaecatus est. Tunc, ut diximus, ad sepulcrum veniens, Qens et ejulans, visum, quem perdiderat, flagitabat. Die autcm illa dum populo gratia dominici corporis traderetur, et ei beatus Antistes lumen reddere dignatus est, ac elucente sole. luminum suorum refulserunt stellae. Quis unquam, rogo, talis medicus poterit inveniri, qui in una infirmitate duas contulerit medicinas?","english":"In the morning, however, after taking a draught made from the dust of the tomb, her weakness was at once relieved and she recovered.\n\nCHAPTER XIII.\n\nConcerning the blind man who was given light.\n\nNow a certain blind man, Ursulfus, from the city of Tours, from the district across the Loire, devoutly sought the aid of the blessed Martin. Serving continually at his church for two months, he persevered in fasts and prayers. It came to pass, then, on one day of the Lord's resurrection, while he was at the feet of the lord [Martin] and, together with the rest of the people, was following the solemn rites of the Mass, that suddenly, with his eyes opened, he began to see all things clearly, so that he came to the holy altar to receive communion with no one leading him. Now I shall tell what was the cause of his blindness. On the first day of Easter he was ordered by his master to go around a field and to close up a gap that had been found, through which the cattle were entering. While he was trying to close it, he was struck blind. Then, as I have said, coming to the tomb, weeping and wailing, he kept begging for the sight he had lost. But on that day, while the grace of the Lord's body was being given to the people, the blessed bishop deigned to restore light to him, and as the sun shone bright, the stars of his eyes gleamed. Who, I ask, could ever be found to be such a physician, who in a single affliction bestowed two remedies?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":58,"ref":"p58","source":"Ecce in uno caeco duae virtutes ostensae, eui corporales oculos ad contemplanda terrena prius aperuit, et nunc cordis oculos ut ea non concupiscat illuminavit; et ad suum dignatus est dicare servilium, quem, ut ita dicam, renasci denuo fecit in mundum.\n\nCAPUT XIV.\n\nDe puella paralytica.\n\nSed neque hoc reticebo quid in sua festivitate operatus sit hic patronus. Palatina quædam puella, paralysis humore percussa, usum gressuum male redacta perdiderat, ita ut contractis in poplitibus nervis, calcaneos ad crura conjungeret. Quam pater Turonis deferens, ante pedes beati Martini devotus exposuit, ibique tribus mensibus jacens, stipem a praetereuntibus postulabat. Factum est autem in die insignis solemnitatis beati Viri, ut illa, nobis missam dicentibus, in loco quem superius nominavimus fideliter exoraret. Cumque nos rite sacrosancta solemnia celebrantes, contestationem J de sancti domni virtutibus narraremus, subito illa vociferari coepit, et flere, indicans se torqueri. At ubi, expedita contestatione, omnis populus Sanctus a in laudem Domini proclamavit, statim dissoluti sunt nervi qni ligati erant, et stetit super pedes suos, cuncto populo spectante, et sic, propitiante Domino, usque ad altare sanctum ad communicandum propriis gressibus nullo sustentante, pervenit: quae usque hodie incolumis perseverat.","english":"Behold, in one blind man two powers were shown: to him He first opened the eyes of the body to contemplate earthly things, and now He enlightened the eyes of the heart so that he should not desire them; and He deigned to call him His servant, whom, so to speak, He made to be born again into the world.\n\nCHAPTER XIV.\n\nConcerning the paralytic girl.\n\nBut neither will I pass over in silence what this patron wrought on his own feast day. A certain girl of the palace, stricken by the humor of paralysis and badly deprived of the use of walking, had lost it, so that with the sinews of her knees contracted she joined her heels to her shins. Her father, carrying her to Tours, devoutly laid her before the feet of the blessed Martin, and there, lying for three months, she begged a coin from passersby. It came to pass, however, on the day of the renowned solemnity of the blessed Man, that while we were saying Mass, she prayed faithfully in the place we named above. And when we, duly celebrating the sacred solemnities, were recounting the testimony concerning the virtues of the holy lord, suddenly she began to cry out and weep, indicating that she was being tormented. But when, the testimony being finished, all the people cried out \"Holy\" in praise of the Lord, at once the sinews that had been bound were loosed, and she stood upon her feet, with all the people watching, and so, with the Lord showing favor, she came to the holy altar to communicate by her own steps with no one supporting her; and she remains sound to this day.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":59,"ref":"p59","source":"CAPUT XV.\n\nDe cæco illuminato.\n\nMerobaudus quidam ex pago Pictavensi, dum efset laborans in opere, caecitate pessima, insidiatore immitteite, percussus cst. Qui cum per sex annos male agens in hae infirmitate duraret, advenit ad sanctum templum beati Martini, ibique assidue orationi incumbens, in crastina die de sancta festivitate, dum ad pedes beati Martini staret, subito visum est ei, circa se tanquam coruscatio resplenderet; et statim, apertis oculis, cuncta prospexit. Qui continuo clericus factus in eodem loco, sanus abscessit.\n\nCAPUT XVI.\n\nne his quæ nauta retulit.\n\nFuit et illud insigne miraculum, cum Dominus in die Epipbaniorum obtentu beati Antistitis ex aquis Falerna produxit, ac de alvei fundo vinum elicuit pauperi, qui quondam latices in vina mutavit. Igitur cum quodam tempore iter ageremus in pago Balbiacensi ad Ligerim usque fluvium pervenimus. Cumque a nauta, qui nos ripae alteri transponere debebat, sollicite requireremus loca in quoe piscaturi procederemus, locum indicat, dicens: Sit vobis beatus Martinus in adjutorium. At nostri ingrate hæc sus ejerunt, dicentes quod in ejus nomine nunquam visa cst cvenisse captura. tHe autem: Haud dubium sit, quia praestat hoc virtus ejus. Nam rcferam, inquit, vobis quae mihi hoc anno contigerunt, vel qualilcr per invocationem nominis ejus, opitulante Domino, quod optavi promerui.","english":"CHAPTER XV.\n\nConcerning the blind man enlightened.\n\nA certain Merobaudus from the district of Poitiers, while he was laboring at his work, was struck by a most grievous blindness, the attacker being sent in upon him. When he had endured in this harsh infirmity for six years, faring badly, he came to the holy shrine of the blessed Martin, and there applying himself assiduously to prayer, on the next day, the day of the holy festival, while he stood at the feet of the blessed Martin, suddenly it seemed to him that something like a flash of lightning shone around him; and at once, his eyes being opened, he saw all things clearly. He was immediately made a cleric in that same place, and departed healed.\n\nCHAPTER XVI.\n\nConcerning those things which the sailor reported.\n\nThat too was a notable miracle, when on the day of the Epiphany, by the intercession of the blessed Bishop, the Lord brought forth Falernian wine from the waters, and drew wine from the bottom of the riverbed for a poor man—He who once turned water into wine. Therefore, when at a certain time we were making a journey in the district of Balbiacum, we came as far as the river Loire. And when we diligently asked the sailor, who was to carry us across to the other bank, in what places we should go to fish, he indicated the place, saying: \"Let the blessed Martin be with you as your helper.\" But our men received these words ungratefully, saying that in his name a catch had never been seen to come. But he said: \"Let there be no doubt, for his power grants this. For I will tell you,\" he said, \"the things that happened to me this year, and how by the invocation of his name, with the Lord's aid, I obtained what I desired.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":60,"ref":"p60","source":"Denique dies erat Epiphaniorum, et ingressus in promptuario, nihil potus quod haurirem inveni, egressusque oravi, dicens: Sanctissime Martine, transmitte mihi in hac sacra solemnitatc aliquid vini, ne epulantibus aliis, ego jejunus remaneam. Dum autem haec tacitus oraren, vocem in ulteriori ripa audivi me vocantem, ut navim homini qui iter agebat adducerem. Verum ubi, acceptis contis, eo versus impetum e fluminis sulcare coepi, ei ut in medio an ne perveni, subito excussus magnus ex gurgite piscis in navim cecidit: quo confestim oppresso, transpositis hominibus, domum regressus sum, venditoque pisce uno vini modio, cum cæteris sum refectus. Ergo noveritis quam velociter in illud quod invocatus fuerit, si petatur fideliter, apparebit. Testor autem Deum quia bac ab ipsius nautas ore cognovi.\n\nCAPUT XVII.\n\nDe Gunthramno duce.\n\nQuodam die dum Gunthramnus Boso contra vicum Ambasiacensem Ligerim fluvium transmearet, ac irruentibus jain tenebris mundum nox horribilis retineret, subito adversante vento nautae turbantur in pelago, separatisque navibus quae pontem illum sustinebant, et aqua usque ad summum repletis, descendunt cuncti usque ad cingulum cum ipsis navibus in profundum, nequaquam tamen navibus subductis a pedibus.","english":"Finally, it was the day of the Epiphany, and having entered the storeroom, I found nothing to drink that I might draw, and going out I prayed, saying: Most holy Martin, send me in this sacred solemnity some wine, lest while others feast, I remain fasting. And while I was praying these things silently, I heard a voice on the farther bank calling me, that I should bring the boat to a man who was making a journey. But when, having taken up the poles, I began to cleave the river with force in that direction, before I reached the middle, suddenly a great fish, shaken out from the swirling water, fell into the boat; having immediately pressed on past it and ferried the men across, I returned home, and having sold the fish for a measure of wine, I was refreshed together with the others. Therefore know how swiftly he will appear in that matter in which he has been invoked, if he is asked faithfully. But I call God to witness that I learned this from the very mouth of the boatman.\n\nCHAPTER XVII.\n\nConcerning Gunthram the duke.\n\nOn a certain day, while Gunthram Boso was crossing the river Loire opposite the village of Ambasiacum, and now with darkness rushing in a dreadful night was holding the world, suddenly with a contrary wind the boatmen were thrown into confusion on the water, and the boats which supported that bridge having been separated and filled with water up to the top, all descended with the boats themselves into the deep up to their waists, yet in no way were the boats drawn away from their feet.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":61,"ref":"p61","source":"Exterritis autem omnibus, Boso.non rauce vocifcrans beati Martini auxilium proclamabat, et ut eis ad liberandum festinus occurreret, precabatur, dicens fidenter suis: Nolite timere, scio enim quod dextera sancti Viri ad auxilium porrigendum maxime in neeessitatibus sit parata. naec eo dicente, directis a Deo navibus, mutatoque vento contrario in secundum, nullo pereunte, perveneruntin littus, ubi tam praesens occurrit beati Confessoris suffragium, ut etiam argEntum quod rapiente fluvio perdiderant, ipso denique fluvio in litlus restituente, reciperent.\n\nCAPUT XVIII.\n\nDe Landulfo lunatico.\n\nQuidam ex Viennensi I territorio Landulfus nomine, graviter a lunatici daemonii infestatione vexabatur, ita ut plerumque ab hoste se vallari putans in terram corrueret, cruentasque ex ore spumas emitlens, tanquam mortuus habebatur. Quod genus morbi epilepticum peritorum medicorum vocitavit auctoriias; rustici vero cadivum i dixere, pro eo quod caderet. Cumque se antedictus in hoc exitu videret affligi, audita beati Præsulis fama, sanctam ejus adiit basilicam, ut sibi praesentia cunctis suffragia subve-' uirent. Sed cum eodem in loco plenus fide venisset, ardentius eum saevi daemonis pulsat audacia: nec ei 1cebat atrium egredi propter publicam daemonum infestationem: in atrio (amen nihil nocebatur.","english":"But when everyone was terrified, Boso, crying out not in a hoarse voice, proclaimed the aid of the blessed Martin and prayed that he would come swiftly to free them, saying confidently to his companions: Do not be afraid, for I know that the right hand of the holy man is especially ready to extend aid in times of need. As he said this, the ships were directed by God, and the contrary wind was changed to a favorable one; with no one perishing, they reached the shore, where the help of the blessed Confessor came so promptly that they even recovered the silver which they had lost when the river swept it away, since the river itself finally restored it to the shore.\n\nCHAPTER XVIII.\n\nConcerning Landulf the lunatic.\n\nA certain man from the territory of Vienne named Landulf was grievously afflicted by the infestation of a lunatic demon, so that often, thinking himself surrounded by the enemy, he would fall to the ground and, emitting bloody foam from his mouth, was considered as if dead. The authority of skilled physicians called this kind of disease epileptic; but the country folk called it the falling sickness, because he would fall. And when the aforesaid man saw himself afflicted in this condition, having heard the fame of the blessed Bishop, he went to his holy basilica, so that the favors of his presence might come to his aid. But when he had come to that place full of faith, the audacity of the savage demon attacked him more fiercely; nor was he able to leave the atrium because of the public infestation of the demons; in the atrium, however, he was not harmed at all.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":62,"ref":"p62","source":"Nam visibiliter cum magno armorum strepitu venientes, conabantur eum cas-islelorum acuminibus perfodere. Quod si se subderet terrae, ranarum super eum multitudo horribilis desilire videbatur. Sed et voces publice ab eo audiebantur exprobrantium, et dicenlium: Martinus, quem expetisti, nihil poterit libi subvenire, quia nostris es ditionibus mancipatus. Sed ile ad haec fidenter et immobilis signum crucis opponens, terribiliter eos per aerem tenuem » effugabat. Post has autem vacuas et inanes immissiones, cum videret inimicus eum sibi vindicare non posse, dolis eum tentavit illudere. Componens namque se in specie veterani venit ad eum, dicens: Ego sum Martinus, quem invocas; surge, et adora coram me, si vis recipere sanitatem. Cui ait ille: Si tu es domnus Martinus, fac super me signum crucis, ei credam. At ille audito nomine signi sibi semper contrarii, tanquam fumus evanuit. Post hæc autem stans ad pedes gloriosi Domni factus est in stupore mentis, et vidit beatam basilicam novo lumine effulgere; ex qua egrediens Sanctus dixit ad eum: Exaudita est oratio tua, et ecce eris sanus ab infirmitate quam pateris. Et sic beatae crucis signaculum super caput ejus faciens abscessit. Ille vero in se reversus, amotis omnibus insidiis, salutem se sensit integram recepisse.","english":"For they came visibly with a great clashing of arms and tried to pierce him through with the points of their weapons. And if he lowered himself to the ground, a horrible multitude of frogs seemed to leap down upon him. But voices were also heard openly from them reproaching him and saying: Martin, whom you have sought, will be able to bring you no help, because you are bound over into our dominions. But he, confident and unmoved at these things, opposing the sign of the cross, put them to flight terribly through the thin air. After these empty and vain assaults, however, when the enemy saw that he could not claim him for himself, he tried to mock him with deceits. For fashioning himself in the appearance of a veteran soldier, he came to him, saying: I am Martin, whom you invoke; rise, and adore before me, if you wish to receive health. To whom he said: If you are the lord Martin, make the sign of the cross over me, and I will believe it. But he, hearing the name of the sign ever contrary to himself, vanished like smoke. After these things, however, standing at the feet of the glorious Lord, he was made in a stupor of mind, and he saw the blessed basilica shining with a new light; from which the Saint, going out, said to him: Your prayer has been heard, and behold, you shall be healed from the infirmity which you suffer. And thus, making the seal of the blessed cross over his head, he departed. But he, returning to himself, with all ambushes removed, felt that he had received whole health.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":63,"ref":"p63","source":"Tamen post receptam sanitatem, cum coepisset vino uti superflue, corpusque ejus diu abstenturn imbre maduisset « latus ei cum uno pede manuque contrahitur. Sed parcimoniæ se iterum deputans, caputque tonsurans, rursum Beati virtute redditur sanitati.\n\nCAPUT XIX.\n\nDe Theudomere diacono cæco.\n\nDum singula quaeque miracula beati Viri succincte scribimus, nec ea in ampliorem Fermonem expandimus, verendo valde, atque timendo iter carpimus inchoatum, ne forte dicatur a prudentioribus: Multum hæc poterat peritus extendere 8. Sed nobis III ecclesiastico dogmate versantibus videlur ut historia quoe ad ordificationem Ecclesiae pertinet, postposita verbositate, brevi atque simplici sermone texatur, ut et virtutem beati Antistitis prodat, et sapientibus fastidium non imponat. Quo facto et lector provocetur in lectione, et Sanctus prodatur in opere. Theudomeris diaconus cum prae humore capitis, cidentibus cataractis, oculorum aditus haberet per quatuor annos graviter obseratos, venit ad cellulam Condatensem, in qua vir beatus transiit. Prostratusque ad ejus lectulum, nocte tola lacrymis et orationibus deducta, immobilis madefecit terram fletibus, tepuitque suspiriis ejus venerabile lignum cancelli; lucescente autem die, reseratis cataractis luminum, lumen videre promeruit.","english":"Yet after he had recovered his health, when he had begun to use wine to excess and his body, long abstinent, had been soaked by a shower, his side was contracted together with one foot and hand. But devoting himself again to abstinence and shaving his head, he was once more restored to health by the power of the Blessed one.\n\nCHAPTER XIX.\n\nConcerning Theudomer the blind deacon.\n\nWhile we write succinctly each several miracle of the blessed man, and do not expand them into a longer discourse, proceeding on our begun journey with great reverence and fear, lest perhaps it be said by the more prudent: A skilled man could extend these things greatly. But for us who are engaged in the threefold ecclesiastical doctrine, it seems that the history which pertains to the edification of the Church, setting aside verbosity, should be woven in brief and simple speech, so that it may both display the power of the blessed bishop and not impose disgust upon the wise. By this means both the reader is provoked to reading, and the Saint is displayed in his work. Theudomer the deacon, since from a humor of the head, with cataracts falling, he had the passages of his eyes grievously closed for four years, came to the cell of Condat, in which the blessed man had passed. And prostrated at his little bed, the whole night spent in tears and prayers, motionless he wet the ground with weeping, and the venerable wood of the lattice grew warm with his sighs; but as day dawned, the cataracts of his eyes having been opened, he merited to see the light.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":64,"ref":"p64","source":"Quid unquam tale fecore cum ferramentis medici, cum plus doloris negotium exerant quam medelæ, cum distento transfixoque spiculis oculo, prius mortis tormenta figurent quam lumen aperiant? In quo si cautela fefellerit, aeternam misero praeparat caecitatem. Huic autem beato Confessori voluntas ferramentum est, et sola virtus unguentum.\n\nCAPUT XX.\n\nDe Desiderio energumeno.\n\nIn qua cellula cum Desiderius energumenus ex Arverno veniens, nocte integra debacchassel, mane facto, coepit declamare quod eum beatus Martinus incenderet. In his vocibus evomens purulentum nescio quid cum sanguine, daemone ejecto, purgatus est; infectumque sanie pulverem derelinquens, cellulam egressus est sanus.\n\nCAPUT XXI.\n\nDe homine manum contractam habente.\n\nQuidam in eodem loco manum debilem contractis digitis detulit, ita ut ungues in palma ejus affixi, decurrente interdum sanguine, dolorem ei nimium generarent. Hic projiciens se ad antedictum gloriosi domni lectulum, flens et deprecans, tam dolore instigente quam Ode, postera die direclis digitis, manum recepit incolumem.-","english":"What ever did doctors accomplish like this with their instruments, when the business of pain did more than the remedies, when with the eye distended and pierced by needles, they first represent the torments of death before they open the light? In which if their caution fails, it prepares eternal blindness for the wretched man. But for this blessed Confessor, the will is the instrument, and virtue alone is the ointment.\n\nCHAPTER XX.\n\nConcerning Desiderius, the demoniac.\n\nIn that same cell, when Desiderius, a demoniac coming from Clermont, had raged the whole night, when morning came, he began to cry out that blessed Martin was burning him. Amid these cries, vomiting up some purulent matter with blood, with the demon cast out, he was cleansed; and leaving behind the dust infected with gore, he departed from the cell healed.\n\nCHAPTER XXI.\n\nConcerning a man who had a contracted hand.\n\nA certain man in the same place brought a withered hand with contracted fingers, so that his nails were fixed into his palm, with blood sometimes flowing, generating excessive pain for him. This man, throwing himself down at the aforementioned little bed of the glorious lord, weeping and praying, urged on as much by pain as by devotion, on the following day, with his fingers straightened, received his hand whole.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":65,"ref":"p65","source":"CAPUT XXII.\n\nDe Remigia matrona.\n\n1052Similem infirmitatem Remigia matrona incurrens, ad beatam cellulam valde devota pervenit. Quae vigiliis et orationibus insistens, cum matriculam, quas ibidem congregata est, pasceret, aridum bracnium cum contractis digitis sanum extulit ad miscendum s. Et sic tota die benedictis pauperibus deserviens, sospes remeavit ad propria. Haec in posterum annis singulis antedictis fratribus alimentum sufficiens exhibebat. Factum est autem, ut quadam vice una puellarum suarum male a quartani typi febre quatcretur. Dum autem secundum consuetudinem veniens, pauperibus illis exhibebat victum, sancti Viri implorat auxilium. Et per quatuor dies ad beatam cellulam continuatione orationis atque jejuniis decubans, ab omni febre sanata puella, cum familia i magnificans Deum domum regressa est.\n\nCAPUT XXIII.\n\nDe Vinaste cæco.","english":"CHAPTER XXII.\n\nConcerning Remigia, a married woman.\n\nRemigia, a married woman, having contracted a similar illness, came with great devotion to the blessed cell. Persisting in vigils and prayers, when she was feeding the little mother, that is, the women gathered there, she brought forth her withered arm with contracted fingers, made whole, to mix [the food] for the saints. And so, serving the blessed poor all day long, she returned home safe and sound. Thereafter she furnished sufficient sustenance to the aforesaid brothers every year. It came about, moreover, that on one occasion one of her maids was badly shaken by a quartan-type fever. But when, coming according to custom, she was bringing food to those poor, she implored the aid of the holy man. And after lying for four days at the blessed cell in continual prayer and fasting, the girl, healed of every fever, returned home with her household, magnifying God.\n\nCHAPTER XXIII.\n\nConcerning Vinastus, the blind man.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":66,"ref":"p66","source":"Talia exercens quidam, i Vinastis nomine, lumen recepit, dum scilicet paupei ibus illis victus necessaria ministravit. IIic autem cæcitate maxima per annos plurimos aggravatus, habebat in consuetudine, ut veniens de regione sua ad antedictam Sancti cellulam, pauperibas illis amplissimum alimentam exhiberet, vigiliisque devotissime celebratis, eos in satietate reticeret: quibus ipse, juxta possibilitatem, tanquam famulus serviebat. Uum igitur hæc pr multos, ut diximus, annos impenderet, quadam vice impleto voto, servitioque simul, prosternitur ad cancellum sancti lectuli, et orans ac valedicens, regredi cupiebat. Post completam autem orationem exsurgens, apertis parumper oculis, intuetur cortinam sericam de cancello pendere; et ait: Video tanquam pallium sericum hic appensum. Cui aiunt sui: Veritatem te videre cognoscimus. Ipse autem coepit iterum flere atque orare, ut beatus Confessor opus coeptum dignanter expleret. Qui dum orat auenlius, obdormivit; apparuilquc ei vir per visum, dicens: Vade ad basilicam domni Martini, et ibi plenam obtinebis sanitatem. Qui nihil moratus, famulorum manibus deductus, ut limina beati Confessoris attigit, lumen integrum, opitulante lide, recepit.","english":"While he was doing such things, a certain man named Vinastis received his sight, namely while he was supplying those poor men with the necessities of food. For he, having been weighed down by the greatest blindness for very many years, had it as a habit that, coming from his own region to the aforementioned cell of the Saint, he would provide those poor men with the most abundant nourishment, and after celebrating vigils most devoutly, he would satisfy them to fullness; and he himself, as far as he was able, served them like a servant. When, therefore, he had been bestowing these things for many years, as we have said, on a certain occasion, having fulfilled his vow and at the same time his service, he prostrated himself at the grating of the saint's bed, and while praying and bidding farewell, he wished to return. But after he had completed his prayer, rising up, with his eyes opened a little, he saw a silk curtain hanging from the grating; and he said: I see something like a silk pallium hung here. Those with him said to him: We know that you see truly. But he began again to weep and pray that the blessed Confessor would graciously complete the work he had begun. And while he was praying more earnestly, he fell asleep; and a man appeared to him in a vision, saying: Go to the basilica of the lord Martin, and there you will obtain full health. He, delaying nothing, led by the hands of his servants, as soon as he touched the threshold of the blessed Confessor, received full sight, with the faith aiding him.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":67,"ref":"p67","source":"CAPUT XXIV.\n\nDe homine omnibus membris contracto.\n\nIn Diturigo quoque fuit quædam mulier, quæ concipiens peperit filium, cujus poplites ad stomachum, calcanei ad crura contraxcrant a: manus vero ejus crant adhærentes pectori, sed et oculi clausi erant. Qui magis monstrum aliquod quam hominis speciem similabat. Qui cum non sine derisione multorum aspiceretur, et matcr argueretur cur talis ex illa processerit filius, confitebatur cum lacrymis, nocte illum Dominica generatum. Quem interimere non audens, ut mos matrum est b, tanquam sanum puerum nutriebat. Adultum vero tradidit mendicis, qui cum accipientes posuerunt in carrucam, et trahentes ostendebant populis, multum per eum stipendii accipientes. Dum hæc per longa tempora gcrerentur, anno aetatis suae undecimo [Bec., quadragesimo] advcnit ad festivitatem beati Martini, projectusque a furis ante sepulcrum miserabiliter decubabat. Transacta autem festivitate, visum auditumque recepit. Inde reductus ad solitam consuetudinem, postulabat stipem. Post annum fere aut eo amplius venit iterum ad solemnitatem, positusque est in loco in quo pi ius jacucral, decursisque solemnitatis festis, directis omnibus membris, plenissimam obtinuit sanitatem. Quas ne incredibilia fortassc videantur, ego eum sospitem vidi: nec audita ab aliquo, sed ab «jus ore narrata cognovi c.","english":"CHAPTER XXIV.\n\nConcerning a man whose every limb was contracted.\n\nIn Dijon as well there was a certain woman who, having conceived, gave birth to a son whose knees had drawn up to his stomach and whose heels to his shins; his hands, moreover, clung fast to his chest, and his eyes were also closed. He resembled some monster rather than the appearance of a man. And since he was looked upon not without the mockery of many, and his mother was reproached for why such a son had come forth from her, she confessed with tears that she had conceived him on the Lord's night. Not daring to kill him, as is the custom of mothers, she raised him as though he were a healthy boy. But when he had grown up, she handed him over to beggars, who took him and placed him in a cart, and dragging him about showed him to the peoples, receiving much payment through him. While these things were being done over a long period, in the eleventh year of his age [Bec., the fortieth] he came to the festival of the blessed Martin, and, cast down by the thieves before the tomb, he lay there pitifully. But when the festival had passed, he received sight and hearing. Then, brought back to his usual custom, he begged for alms. After nearly a year or more he came again to the solemnity, and he was placed in the place in which he had lain before, and when the festivities of the solemnity had run their course, with all his limbs straightened, he obtained the fullest health. Lest these things perhaps seem unbelievable, I myself saw him sound; and I learned them not from what I heard from anyone, but from what was narrated by his own mouth.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":68,"ref":"p68","source":"Sed quia dixi, parentibus ejus hoc ob peccatum evenisse per violationcm noctis Dominicae; cavete, o viri, quibus sunt conjuncta conjugia. Salis est aliis diebus voluptati operam dare; bane autem diem in laudibus Dei impolluti deducite. Quia qui in ea conjuges simul convenerint, exinde aut contracti, aut epileptici, aut leprosi filii nascuntur. Sitque hoc quod diximus, documentum, ne malum quod una nocte committitur, per multorum spatia annorum perteratur e.-\n\nCAPUT XXV.\n\nDe Paralytico sanato.\n\nIllud præ cæteris admirandum miraculum, vobis orantibus e, explicabo, quod post immensum macroris cumulum magnum nobis gaudium patefecit, dum et virtutem Beati protulit, et quod titubabat erexit g, cordaque nutantia populorum larga stabilitatis firmitate muuivit. Nam cum in vencrabili dominicae Nativitatis nocte sacrosanctis deducta excubiis, procedentes de ecclesia h, ad basilicam Sancti ire disponeremus, quidam ex energumenis, atrocior cæteris, coepit nimium debacchari, et discerpens se, atque collidens, clamabat: Frustra appetitis limina Martini, casso ejusdem aedem aditis, quia vos propter multa crimina dereliquit, et ecce vos abhorrens. Romae mirabilia facit. Ibi caecorum oculis lumen infundit, ibi paralyticorum gressus dirigit; sed et aliis quoque morbis sua virtute finem imponit.","english":"But because I have said that this happened to his parents on account of sin, through the violation of the Lord's night, take heed, O men, who are joined in marriage. It is permitted on other days to give yourselves to pleasure; but pass this day undefiled in the praises of God. For those who come together as husband and wife on it, from this are born children either contracted, or epileptic, or leprous. And let what we have said be a warning, lest the evil that is committed in one night be paid for through the span of many years.\n\nCHAPTER XXV.\n\nConcerning a paralytic healed.\n\nThat miracle, more to be wondered at than the rest, I shall set forth to you as you pray, which, after an immense accumulation of grief, opened up great joy to us, in that it both brought forth the power of the Blessed one and raised up what was tottering, and strengthened the wavering hearts of the people with the abundant firmness of stability. For when, on the venerable night of the Lord's Nativity, having passed it in most sacred vigils, we were making ready to go from the church to the basilica of Saint Martin, a certain one of the possessed, more savage than the rest, began to rage exceedingly, and tearing at himself and dashing himself about, cried out: In vain do you seek the threshold of Martin, in vain do you approach his shrine, because he has abandoned you on account of your many crimes, and behold, he abhors you. At Rome he works wonders. There he pours light into the eyes of the blind, there he directs the steps of paralytics; but on other diseases too he imposes an end by his power.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":69,"ref":"p69","source":"Ad hanc diaboli vocem omnis populus exturbatur, et non solum obruta membrorum i minorum corda, sed etiam nos ipsi pavore concutimur. Ingredientibus autem nobis cum fletu magno basilicam, omnes pavimento prosternimur orantes, ut sancti Viri præsentiam mereamur. Et ecce unus, Bonulfus nomine, cui ante tres annos prae nimia multitudine febris i, manus ambæ cum uno pede contraxerant, et ad festivitatem. beati Viri manibus directis, pede adhuc debili claudicabat, ante sanctum altare sternitur, orans ut qui sibi manus aridas restituerat, pedem quoque contractum simili virtute dirigeret. In bac autem oratione a febre nimia circumdatur, et tanquam extensus in eculeum nervorum dolore torquetur. Interea de supplice dolor excitat contumacem, et qui venerat inquirere medicinam, cœpit inferre calumniam. Aiebat euim: domne Martine, sanitatem a te, non tormenta quaesivi. Quam si non mereor, vel doloribus non affligar. Cumque nos cum fletibus circumstantes beati praestolaremur adventum, et inter haec dum sancta solemnia agerentur, oblatis super altare sacris muneribus, mysterioque corporis et sanguinis Christi palla ex more cooperto,molliuntur contracturae nervorum, et disrupto post infirmi poplitis corio, defluente sanguinis rivo, pedem extendit incolumem.","english":"At this voice of the devil all the people were thrown into confusion, and not only were the hearts of the lesser members overwhelmed, but we ourselves also were shaken with fear. But as we entered the basilica with great weeping, we all prostrated ourselves on the pavement praying that we might be granted the presence of the holy man. And behold, one named Bonulfus, whose both hands together with one foot had been contracted three years earlier by reason of an excessive fever, and who was limping at the festival of the blessed man with his hands straightened but his foot still weak, was laid before the holy altar, praying that he who had restored to him his withered hands might by a like power also straighten his contracted foot. But during this prayer he was seized by an excessive fever, and as if stretched upon a rack he was tormented by the pain of his sinews. Meanwhile the pain roused the stubborn man from his supplication, and he who had come to seek healing began to bring a complaint. For he kept saying: Lord Martin, I sought health from you, not torments. If I do not deserve it, at least let me not be afflicted with pains. And while we stood around with weeping awaiting the coming of the blessed man, and in the meantime while the holy solemnities were being celebrated, the sacred gifts having been offered upon the altar, and the mystery of the body and blood of Christ having been covered with the pall according to custom, the contractions of the sinews were softened, and when the skin of the diseased knee had burst, with a stream of blood flowing out, he stretched forth his foot whole.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":70,"ref":"p70","source":"Quod videns ego, Deo omnipotenti gratias agens, liminaque fletibus madefaciens a, in hac ad populum voce prorupi: Timor a cordibus vestris omnis abscedat, quia beatus Confessor nobiscum inhabitat, nec omnino credite diabolo, qui nihil unquam protulit verum. Ille ab inilio mendax est, et in veritate non stetit (Jean. VIII, 4i). Me autem ita dicente, omnium luctus laxatur in gaudium. Ipse etiam infirmus coram nobis assurgens, in pedes constitit absolutus. Videns autem haec omnis populus, in coelum clamore prolato, plaudebat dicens: Gloria in excelsis Deo, qui sicut quondam pastores angelico lumine, ita nos hodie praesentia Confessoris beati clarificavit, et eum nobis adesse praesenti virtute monstravit. Et sic a timore inimici omnes erepti, Christi præsidio roborati sunt.\n\nCAPUT XXVI.\n\nDe Piolo muto.\n\nNec dissimili in virtute per sanctum Epiphaniorum diem vir beatus apparuit, cum os muti cujusdam obstrusum coram populo rescravit. Piolus hquidam Condatensis clericus, a nativitate procedens manus clausas laborioso mundo protulit, in usu laboris inertes. Et hoc cur acciderit, utrum hic, aut parentes ejus peccaverint (Joan. IX, 2), ut sic mancus nasceretur, non est nostrae discretionis exsolvere. Unum tantum scimus, quod in co, sicut et in reliquis infirmis, est ostensa gratia Sacerdotis.","english":"Seeing this, I gave thanks to almighty God, and wetting the threshold with my tears, I burst forth with this voice to the people: Let all fear depart from your hearts, because the blessed Confessor dwells among us, and do not at all believe the devil, who has never brought forth anything true. He was a liar from the beginning, and did not stand in the truth (John 8:44). And as I was saying this, the mourning of all was released into joy. Even the sick man himself, rising up before us, stood restored on his feet. But when all the people saw these things, raising a cry to heaven, they clapped their hands, saying: Glory to God in the highest, who, as once he glorified the shepherds by angelic light, so today has glorified us by the presence of the blessed Confessor, and has shown that he is present with us by his present power. And so, all snatched away from the fear of the enemy, they were strengthened by the protection of Christ.\n\nCHAPTER XXVI.\n\nConcerning Piolus the mute.\n\nNor did the blessed man appear with dissimilar power on the holy day of the Epiphany, when he opened before the people the closed mouth of a certain mute man. A certain cleric of Condat named Piolus, coming forth from birth, brought into the laborious world hands closed and useless for the work of labor. And why this happened—whether this man or his parents sinned (John 9:2), so that he was born thus maimed—is not for our judgment to resolve. We know only one thing: that in him, as also in the other infirm, the grace of the Priest was shown.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","ref":"Luke 2:14","text":"The English carries the scriptural phrase “glory to god in the highest”, which matches Luke 2:14. The match is on the English draft; check the Coptic before quoting the verse."}]},{"i":71,"ref":"p71","source":"Nam cum factus esset decem annorum, accrescentibusque unguibus graves dolores manuum pateretur, eosdemque ferre non tolerarct, limina beati Confessoris adivit. Ibique dicbus multis cum summa parcimonia demoratus, digitos directos, manusque retulit sanas. Post annos autem fere quinque pessimum incurrit incommodum, et dum vi nimiæ febris alteritur, vocis elocutione mulctatur, ereptusque a febre sine loquelæ officio permanebat: sed taliter fuerat aditus oris ejus obstructus, ut nec qualemcunque mugitum posset emittere; sed annectens cum corrigia tres tabulas manu ferebat, easdem inter se collidens, Bonumque, quem ab ore non dabat, tabulis proferebat. Hoc opus vinitoribus utile est, cuin vineta ab infestantium' avium catervis defensare conantur. Cum autem venisset antedictus ad Sancti basilicaln in ea nocte in qua Dominus noster Jesus Christus fluenta laticum hauriens Falerna porrexit, ad Beati pedes vigilare disposuit. Transacto autein tempore mediae noctis, obdormivit. Qui cum nescio quid per visum periculi cerneret, pavore conterritus, in hanc vocem primum obseratum aperuit os: Domne Martine, libera me. Et sic crumpens ab ore ei faucibus ejus sanguis, auditum pariter et eloquium recepit.","english":"For when he had reached the age of ten and, as his nails grew, was suffering severe pain in his hands and could not bear it, he went to the threshold of the blessed Confessor. And having stayed there for many days with the utmost frugality, he returned with his fingers straightened and his hands healed. But after nearly five years he suffered a most grievous affliction, and while he was being consumed by the violence of a very high fever, he was deprived of the faculty of speech, and once freed from the fever he remained without the function of speech; but his mouth had been so obstructed that he could not emit even any sort of moan; rather, fastening three tablets together with a strap, he carried them in his hand, striking them against one another, and what he could not bring forth from his mouth, he expressed with the tablets as \"Good.\" This device is useful to vintners when they try to defend their vineyards from flocks of troublesome birds. But when the aforementioned man had come to the basilica of the Saint on that night on which our Lord Jesus Christ, drawing draughts of water, turned them into wine, he resolved to keep vigil at the feet of the Blessed one. But after the time of midnight had passed, he fell asleep. And when he perceived in a vision some danger or other, terrified with fear, he first opened his obstructed mouth to this utterance: Lord Martin, free me. And so, bursting forth from his mouth and throat, blood came out, and he received both hearing and speech.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":72,"ref":"p72","source":"CAPUT XXVII.\n\nDe muliere paralytica.\n\nCum vero interempto Sigiberto rege (An. 575), Chilpericus regnum, exemptus ab imminenti morte, cepisset, Ruccolenus cum Cenomanicis graviter civitatem Turonensem opprimebat e, ita ut cuncta devastans, nullam spem alimoniae in domibus ecclesiae, vel pauperum bospitiolis relinqueret. Postera autem die legatos ad civitatem mittit, ut homines qui propter culpam minime nobis incognitam ad Sancti basilicam residebant extraherentur a clepicis: quod si differretur fieri, universa promittit incendie concremare. Et nos hæc audientes moesti valde basilicam sanctam adimus, et Beati auxilia flagitamus. Statimque paralytica, quae per duodecim annos fuerat contracta, dirigitur. Ipse vero Ruccolenus ulteriorem ripam aggressus, morbo confestim regio sauciatur, atque ab infirmitatibus Herodianis, quas enarrare longum videtur, allisus; et sicut cera a facie ignis guttatim defluens, quinquagesima die ab hydrope inflatus interiit. Sed nec hoc silebo, quod illo tempore alveus fluvii nutu Dei, vel ĮId est, et] virtute beati Viri, absque pluviarum inundationibus repletus, hostem, ne civitatem læderet, transire prohibuit.","english":"CHAPTER XXVII.\n\nConcerning the paralytic woman.\n\nNow when, after King Sigibert had been killed (in the year 575), Chilperic, having been snatched from imminent death, had begun to reign, Ruccolenus with the Cenomanians was grievously oppressing the city of Tours, so that, devastating everything, he left no hope of sustenance in the houses of the church or in the poor men's shelters. But on the following day he sent envoys to the city, that the men who, on account of a fault by no means unknown to us, were staying at the basilica of the Saint might be dragged out from the clergy: and if this were delayed, he promised to burn everything with fire. And we, hearing these things, went very sorrowfully to the holy basilica and implored the aid of the Blessed one. And immediately the paralytic woman, who had been contracted for twelve years, was made straight. But Ruccolenus himself, having attacked the further bank, was at once stricken with the royal disease, and, afflicted by the Herodian infirmities, which it seems long to recount; and, like wax flowing drop by drop from the face of fire, on the fiftieth day, swollen with dropsy, he died. But I will not be silent about this either, that at that time the channel of the river, by the nod of God, or by the power of the blessed man, was filled without floods of rain, and prevented the enemy from crossing, lest he harm the city.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":73,"ref":"p73","source":"CAPUT XXVIII.\n\nDe muliere cæca.\n\nIn die autem illa recurrentis solemnitatis, qua Dominus pro salute mundi mox passurus d, confuso proditore discipulo, epulum apostolis ministravit, cum omnes ad ecclesiam properarent desiderabilia Domino vota dissolvere, quaedam mulier diuturna cæcitate gravata, cum esset in villa, flere coepit, et dicere: Væ mihi, quia cæcata pro peccatis non mereor hanc festivitatem cum reliquo populo spectare. Tunc cum fletu magno solo prostrata, nomen beati invocat Confessoris: completa autem oratione luci pristinae restituitur. Porro recepto lumine, ob reddendas Deo gratias ad beatam basilicam cum admirabili oculorum claritate pervenit. Sed et unus ex energumetis die illa Sancti virtute curatus est.\n\nCAPUT XXIX.\n\nDe duobus coecis.\n\nDuo caeci ei Biturigo venientes, arefactis palpebris, ct glutino conjunctis, ad pedes beati Domni orantes decubabant. Factum est autem in die festivitatis suae astante populo, dum virtutes de vita illius legerentur (Vid. infra, cap. 49), factus est super illos splendor corusco similis, et confractis ligaturis quae palpebras obseraverant, defluente ex oculis san. guine, lateque visu patente, cuncta cernere meruerunt.","english":"CHAPTER XXVIII.\n\nConcerning the blind woman.\n\nNow on that day of the recurring solemnity on which the Lord, about to suffer for the salvation of the world, after the betrayer disciple had been confounded, ministered the feast to the apostles, when all were hastening to the church to pay their longed-for vows to the Lord, a certain woman weighed down by long-standing blindness, when she was in the village, began to weep and to say: Woe to me, because, blinded for my sins, I do not deserve to behold this festivity with the rest of the people. Then, prostrate alone with great weeping, she invokes the name of the blessed Confessor; and when the prayer was completed she is restored to her former light. Moreover, having recovered her sight, to give thanks to God she came to the blessed basilica with wondrous clarity of her eyes. But also one of the possessed was healed on that day by the power of the Saint.\n\nCHAPTER XXIX.\n\nConcerning two blind men.\n\nTwo blind men coming to him at Biturigum, with their eyelids withered and joined together by a glue-like substance, lay at the feet of the blessed lord, praying. Now it came to pass on the day of his festival, with the people standing by, while the mighty deeds of his life were being read, that a splendor like lightning came upon them, and the bonds that had closed their eyelids being broken, with blood flowing from their eyes and their sight spreading wide, they merited to perceive all things.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":74,"ref":"p74","source":"CAPUT XXX.\n\nDe muliere muta.\n\nMulier quaedam, cujus os patulum humor [Ed., dolor] nimius cum febre ligaverat, ut nec linguam regere posset, sed tantum mugitum ut animal, non vocem ut homo poterat emittere, fide instigante, cum magna animi confidentia, atria beati Confessoris aggredtur; ibique multis diebus residens, et stipem simul atque oris apertionem postulans, tandem a Sancti virtute respicitur. Nam quadam die Dominica dum missarum solemnia celebrarentur, hæc in sancta basilica cum reliquo populo stabat. Factum est autem cum Dominica oratio diceretur, et hæc aperto ore caepit sanctam orationem cum reliquis decantare a. Ipsa autein cum jugo servituiis haberetur vincta, de rebus beati Confessoris redempta est: et nunc cum vocis officio ingenua perseverat.\n\nCAPUT XXXI.\n\nDe alia muliere debili.\n\nNec minori miraculo se beatus Vir adesse invocatum ostendit. Apra quædam religiosa, vi febrium oppressa, omnem usum membrorum, sola tn'tum lingua famulante, perdiderat. Nam cum manibus simul ac pedibus contractis jaceret, et die noctuquc Beati flagitaret auxilium, visum est ei quadam nocte venisse ad se senem, qui molli tactu membra ejus cuncta attractaret. Expergefacta mane sentit pedes cum nna manu redditos sanitati, et stupens ignorabat qui casus haec fecerit. Alia vero die admonita per soporem, ad beatam basilicam nihil retardans proficiscitur.","english":"CHAPTER XXX.\n\nConcerning the mute woman.\n\nA certain woman, whose gaping mouth an excess of humor [Ed., pain] together with fever had closed up, so that she could not control her tongue, but could utter only a lowing like an animal, not speech like a human being, was stirred by faith and with great confidence of mind approached the courts of the blessed Confessor; and remaining there for many days, asking both for alms and for the opening of her mouth, at last she was looked upon by the power of the Saint. For on a certain Sunday, while the solemnities of the Mass were being celebrated, she stood in the holy basilica with the rest of the people. It came to pass, moreover, when the Lord's Prayer was being said, that she, with her mouth opened, began to sing the holy prayer along with the others. But she, who had been held bound under the yoke of servitude, was redeemed from the property of the blessed Confessor; and now, with the office of speech restored, she continues as a free woman.\n\nCHAPTER XXXI.\n\nConcerning another woman, disabled.\n\nNor did the blessed man show himself present, when invoked, with any lesser miracle. A certain religious woman named Apra, oppressed by the violence of fevers, had lost all use of her limbs, with only her tongue still serving her. For when she lay with hands and feet alike contracted, and day and night begged the aid of the Blessed One, it seemed to her one night that an old man had come to her, who with gentle touch stroked all her limbs. Waking in the morning, she felt that her feet together with one hand had been restored to health, and, astonished, she did not know what cause had done these things. On another day, however, warned in sleep, she set out for the blessed basilica without any delay.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":75,"ref":"p75","source":"Nox autem illa erat vigilia de transitu Confessoris. Mediæ autem noctis tempore jam transacto, vigilans nescio quo terrore concutitur, et subito manus ejus contracta dirigitur. Stupente autem populo, cuncta quae prius pertulerat enarrabat: cognoscens ipsius eamdem fuisse virtutem I prius in illa erectione pedum, quae nunc in manus suæ directione clarebat.\n\nCAPUT XXXII.\n\nDe oleo ad sepulcrum Sancli crescente.\n\nCum talia miracula, quae scripsimus, quotidie cernamus; quid illi miseri suirt dicturi qui Severum in \"ita sancti Antistitis mentitum esse pronuntiant? Nam audivi quemdam, nequam, ut credo, spiritu repletum, proloquentem non potuisse fieri ut oleum sub Martini benedictione crevisset. Sed nec hoc, quod elapsa ampulla super stratum marmoris corruens, perstitisset illæsa b. Quod ergo nuper actum est, multos in testimonium exhibens, declarabo. Quidam de diaconibus nostris male a quartam typi ere cruciaBatur, quem cum plerumque arguerem, cur segnis ad basilicam Sancti non proficisceretur, lice ex corde oraret, ut ei virtus Pontificis subveniret; tandem a nobis compunctus, ad beatum tumulum provolvitur tremens. Dehinc cum paulisper ignis febrium quievisset, rogat sibi exbiberi ampullam cum rosaceo oleo semiplenam. Jam enim ad ipsam febrem, exinde licet parum profecisset, multum tamen expendel'al, et erat valde media.","english":"That night was the vigil of the Confessor's passing. When midnight had already passed, she who was keeping watch was shaken by some terror I know not of, and suddenly her contracted hand was made straight. While the people stood amazed, she recounted everything she had previously endured, recognizing that it was the same power in the straightening of her hand which had formerly been clear in the setting right of her feet.\n\nCHAPTER XXXII.\n\nConcerning the oil that increased at the tomb of the Saint.\n\nSince we daily behold such miracles as we have written, what will those wretched men say who declare that Severus lied about the holy Bishop? For I have heard a certain man, filled—as I believe—with a wicked spirit, asserting that it could not have happened that the oil increased under Martin's blessing. But neither could this be denied: that the flask, having slipped and fallen upon the marble pavement, remained unbroken. Therefore I shall make clear what was done recently, bringing many forward as witnesses. A certain one of our deacons was grievously tormented by a quartan fever; when I had often reproached him for not hastening to the Saint's basilica, and for not praying from his heart that the Bishop's power might come to his aid, at last, pricked by us, he cast himself trembling before the blessed tomb. Then, when the fire of the fevers had subsided a little, he asked that a flask half full of rose oil be brought to him. For already for that fever, although he had profited little from it, he had spent much, and it was very much diminished.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":76,"ref":"p76","source":"Perungensque ab hoc Iiquore frontem et tempora, postulat ut et vasculum secus Beati tumulum poneretur. Quarta vero die cum eum febris urgeret, basilicam petit, provolutusque diutissime oravit. Apprehensam autem ampullam, quam reliquerat mediam, invenit plenam, admiransque virtutem beati Antistitis, eam domum cum timore et veneratione reportat. Ex qua rursus cum esset perunctus, protinus omnis ardor quievit incommodi, nec ab eodem ultra confractus est. Quid eliam de eadem ampulla post haec actum sit, non sine gravi suspirio atque miraculo memoramus. Nam cum in antedicti diaconis hospitiolo de pariete penderet, incursantibus insidiis inimici, percussa est, atque in frusta decidit comminuta, effusumque oleum veloclter terra absorbuit. Tamen puer qui aderat, cum vidisset factum, accepto vasculo, ipsam terram exprimens parumper olei elicuit, rosamque quoe effusa fuerat, cum effracto vitro colligens, nobis exhibuit. Quod ego accipiens, diligenter in vasculum alterum transmutavi. Frat enim mensura olei quasi dimidii calicis parvuli: et tamen in vasculo duorum digitorum. tantum altitudinem fecit. In crastino autem prospiciens, erat altitudo olei quasi quatuor digitorum. Obstupefactus ego ob virtutem sancti liquoris, hoc signaculo meo munitum atque coopertum reliqui. Post dies autem septem iterum prospiciens, plus ibi quam unum sextarium reperi.","english":"And anointing his forehead and temples from this liquid, he asked that the little vessel also be placed beside the Blessed one's tomb. On the fourth day, however, when a fever pressed upon him, he sought the basilica and, prostrate for a very long time, prayed. Taking up the little flask, which he had left half full, he found it full, and marveling at the power of the blessed Bishop, he carried it home with fear and veneration. When he had been anointed from it again, immediately all the heat of his ailment subsided, and he was never broken by it again. What was also done afterward concerning this same little flask, we record not without deep sighing and wonder. For when it was hanging on the wall in the little lodging of the aforementioned deacon, through the assaults of the enemy lying in wait, it was struck and fell shattered into pieces, and the oil that poured out the earth quickly absorbed. Nevertheless, the boy who was present, when he saw what had happened, took a vessel and, pressing the earth itself, drew out a little oil, and gathering up the rose—that is, what had been poured out—together with the broken glass, he showed it to us. Taking it, I carefully transferred it into another little vessel. For the measure of the oil was, as it were, half a small cup; and yet in the vessel it made only the height of two fingers. On the next day, however, looking again, the height of the oil was, as it were, four fingers. I, astonished at the power of the holy liquid, left it fortified and covered with my seal. After seven days, however, looking again, I found there more than a sextarius.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":77,"ref":"p77","source":"Advocans auteM diaconem, et hoc ei ostendens admirabar. lite vero affirmabat cum juramento, tantum tunc in effracta periisse ampulla, quantum tunc in ista cer. neretur. Quae usque hodie in Dei nomine beneficium petentibus præstat. Ipse quoque postea ab hoc unguento similem infirmum perungens, oleo crescente, sanavit, et multos deinceps per illud sanitaii reslituit.\n\nCAPUT XXXIII.\n\nDe Allomere contracto.\n\nProferat et Andegava regio miraculum suum, de qua Allomeris quidam procedens cum contractis pedibus ac manibus, lingua etiam debilis, beati Confessoris templuin expetiit. Ubi cum tota Quadragesima resedisset, assidue orans ac deprecans, ut eum virtus sancti Antistitis visitaret, advenit dies ilia Dominica ante sanctum Pascha, in qua Dominus noster Jesus stratas ab arborum spoliis [£d., foliis] vias incedens, Hierosolymis venit, turba prosequente, ac clamante: Hosanna, Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini (Matth. xxi, 9). Illa ergo die cum sero jam factum esset, et ipse solus a foris ante tumulum decubaret, subito factus est in ecstasi, et pavore perterritus jacebat ut mortuus.","english":"Calling the deacon over and showing him this, I was amazed. But he affirmed with an oath that only as much had been lost then from the broken flask as was now seen in this wax. And this flask to this day, in God's name, bestows healing upon those who seek it. He himself also afterward anointed a similarly sick man with this ointment, and the oil increased, and he healed him, and thereafter restored many to health through it.\n\nCHAPTER XXXIII.\n\nConcerning Allomeris, a cripple.\n\nLet the region of Angers also bring forth its own miracle. From it a certain Allomeris, crippled in feet and hands and weak in tongue as well, made his way to the church of the blessed Confessor. When he had sat there throughout the whole of Lent, praying and entreating without ceasing that the power of the holy Bishop might visit him, there came that Sunday before holy Easter on which our Lord Jesus, entering Jerusalem, came along roads strewn with the spoils of trees, with the crowd following and crying out: Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. On that day, then, when it had already grown late and he himself lay alone outside before the tomb, suddenly he was thrown into an ecstasy, and, terrified with dread, he lay as if dead.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":78,"ref":"p78","source":"Qui cum, ut ipse refert, per duarum horarum spatium aut amplius fuisset oppressus, tanquam de somno evigilans, suliito ad sensum suum revertitur elevatusque sursum, sanum se esse miratur; ibique tola nocte vigilans, mane nobis quae acta sunt ore proprio reseravit: clericusque factus, incolumis ad hospitiolum, suum rcdiil.\n\nCAPUT XXXIV.\n\nDe clerico cæco.\n\nDenique eodem anno, cum festivitas, quae in aestivo celebratur a, desiderabilis populis advenisset, clericus quidam, cujus oculum nubes tetra contexerat, ac ne lumen videre posset arcebat, ædem beati Confessoris adivit. Vigilata cum reliquis nocte, illucescente cœlo, dum de basilica proccdit, visum, quem olim perdiderat, recipere meruit. In eadem vero festivitate tres energumeni multum se collidentes, ac beatum Antistitem declamantes, fatentes crimina, et ut sibi Sanctus pacem redderet deprecantes, tandem purulentum nescio quid ex ore projiciunt, et sic virtute Sancti mundati sunt.","english":"When he had been oppressed, as he himself reports, for a space of two hours or more, waking as if from sleep, he suddenly returned to his senses and, raised up, marveled that he was sound; and watching there all night, in the morning he disclosed to us with his own mouth what had been done; and having been made a cleric, he returned safe to his little lodging.\n\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\n\nConcerning the blind cleric.\n\nFinally, in the same year, when the festival which is celebrated in summer, desirable to the peoples, had arrived, a certain cleric, whose eye a dark cloud had covered and prevented from seeing the light, went to the church of the blessed Confessor. Having kept vigil with the others through the night, as the sky grew light, while he was proceeding from the basilica, he merited to receive the sight which he had once lost. And indeed at the same festival three possessed persons, dashing themselves about greatly and crying out upon the blessed Bishop, confessing their crimes, and beseeching that the Saint would restore peace to them, at last threw out from their mouth some purulent matter or other, and thus were cleansed by the power of the Saint.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":79,"ref":"p79","source":"CAPUT XXXV.\n\nDe carcerariis dimissis.\n\nIn proximo autem, id est post tertium de festivitate diem, erant quatuor vincti in carcere. Cumque eos sævitia judicis ita constringeret, ut nec victus necessaria ulli præbere liceret, AntistiUs beati praesidia corde puro precantur. Dum hæc igitur devoe agerent, medio die subito scinditur trabs, qua pedes eorum conclusi coarctabantur, confractisque catenis liberatos se sentiunt. Nec mora ostium petunt, quo aperto, ecclesiam Sancti nemine prohibente, ingressi sunt. Custodes autem in tantum obstupefacti fuerunt, ut nec verbis eos quidem increpare præsumerent: qui etiam sequentes eos, cum eisdem in ec clesia se abdiderunt. Illi autem admirantes maximas gratias Deo referunt, quod eos obtentu Pontificis dignatus fuerit liberare.\n\nCAPUT XXXVI.\n\nDe pignoribus, quæ Leodovaldus episcopus detulit.\n\n. Mulli etiam fide pleni reliquias beati Viri portantes, virtutes multas experiuntur. Nam Leodovaldus Abrincatinæ civitatis episcopus c, sancti Domni reliquias per presbyterum suum devotus expetiit. Quibus acceptis, cum terminum antedictæ civitatis ingressus fuisset, occurrit ei adhuc inter deserta posito paralyticus deferentium illatus manibus; osculatus autem fideliter velum quo capsa sanctorum pignorum cooperta erat, mox in pedes constitit, ac propriis gressibus domum regressus est.","english":"CHAPTER XXXV.\n\nConcerning the prisoners released.\n\nNow on the next day, that is, after the third day of the festival, there were four men bound in prison. And when the savagery of the judge so constrained them that no one was permitted to provide even the necessities of food to any of them, they besought the protection of the blessed Antistius with a pure heart. While they were thus devoutly doing this, at midday the beam by which their feet were confined and pressed together was suddenly split, and with their chains broken they feel themselves freed. Without delay they seek the door, and when it was opened, they entered the church of the Saint with no one forbidding them. But the guards were so utterly stunned that they did not presume even to rebuke them with words; and they too, following them, hid themselves with them in the church. But they, marveling, give the greatest thanks to God, because he had deigned to free them through the intercession of the Bishop.\n\nCHAPTER XXXVI.\n\nConcerning the relics which Bishop Leodovaldus brought.\n\nMany also, full of faith, carrying relics of the blessed Man, experience many miracles. For Leodovaldus, bishop of the city of Abrincae, devoutly sought the relics of the holy Domnus through his presbyter. When these had been received, and he had entered the territory of the aforesaid city, a paralytic, carried in the hands of those bearing him, met him while he was still situated among the wilderness places; and having faithfully kissed the veil with which the box of the holy relics was covered, he immediately stood upon his feet, and returned home on his own steps.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":80,"ref":"p80","source":"Hæc enim agis, beatissime Confessor, nec tibi sat est propriam sedem exornare prodigiis, nisi etiam diversos saltus quos pedibus non adiisti virtutibus tremendis it! ustres. Sed et deinceps caecus quidam, adminiculo deducente, in occursum earum velocijer properat. Adveniens autem quando Beatf pignora in sanctum locabantur altare, expedita solemnitate, visum recipere meruit oculorum. Sed et alia nihilominus mulier, quae diu muta fuerat, sermonis usum recepit.\n\nCAPUT XXXVII.\n\nDe energumeno sanalo.\n\nIlis etenim diebus ad beati Viri basilicam quidam ex energumenis, cum multos se cruciatus daemonum perferre declamaret, et vi se ejici de acquisito vasculo per beatum Antistitem fateretur, dejectus in terram e sanguinem feUdum per os coepitejicere. Qui duarum fere horarum spatio jacens, expulso daemone, purgatus ac erectus est.\n\nCAPUT XXXVIII.","english":"For you do these things, most blessed Confessor, nor is it enough for you to adorn your own seat with prodigies, unless you also make illustrious with dread virtues the various glades which you have not visited with your feet. But also thereafter a certain blind man, with a guide leading him, hastens more swiftly to meet them. But when he arrived at the time when the blessed relics were being placed upon the holy altar, the ceremony being completed, he merited to receive the sight of his eyes. But also another woman likewise, who had long been mute, received the use of speech.\n\nCHAPTER XXXVII.\n\nConcerning the demoniac healed.\n\nFor in those days, to the basilica of the blessed man, a certain one of the demoniacs, when he cried out that he was enduring many torments of demons, and confessed that by the blessed Bishop he was being cast out by force from the vessel he had acquired, thrown down to the ground, began to spew foul blood through his mouth. And lying for the space of nearly two hours, with the demon expelled, he was cleansed and raised up.\n\nCHAPTER XXXVIII.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":81,"ref":"p81","source":"De puella muta.\n\nPuella quaedam parvula, indigena Turonicae civitatis, ab utero matris suae muta processit. Cujus os in tantum obseratum fuit, ut nec illas, quae cunabulorum tempore eduntur voces posset emittere. Mater vero de tam tristi fetu anxia, cum lugeret assidue, commonetur per visum, ut beati Praesulis sepulcrum adiret. Quae excitata ad templum sancti cum puellula pergit I intrepida; expositaque ante sepulcrum Sancti, cum diutissime orasset, iterum eam secum assumit. Accenso vero thymiamate, cum eam desuper retineret, interrogat eam, si bonum ei odorem faceret? Illa respondit: Bonum. Hanc primam vocem filiae mater moesta cognovit. Imposita vero ori ejus aqua, quam quondam de fontibus acceperat benedictis, interrogat iterum qualem ei saporem.praeberet. Illa respondit: Bonum. Tunc mater cum gaudio sospitem domum filiam refert, quam tristis ad Beati tumulum lide fida detulerat (Vid. lib. II de Gloria Mart. c. 26).","english":"Concerning the mute girl.\n\nA certain little girl, a native of the city of Tours, came forth mute from her mother's womb. Her mouth was closed up to such an extent that she could not utter even those sounds which are produced in the time of the cradle. But her mother, anxious over such a sad offspring, while she grieved continually, was admonished through a vision to go to the tomb of the blessed Bishop. Roused, she goes to the church of the saint with the little girl, undaunted; and having laid her before the tomb of the Saint, when she had prayed for a very long time, she takes her up again with her. But when incense had been lit, while she held her above it, she asks her whether it made a good odor for her. She answered: Good. This first utterance of her daughter the grieving mother recognized. But having put upon her mouth water which she had once received from the blessed springs, she asks again what taste it gave her. She answered: Good. Then the mother with joy carries her daughter home safe, whom she had sadly brought to the tomb of the Blessed One, faithful in her prayer.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":82,"ref":"p82","source":"CAPUT XXXIX.\n\nDe eo quod Aredius presbyter pro benedictione portavit.\n\nAredius vir religiosus ex Lemovicino caUSA tantum devotionis Turonis advenit, et beatum sepulcrum orando deosculans, ad monasterium sanctum i amne transito pervenit. Qui dum singula loca visitat, quae Vir beatus aut orando depresserat, aut psallendo sanctificaverat, ac ubi vel fesso corpori somnum, vel inedia deficienti cibum praebuerat; dumque concta circuit, cuncta peragrat, veuit ad puteum, quem Sanctus Dci proprio labore patefecit, fusaque oratione aquam haurit, impositamque in ampullula, domum regrediens deportavit. Cumque exinde infirmis multis tribueret sanitates, quadam vice Renosindus frater a ejus vi febrium impulsus, decubuit lectulo. Octava vero die cum jam oculis clairsis in hoc jaceret, ut spiritum exhalaret, atque omnis familia perstreperet mortem condolens patroni, vel funeri necessaria praepararet, venit in mentem presbytero, ut de aqua beati putei in ore defuncturoguttam inferret. Qua illata, ubi primum os ejus attigit, mox oculos aegrotus aperuit, absolutaque etiam lingua, rogat sibi adhuc exinde ministrari: acceptoque calice, ut bibit, statim omnis febris effu git; et sic, admirante familia, sanus a lectulo in quo jacebat erectus est.","english":"CHAPTER XXXIX.\n\nConcerning the fact that Aredius the presbyter brought [water] for a blessing.\n\nAredius, a religious man from the territory of Limoges, came to Tours for the sake of devotion alone, and kissing the blessed tomb in prayer, he crossed the river and came to the holy monastery. And while he visits each place which the blessed man had either hallowed by praying or sanctified by singing psalms, and where he had given sleep to his weary body or food to himself when faint with fasting; and while he goes around and traverses all things, he came to the well which the Saint of God had opened by his own labor, and having poured out prayer, he drew water, and having put it into a small vessel, he carried it back home as he returned. And when he gave healings from it to many sick persons, on a certain occasion Renosindus, a brother, struck by the force of fevers from it, lay down on his bed. But on the eighth day, when he already lay with his eyes closed, so that he might breathe out his spirit, and the whole household was making loud lamentation, grieving the death of their master, or preparing what was necessary for the funeral, it came into the presbyter's mind to put a drop of the water of the blessed well into the mouth of the dying man. When it was brought in, as soon as it touched his mouth, the sick man at once opened his eyes, and with his tongue also released, he asked that more of it be given to him; and having received the cup, as he drank, immediately all the fever fled away; and so, with the household marveling, he was raised up healthy from the bed on which he lay.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":83,"ref":"p83","source":"CAPUT XL.\n\nDe Situlfo manco.\n\nQuid autem de istis miraculis mea parvitas poterit enarrare, cum assumptus Sanctus Dei de mundo adhuc praedicator habeatur in mundo? Et cum se palam populis ostentare nequeat, jugiter se patefactis virtutibus manifestat, dum caecos illuminat, dum paralyticos sanat, dumque et reliquos ægrotos pristinæ sospitati reformat. Sed ego, ut saepe testatus sum, indignum me censeo tanli viri tigna depromere. Tamen quia audax audeo, veniam peto a legente. Quia enim me impellit amor patroni, et quia esse adhuc eum denuntiavi praedicatorem, dicam quid contigerit nuper. Sisulfus ex Cenomanicis pauperculus, dum in hortulo suo meridie obdormisset, nescio quid nequitiae perpessus est. E somno autem exsiliens, contractis in volam digitis, cum magno dolore manus debiles elevavit, ipso quoque dolore premente, rursum solvitur in soporcm: et vidit per visum, et ecce vir stabat ante cum nigris vestibus, cano autem capite. Qni conver. sus: Quid sic, inquit, tu fletibus commoveris? Et ille: Ecce, venerabilis domine, dum parumper obdormivi, cum dolore expergefactus opus manuum mearum perdidi, et nescio quid sceleris commisissem. Tunc vir ille, tanquam discipulis Dominus de caeco nato, quia neque ille peccaverat, neque parentes rjus, sed ut manifestaretur opus Dei in illo (Joan. IX, 2), ait: Debilitas tua tormentum indicat populi delinquentis.","english":"CHAPTER XL.\n\nConcerning Sisulfus the maimed.\n\nBut how can my smallness set forth these miracles, when the holy man of God, taken from the world, is still proclaimed as a preacher in the world? And though he cannot openly display himself to the peoples, he continually makes himself manifest by the wonders he reveals, now enlightening the blind, now healing the paralytic, and restoring the rest of the sick to their former health. But I, as I have often testified, count myself unworthy to bring forth the deeds of so great a man. Yet because I boldly dare, I beg pardon from the reader. For since love of my patron compels me, and since I have declared that he is still a preacher, I shall tell what happened recently. Sisulfus, a poor man from the territory of Le Mans, while he was sleeping at midday in his little garden, suffered I know not what mischief. Leaping up from sleep, with his fingers contracted into his palm, he raised his weakened hands with great pain, and as the pain itself pressed upon him, he was again dissolved into sleep; and he saw in a vision, and behold, a man stood before him in black garments, but with white hair. And turning to him, he said, \"Why are you thus troubled with weeping?\" And he said, \"Behold, venerable lord, while I slept a little, I awoke in pain and have lost the work of my hands, and I know not what crime I have committed.\" Then that man, as the Lord did to his disciples concerning the man born blind—that neither he had sinned, nor his parents, but that the work of God might be made manifest in him (John 9:2)—said: \"Your weakness indicates the torment of a sinful people.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":84,"ref":"p84","source":"Vade ergo nunc per vicos et castella, et ad civitatem usque pertende; et prædica, ut se omnis bomo a rapinis, perjuriis et usuris abstineat, et in die Dominico nullum opus, absque solemnitatibus mysticis, agat. Ecce enim coram Domino In lacrymis decumbemus veniam pro populo deprecantes, et adlate spes est obtinendi, si emendatio subsequatur in p!cbc. Nam hostilitates, et infirmitates, et alia multa mala, quae perfert populus, indignatio Domini commovet c. Et ideo annuntia velociter, ut se emendare studeant, ne crudeliter in scelere suo depereant. Tu vero bis peractis quae imperavi, Turonis ad basilicam meam propera; ibique te visitans, obtinebo apud Dominum ut saneris. Cui ille: Dic, quæso, domine, quis es, vel quod est nomen tuum? Cui vir: Ego sum, inquit, Martinus Turonorum sacerdos. In his Sancti verbis pauper surrexit a somno, apprehensoque bacello, iter imperatum aggreditur, et quae sibi fuerant imperata populis nuntiavit. Mense autem septimo postquam haec acta sunt, beatam basilicam adiit, ibique prostratus per triduum, quarta die a Sancti virtute visitatus est. Jam enim computruerat in eo caro palmarum ejus, quae clausa detinebatur. Et cum digiti ejus directi fuissent, sanguis ab eisdem erupit. Sed eis omnibus medicatis, ore proprio quæ retulimus enarravit.","english":"Go therefore now through villages and towns, and press on even to the city; and preach that every man abstain from robberies, perjuries, and usuries, and that on the Lord's day he do no work, except the mystic solemnities. For behold, before the Lord we shall lie down in tears, beseeching pardon for the people, and there is hope of obtaining it, if amendment follow in the people. For hostilities, and sicknesses, and many other evils which the people endure, the wrath of the Lord stirs up. And therefore announce quickly, that they may strive to amend themselves, lest they perish cruelly in their crime. But when you have accomplished these things which I have commanded, hasten to Tours, to my basilica; and there, visiting you, I shall obtain from the Lord that you be healed. To whom he said: Tell me, I pray, lord, who you are, or what is your name? To whom the man said: I am Martin, priest of the people of Tours. At these words of the saint the poor man rose from sleep, and taking up his staff, he undertook the journey commanded him, and announced to the peoples the things that had been commanded him. But in the seventh month after these things were done, he came to the blessed basilica, and there, prostrate for three days, on the fourth day he was visited by the power of the saint. For already the flesh of his palms, which was held closed, had rotted within him. And when his fingers had been straightened out, blood burst forth from them. But when they had all been healed, with his own mouth he recounted the things which we have related.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":85,"ref":"p85","source":"CAPUT XLI.\n\nDe cæco illuminnto.\n\nFacis ergo, beatissime Confessor; tuo more, propitiaris iniquitatibus populi, et sanas languores omnium, cunctosque te tidelitcr invocantes tuis medicamentis illustras; nec frauilas extraneos, quod propriis libenter indulges. Homo ergo iucola territorii Turonici, annorum quasi viginti quinque •, cum a febre lippitudinis gravaretur, decidentibus cataractis, obstrictisque palpebris valde caecatus est. Super quod malum adjiciebatur et illud, quod a fuste percussus, disrupto visu, unus ci crepuit oculus. Jam enim per viginti quinque annos in hac cæcitate degcbat. Admonitus ergo per visum, ad Beati tumulum venit, ubi orationi incumbens, die tertia unius oculi lumen recepit. Dehinc animatus hoc medicamine, attentius coepit orare; Quarto autem die oculus qui crepueral, reformato visu, apcritur. Qui licet non lam clarus cernatur [ Al. clare cernatj quam alter, luminis tamen beneficium praebet.","english":"CHAPTER XLI.\n\nConcerning the blind man who was given light.\n\nYou act, then, most blessed Confessor, in your accustomed manner: you propitiate the iniquities of the people, and you heal the sicknesses of all, and all who faithfully invoke you you enlighten with your remedies; nor do you disdain strangers, in that you freely grant to them what is your own. A man, then, an inhabitant of the territory of Tours, about twenty-five years of age, when he was afflicted by a fever of the eyes, with the cataracts falling and his eyelids tightly closed, was greatly blinded. To this evil was added also this: that, struck by a club, with his sight ruptured, one of his eyes burst. For already for twenty-five years he had lived in this blindness. Warned, then, by a vision, he came to the tomb of the Blessed one, where, applying himself to prayer, on the third day he received the light of one eye. Then, encouraged by this remedy, he began to pray more intently; but on the fourth day the eye which had burst, with its sight restored, was opened. And although it is not seen to be as clear as the other, it nevertheless provides the benefit of light.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":86,"ref":"p86","source":"CAPUT XLII.\n\nDe manu hominis coulracta.\n\nDebilis quidam, cujus manus contracta dirigucrat, dum in atrio, quod ante Beati sepulcrum habetur, orarct alente, in sancta ejus vigilia visitatus esi, directisque digitis, manus ejus ad usum pristinum resttuta convaluit.\n\nCAPUT XLIII.\n\nDe pu rvlo suscitato.\n\nq\"oties hic prophetarum, et sublimium virlutes virorum, quas olim gestas legimus, renovari miramur? Sed quid inquam? Quod hi multi fecerunt viventes in sæculo, hic solus renovat quotidie, euam post sepulcrum. Quid ergo agimus? quid silemus? quid occultamus pauci quod populi declamant multi? Non diutius in hac statione moremur. Proferamus novum Elisaeum saeculo nostro, qui cadaver defuncti vivum remisit a monumento (IV Reg. xiii, 21): id quoque beatus Confessor nobis praesentibus operatus est. Quae enim causa fuerit, adjutorium individuae Trinitatis efflagitans, explicabo. Puer genitus, lacte materno deficiente, nutrici ad alendum datur. Quae hoc liquore sterilis dum non copiose, ut ilii ætatulae opportunum est, lactis alimentum ministrat, coepit qui proficere debuerat, die praetereunte, decrescere, et ita minui, ut nihil in eo amplius quam pellis tenuis, quae ejus ossula sola contegeret, remaneret. Qui, matre mortua, unum prope in hoc exitu duxerat annum. Erat enim unicus patri, et de uxoria dilectione a quoddam memoriale.","english":"CHAPTER XLII.\n\nConcerning a man's hand contracted.\n\nA certain weak man, whose hand had been contracted, while he was praying at evening in the atrium that is situated before the blessed tomb, was visited on the saint's vigil; and with his fingers straightened, his hand was restored to its former use and grew strong.\n\nCHAPTER XLIII.\n\nConcerning a little boy raised up.\n\nHow often do we marvel that the mighty deeds of the prophets and of exalted men, which we read were done long ago, are renewed? But what am I saying? What many of these men accomplished while living in the world, this one alone renews daily, even after the tomb. What then do we do? Why are we silent? Why do we few conceal what many of the people proclaim? Let us no longer linger in this position. Let us bring forth a new Elisha for our age, who sent a dead man's corpse back alive from the tomb (2 Kings 13:21): this also the blessed Confessor accomplished in our presence. For I will explain what the occasion was, imploring the aid of the undivided Trinity. A boy was born, and when his mother's milk failed, he was given to a nurse to be fed. Since she, being barren of this liquid, did not abundantly supply the nourishment of milk as was fitting for that tender age, he who ought to have thriven began, as the day passed, to decline and to diminish, so that nothing remained in him beyond a thin skin, which covered only his little bones. After his mother died, he had drawn out nearly one year in this condition. For he was his father's only son, and a certain memorial of his wife's love.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":87,"ref":"p87","source":"Cui, victu, ut diximus, minuente, jam deficienti ex inedia febris accessit. Ut autem hic cum fervor attigit, concurrit pater ad ecclesiam, ne-proles absque baptismi regeneratione moreretur. Qui baptizatus, nec confortatus corpore præter illud spiritale remedium, jam suffossis oculis, palpebrisque laxatis atque demissis, nullum jam flatum spiraminis habens, super beatum sepulcrum, patre ejulante deponitur. Nec defuit virtus illa coelestis, quae quondam parvulum inter manus Confessoris beati vivificavit b. At ubi primum ejus vestimentum coopertorium tumuli attigit, illico parvulus respiravit. Mirum miraculum! videres pallentes genas gradatim, virtute divina insis ente, rubescere, et sop tos oculos in lumine redivivo laxari. Tunc a Sancto vivificatus, et a patre recepus, sospes usque hodie in testimonium virtutis habetur.\n\nCAPUT XLIV.","english":"To him, as his nourishment failed, as we have said, and he was already failing from starvation, a fever came on. But when the heat of it reached him, the father ran to the church, lest the child should die without the regeneration of baptism. He was baptized, but not strengthened in body beyond that spiritual remedy; and now with his eyes sunken and his eyelids slack and drooping, having no breath of life left at all, he was laid upon the blessed tomb while his father wailed. Nor was that heavenly power absent which once gave life to a little child in the hands of the blessed Confessor. But as soon as his covering garment touched the tomb, the little child breathed again at once. A wondrous miracle! You would see his pale cheeks gradually grow red as the divine power pressed upon him, and his drowsy eyes open in renewed light. Then, given life by the saint and received back by his father, he is kept safe to this day as a testimony of the saint's power.\n\nCHAPTER XLIV.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":88,"ref":"p88","source":"De alio cæco illuminalo.\n\nSed et de Pictavo quidam caecus, per sex annos lumine viduatus, triduana prostratione ad beatum tumulum orans, lumen quo diu caruerat, operante solita virtute, recepit. Actum est autem hoc per festivitatcm sancti patroni, in qua Marovcus Pictavis antistes aderat, non immerito Hilarii beatissimi di8: ipulus præconandus. Qui, solemnitate explicita, cum illuminato concive gaudens remeavit ad propriam urbem.\n\nCAPUT XLV.\n\nDe duobus puerulis sanatis.\n\nApud Vultaconnum quoque vicum Pictavensem, dum duo pueruli nocte Dominica in una stratu quiescerent, visum est cis quasi signum quod matutinis commoveri s'olet sonantem audissent; et surgentes de cubili suo, direxerunt ad ecclesiam. Cumque in atrium ecclesiae pervenissent, invenerunt ibidem choros mulierum canentium. Exterritique valde, cognoscentes catervam esse dæmoniorum, dum ad terram corruunt, nec se, ut est aetatis infirmitas, signo salutari præmuniunt, unus lumine, alius et lumine et gressu mulctatur. Cumque per multorum annorum curricula in his infirmitatibus gravareniur; unus, qui tantum lumine caruerat, ad beati Martin i basilicam devote veniens, ut orationem explevit, statim visum recepit. Alius, in eodem sancto loco lumine recepto, ad propria rediens, adhuc debilis claudicabat.","english":"Concerning another blind man who was illuminated.\n\nBut also a certain blind man from Poitiers, deprived of light for six years, praying for three days prostrate at the blessed tomb, received the light which he had long lacked, by the working of the accustomed power. This was done, moreover, during the festival of the holy patron, at which Maroveus, bishop of Poitiers, was present—not undeservedly to be proclaimed a disciple of the most blessed Hilary. When the solemnity was concluded, rejoicing with the fellow citizen who had been illuminated, he returned to his own city.\n\nCHAPTER XLV.\n\nConcerning two little boys healed.\n\nAt the village of Vultaconnum in the territory of Poitiers as well, while two little boys were resting at night on the Lord's Day in one bed, it seemed to them as though they had heard the bell that is customarily rung to rouse people for morning prayer; and rising from their bed, they made their way to the church. And when they had come into the atrium of the church, they found there companies of women singing. And greatly terrified, recognizing that it was a troop of demons, while they fell to the ground, they did not fortify themselves with the saving sign, as is the weakness of their age—one was deprived of sight, the other of both sight and the power of walking. And when for the course of many years they were afflicted with these infirmities, the one who had only lacked sight, coming devoutly to the basilica of the blessed Martin, as soon as he had completed his prayer, immediately received his sight. The other, having received sight in that same holy place, returning to his own home, still weak, walked with a limp.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":89,"ref":"p89","source":"VeHiensque ad cellulam Condatensem, in qua lectum beati Viri babetur, dum ibidem nocte Dominica vigiliae celebrarentur, subito, orante-populo, sensit divinam virtutem adesse. Et spectante plebe se per terram trahens, contra parietem se erexit, in quo fenestra retinetur, quae fuit quondam Beati corporis porta. Et orans, atque præ gaudio lacrymans, integrae sanitati restituitur, nee ulterius pertulit de malis infirmitatibus gravitatem.\n\nCAPUT XLVI.\n\nDe claudo directo,\n\nPuerulus quidam, Leodulfus nomine, pede sinistro debilis, dum cum reliquis petentibus stipendia quaerendo circuiret, Turonis advenit. Et cum parumper moratus e, iter quod agere coeperat conatur explere. Et progressus claudicando cum satellitibus, decimo ab urbe milliario vi tloloris opprimitur. Nelictus vero a sociis, solus super ripam alvei ejulabat, multis ad festivitatem concurrentibus proclamans, et dicens: Væ mihi quia solemnitatem gloriosi Viri spectare nolui, ideo me virtus ejus allidit. Qua de re rogo vos, fidelissimi Christiani, qui Deum timetis, subvenite ignorantiae mcae, subvenile oppresso et debili; et, si timor Dei manet [4/., movetj, me usque ad sanctum locum deportate. Igitur cum haec a multis praetereuntibus imploraret, quidam plaustro suo superpositum usque ad sanctam basilicam duxit. Ubi triduanam orationem continuans, redintegratis pedibus, incolumis abscessit.","english":"And coming to the cell at Condat, in which the bed of the blessed man is kept, while the vigils of the Lord's day were being celebrated there, suddenly, as the people prayed, he sensed that divine power was present. And while the crowd looked on, dragging himself along the ground, he raised himself against the wall in which is held the window that was once the doorway of the blessed body. And praying, and weeping for joy, he was restored to complete health, nor did he afterward endure the heaviness of grievous infirmities.\n\nCHAPTER XLVI.\n\nConcerning a lame man made straight.\n\nA certain little boy, Leodulf by name, weak in the left foot, while he went about with other beggars seeking alms, came to Tours. And when he had stayed there a little while, he tried to complete the journey he had begun. And having set out limping with his companions, at the tenth milestone from the city he was overcome by the force of pain. But abandoned by his companions, he alone was wailing on the bank of the river channel, crying out to the many who were running to the festival, and saying: Woe to me, because I was unwilling to behold the solemnity of the glorious man; therefore his power has struck me down. For this reason I ask you, most faithful Christians, who fear God, come to the aid of my ignorance, come to the aid of one oppressed and weak; and, if the fear of God remains in you, carry me all the way to the holy place. Therefore when he had implored this of many passersby, certain ones placed him on their cart and led him all the way to the holy basilica. There, continuing prayer for three days, with his feet restored, he departed sound.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":90,"ref":"p90","source":"CAPUT XLVII.\n\nDe contracto, quem bos trahebat.\n\nErat quidam contractus, qui in similitudinem eremitæ, cui bos quondam solatium fuit, bovem unum habebat. Quo bove plaustro conjuncto per domos trahebatur, stipem postulans devotorum. Igitur cam. imminente festivitate Pontificis Turonis:Hlven;sset, prostratus coram scpulcro, et orationi incumbens, devotissime beati Antistitis auxilium flagitavit, cleportatusque iterum a suis ante sanctam absidam tumuli ponitur. Cumque expletis missis, populus coepisset sacrosanctum corpus Redemptoris accipere a, illico dissolutis nodis qui genua nexa tenebant, in pedes erigitur. Admirantibus cunctis, gratias agens, proprio gressu usque ad beatum altare, nemine sustentante, processit, sanus deinceps dfgens.\n\nCAPUT XLVIII.\n\nDe eo qui manus ac pedes contractos habebal.\n\nEx pago autem Carnonensi b, qui in Andegavo territorio habetur insitus, vir quidam, nomine Floridus, manibus pedibusque contractis, ad sanctam cellulam Condatensem, de qua beatus Confessor ad Christum migravit, allatus est. Ubi dum in vigiliis et oratione paucis diebus vacare studuit, omnis aegritudo a corpore ejus fugata discessit. Sicque directis membris, incolumis ad propria remeavit.","english":"CHAPTER XLVII.\n\nConcerning the cripple whom an ox drew.\n\nThere was a certain cripple who, in the manner of a hermit, had one ox, which was once a comfort to him. With this ox yoked to a cart, he was drawn about from house to house, seeking alms from the devout. Therefore, when the festival of the Bishop of Tours was at hand, he had himself brought there, and prostrate before the tomb, and applying himself to prayer, he most devoutly implored the aid of the blessed Bishop; and being carried again by his own people, he was placed before the sacred apse of the tomb. And when the masses had been completed and the people had begun to receive the most holy body of the Redeemer, immediately, the knots that held his knees bound being loosed, he rose to his feet. While all marveled, giving thanks, he proceeded on his own steps all the way to the blessed altar, with no one supporting him, sound thereafter and living.\n\nCHAPTER XLVIII.\n\nConcerning him who had his hands and feet contracted.\n\nBut from the district of Carnonacum, which is situated within the territory of Andegavum, a certain man, by name Floridus, with hands and feet contracted, was brought to the holy cell of Condat, from which the blessed Confessor departed to Christ. There, while he devoted himself to vigils and prayer for a few days, all his sickness was driven away and departed from his body. And so, with his limbs made straight, he returned home sound.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":91,"ref":"p91","source":"CAPUT XLIX.\n\nDe eo qui conlraclum brachium delulit.\n\nVenerat dies festus solemnilatis, in qua catervae populorum multae convenerant, et ecce debilis quidam contracto brachio adfuit. Dumque beatum sepulcrum labiis osculatur, lacrymis rigat, voce beati Confessoris auxilium implorat, fide non diffisus Melitum praestolabatur auxilium. Denique sacerdotibus qui advenerant, ad agenda solemnia procedentibus, cum lector, cui legendi erat officium, advenissel, et arrepto libro, vitam sancti cwpisset legere Confessoris (Vid. supra, cup. 29), protinus hie directo brachio sanus erigitur, et spectantibus cunctis, praesidia quai fideliter petiit impetravit.\n\nCAPUT L.\n\nDe cæco illuminato.\n\nSic et caecus in eadem festivitate supplex implorans receptionem visionis, ut pallulam attigit, quae a foris ad pedes Sancti de pariete dependet, mox erumpente a palpebris sanguine, testo populo, visum recepit.","english":"CHAPTER XLIX.\n\nConcerning the man who brought a withered arm.\n\nThe festal day of the solemnity had come, on which many crowds of people had gathered together, and behold, a certain weak man with a withered arm was present. And while he kisses the blessed tomb with his lips, waters it with tears, and implores the aid of the blessed Confessor with his voice, not distrusting in faith he awaited the help of Martin. Then, when the priests who had come forward were proceeding to perform the solemn rites, and the lector, whose office it was to read, had arrived, and having taken up the book had begun to read the life of the holy Confessor (see above, chapter 29), straightway this man was raised up healed with his arm made straight, and while all looked on, he obtained the protections which he had faithfully sought.\n\nCHAPTER L.\n\nConcerning the blind man who was enlightened.\n\nThus also a blind man at the same festivity, suppliant, imploring the recovery of sight, as soon as he touched the little cloth which hangs on the outside from the wall at the feet of the Saint, presently, with blood bursting forth from his eyelids, as the people witnessed, he received his sight.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":92,"ref":"p92","source":"CAPUT LI.\n\nDe dysenlericis.\n\nCum autem morbus ille dysentericus cum oCcultis pustulis multas attereret civitates, ac inter reliqua lo urbs Turonica gravius laboraret, mulli abraso a beato tumulo pulvere et hausto, sanabantur. Plerique, de oleo quod inibi 'betur delibuti, liberabantur; fuilquc nonnullis remedium aqua illa unde sepulcrum aulutum est ante Pascha c. Igitur, cum multis multa tribuerentur beneficia, vidi unnm in desperatione a dysenteria jacentem, huncque ad basilicam ductum, aliis vigilias celebrantibus, noctem iuquietam duxisset; diluculo vero accedens ad tumulum, potato cum vino pulvere, sanus rediit e scpulcro.\n\nCAPUT LII.\n\nDe alio ab humore gravi sanato.\n\nAlter quoque arreptus a febre valida, dejiciens ore venenum, et per inferiorem partem extra modum solulus, lectulo decubabat. Igitur grassante 'cneno, laboranti oritur vulnus in inguine, et incredibili modo movet se visibiliter usque ad plantam. Erat enim in magnitudine ovi anserini. Deindesursum repetens, cum nimio dolore discurrit per latera, per brachia, et usque ad cervicem progreditur: deinde per aliud latus ad plantam usque deducitur; exindc retrorsum revertens, ad cum locum unde primo oi tum fuerat venit. Cumque taliter per membra vagaretur ægroti, quo mi-er tenderet, quid ageret nesciebat, nisi tantum voces cum fleiibus dabat. Eligebat enim dolor gemitum, cum in uno corpusculo tanti dolores irruerent.","english":"CHAPTER LI.\n\nConcerning those suffering from dysentery.\n\nWhen that dysenteric disease with hidden pustules was laying waste many cities, and among others the city of Tours was suffering more grievously, many were healed by taking a scraped powder from the blessed tomb and drinking it. Very many were freed by being anointed with the oil that is kept there; and for some, that water with which the tomb was washed before Easter served as a remedy. Therefore, when many benefits were bestowed upon many, I saw one man lying in despair from dysentery, and when he had been brought to the basilica, while others were celebrating vigils, he passed an unquiet night; but at daybreak, approaching the tomb, he drank the powder with wine and returned healthy from the tomb.\n\nCHAPTER LII.\n\nConcerning another man healed from a severe humor.\n\nAnother man also, seized by a violent fever, casting out poison from his mouth and flowing excessively through the lower part, lay upon his bed. Therefore, as the malady raged, a wound arose in the groin of the suffering man, and in an incredible manner it moved visibly all the way to the sole of his foot. For it was the size of a goose's egg. Then, returning upward, with excessive pain it ran through his sides, through his arms, and advanced all the way to his neck; then through the other side it was led down all the way to the sole; then returning backward, it came to that place where it had first arisen. And while it wandered in such a way through the limbs of the sick man, he did not know where it was tending or what he should do, except only to utter cries with weeping. For pain chose groaning, since such great pains rushed upon one little body.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":93,"ref":"p93","source":"Tandem cnm hæc nobis nuntiata fuissent, indico solitam theriacam a vero requiri medico, ex quo vitam moriturus haberet: suadeo fidenter pulverem assumi de tumulo. At satellites cum magna festinatione currentes, elevatum pulverem monumenti deferunt ad ægrotum, delibulumque cum vino bibendum porigunt. Quo hausto, ita omnis dolor fugatus cst, ut ipsa hora redderetur incolumis.\n\nCAPUT nIl.\n\nDe exsense redintegrato.\n\nSine numero populi talia audientes, de long nq is regionibus beati expetunt praesidia Confessoris. In quo illud est prae caeteris admiranium, qualiter seusus hominum diaboli arte fraudati restituantur. Q iidam ergo Bajocassensis civis, dum vino nimium hausto turbatus per viam incederet, sub to diversis flantibus ventis pulvis campi commovetur, et mixtus, ut solet, cum stipulis in sublime levatur, fitque totus aer una nubes pulveris, de qua hic opetus, amisso sensu, equo dejicitur. Igitur post paululum a suis inventus domum turbulentus adducitur. Hinc offrenis factus conabatur fugere, nemine persequente. Quid plura? Arctatur vinculis, constipatur catenis, et in custodia detinetur. Qui dentibus fremens ob negatam sibi fugae libertatem, propriis se morsibus lacerabat. Dum autem huc ageremur, admoniti parentes ad Beati eum basilicam perduxerunt: ibique oratione per longum tempus facta sanus abscessit, vovens ut singulis annis veniens, vota sancto redderet Confessori.","english":"At last, when these things had been reported to us, I point out that the usual theriac ought to be sought from the true physician, from whom the dying man was to have life; I confidently advise that dust be taken from the tomb. And the attendants, running with great haste, brought the dust taken up from the monument to the sick man, and offered it, having been moistened with wine, to be drunk. When this had been swallowed, all his pain was so put to flight that in that very hour he was restored to health.\n\nCHAPTER LII.\n\nConcerning a madman restored.\n\nCountless people, hearing such things, seek the protections of the blessed Confessor from far-distant regions. In this matter that is especially to be wondered at, how the senses of men deceived by the devil's art are restored. A certain citizen of the city of Bayeux, therefore, while he was walking along the road disturbed by too much wine drunk, dust from the field is stirred up under the various winds blowing, and, mixed as usual with stubble, is lifted on high, and the whole air becomes one cloud of dust, from which this man, having lost his senses, is thrown from his horse. So after a little while he is found by his people and brought home raving. Then, made ungovernable, he kept trying to flee though no one pursued him. What more? He is bound fast with chains, pressed tight with fetters, and kept in custody. Gnashing his teeth because the freedom to flee was denied him, he tore himself with his own bites. But while we were on our way there, his parents, having been warned, brought him to the basilica of the Blessed One; and there, prayer having been made for a long time, he departed healed, vowing that he would come each year and pay his vows to the holy Confessor.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":94,"ref":"p94","source":"Deinde ad monasterium sibi proximum, humiliatis capillis a, ac presbyter ordinatus, coepit Deo strenue deservire, non tamen reddens qui promiserat beato Pontifici. Quarto igitur anno data, ut credo, iterum inimico in eum potestate, rursum ruit in redivivam amentiam, et constrictus, ut fuerat prius, catenis, ad sanctam reducitur ædem: ubi per sex dies b, et eo amplius, degens in vigiliis et orationibus, et reddens quae prius ignave fraudaverat, sanus domum regreditur. Sed peccatis ficientibus, iterum vino sæpius madefactus, » in eadem tribulatione obiit.\n\nCAPUT LIV.\n\nDe puella Lixoviensi cæca.\n\nSi singula quæque vel quae aguntur, vel quae acta sunt prosequamur, magnum cumulum congeremus de mirabilibus Confessoris. Puella vero ex Lexoensi jam adulta, lumen amiserat oculorum: quæ Sancti limina devote adiens, per omne tempus festivitatis orabat humo prostrata. Tertia autem die post sanctam festivitatem, cum sui eam redire urgerent, rogat se ad sepulcrum Beati deduci. Ibique iterum atque iierum prostrata, de palla, quæ sanctum tegit tumulum, oculos abstergens, et valedicens discessit. Cumque jam in navi ascenderet, ait: Gratias tibi ago, beate Confessor, quod etsi videre non merui tua sancta limina, vel tactu praesensi. Cum igitur hæc cum lacrymis edidisset, dum detergit oculos, lumen recopit, et conversa ait: Forsitan haec est Beati basilica?","english":"Then, at the monastery nearest to him, with his hair shorn in humility, he was ordained a presbyter and began to serve God strenuously, yet he did not repay what he had promised to the blessed Pontiff. In the fourth year, therefore, when power over him had, as I believe, again been given to the enemy, he once more fell into a recurring madness, and being bound in chains as before, he was brought back to the holy church; there, spending six days and more in vigils and prayers, and rendering what he had previously shamefully withheld, he returned home healed. But as his sins increased, being again often soaked with wine, he died in the same affliction.\n\nCHAPTER LIV.\n\nConcerning the blind girl of Lisieux.\n\nIf we were to pursue each and every deed that is done or has been done for the Confessor, we would heap up a great accumulation of marvels. A girl from Lisieux, already grown, had lost the light of her eyes; devoutly approaching the Saint's threshold, she prayed prostrate on the ground throughout the whole time of the festival. But on the third day after the holy festival, when her people urged her to return, she asked to be led to the Blessed One's tomb. And there, prostrating herself again and again, wiping her eyes with the pall that covers the holy tomb, and bidding farewell, she departed. And when she was already boarding the ship, she said: I give thanks to you, blessed Confessor, because, although I did not deserve to see your holy threshold, I have perceived it at least by touch. When therefore she had said these things with tears, while she wiped her eyes, she recovered her sight, and turning around she said: Perhaps this is the Blessed One's basilica?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":95,"ref":"p95","source":"Cui, qui propinqui erant, ita esse aiunt. Tunc illa: Non revertar, inquit, nisi gratias pro accepta sanitate referam patrono. Redeuntem autem, et in laudem Antistitis declamantem multi viderunt. Quae completa oratione gaudens discessi I.\n\nCAPUT LV.\n\nDe puerulo manum contractam habente.\n\nIn eadem vero festivitate alius de Senonico puer manum aridam detulit. Post quartam autem diem solemnitatis beatae, dum stans ad pedes oraret, spectante populo directi sunt digiti ejus; viditque omn conventus plebis magnalia Dei, qualiter inficiebatur manus a sanguine, ascendebatque gradatim per arentes venas, et ita erat manus bibula, ut putares spo igiam diu aridam lymphis injectam, sitienter haurire liquorem. Repletis ergo venis, roboratisque nervis, ac rubescente cute pallidam manum extulit sanatam.\n\nCAPUT LVI.\n\nDe muliere quæ contractis in palma dijitis venit.","english":"Those who were near her say that this is how it happened. Then she said, \"I will not return unless I give thanks to my patron for the health I have received.\" Many saw her as she returned, proclaiming the praises of the Bishop. When the prayer was finished, I departed rejoicing.\n\nCHAPTER LV.\n\nConcerning a little boy who had a withered hand.\n\nAt that same festival, another boy from Sens brought a withered hand. After the fourth day of the blessed solemnity, while he was standing at the feet [of the shrine] and praying, in the sight of the people his fingers were straightened; and the whole assembly of the people saw the mighty works of God, how the hand was infused with blood, and it rose gradually through the withered veins, and the hand was so moist that you would think a sponge long dried out had been plunged into water and was thirstily drawing in the liquid. So when the veins were filled and the sinews strengthened, and the skin growing red, he held out his pale hand healed.\n\nCHAPTER LVI.\n\nConcerning a woman who came with fingers contracted into her palm.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":96,"ref":"p96","source":"Pari quodammodo ordine Pictavensis mulier meruit obtinere medelam. Nam haec contractis in volam digitis, unguibusque defixis in itsis, ut ila dicam, ossibus, tota jam manu putrefacta, venit ad Sancti festivitatem devota, optabilem expetens medicinam. Igitur, spectatis ex more solemnibus, dicit suis: Integro quidem corde ad deposcendum Beati præsdium venimus, sed obsistentibus peccatis, non n:eruimus quod petebamus accipe e. Consummata ergo nunc oratione, reveramur ad patriam, fidentes de bonitate Præsulis, quod corpore imbecillo prosit animae fidelis oralio. Haec et bis similia aiens, et quasi Sancto valedicens, discessit. Vergente quoque in vesperam die, prope amnis Caris e ripam accepi I mansionem. Ad medium autem fere noctis expergefacta, gratias Deo refert, quod esset, quod viveret, quod vigeret, vel quod beati Pontificis tumulum attigisset: quae cum maximo fletu proferret, iterum obdormivit. Et ecce vir crine cycneo, indumento purpureo, crucem gestans manu, stans ante eani ait: Nunc sana eris in nomine Christi Rede uptors nOstri. Et apprehensa manu ejus, misit digitum suum inter digitos illius, qui clauserant palmam, et rumper movens, direxit eos. Dum haec in v su vide. ret evigilans, defluente adhuc sanguine, snnam elevavit manum in Dei laudibus. Diluculo autem regressa ad basilicam, et impleta gratiarum actione, laeta redivit.","english":"In a similar manner, a woman of Poitiers deserved to obtain healing. For she had her fingers contracted into the palm, and her nails fixed in the very bones, so to speak, and her whole hand was already putrefied; she came devoutly to the feast of the Saint, seeking the desired remedy. So, after the solemn rites had been celebrated in the customary manner, she said to her people: \"We have indeed come with an whole heart to implore the aid of the Blessed One, but with our sins standing in the way, we have not obtained what we sought. Receive therefore now our prayer, and let us return to our homeland, trusting in the goodness of the Bishop, that a faithful prayer may profit the weak body for the soul.\" Saying these and similar things, and as if bidding farewell to the Saint, she departed. And as the day was turning toward evening, I received lodging near the bank of the river Clain. But around the middle of the night she awoke and gave thanks to God that she was, that she lived, that she was strong, and that she had touched the tomb of the blessed Bishop; and when she had uttered these things with the greatest weeping, she fell asleep again. And behold, a man with snowy hair, in purple raiment, carrying a cross in his hand, standing before her, said: \"Now you shall be healed in the name of Christ our Redeemer.\" And taking her hand, he placed his finger between her fingers, which had closed her palm, and moving them, he straightened them. While she saw these things in her sleep, waking up with blood still flowing, she raised her sound hand in praise of God. At daybreak, however, she returned to the basilica, and having fulfilled her act of thanksgiving, she went back joyful.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":97,"ref":"p97","source":"CAPUT LVII.\n\nDe ea quæ dum in festivitate sancti Joannis operabatur, debilitata est.\n\nIn festivitate vero beati Joannis cum populus ad missarum solemnia conveniret, mulier quaedam accepto sarculo, agrum adiit, ut scilicet evulsa mali seminis zizania, messem sola purgaret; aec enim poterat esse vallata divino I solatio ob reverentiam dominici Praecursoris. Cumque operari coepisset, protinus manus ejus divino igne sunt apprehensæ. facies quoque ejas quasi emittens flammas, tota ve. sicis ac pusulis ebullivit. Urebatur misera non minus pudoris dolore, quam corporis, quando ea quae clanr gesserat, invita prodebat. Dehinc vociferando atque ejulando, beati Martini basilicam velociter expetivit; ante cujus sepulcrum in hoc tormento per qua ur mensium spatia pro*trata, restincto omni vapore, in integritatem corporis solidata est. Erat enin ancilla cujusdam civis Turonici, qui medietate pretii concessa, aliam requisivit.","english":"CHAPTER LVII.\n\nConcerning the woman who was weakened while she was working on the feast of Saint John.\n\nOn the feast of blessed John, when the people were gathering for the solemn rites of Mass, a certain woman took up a hoe and went to a field, so that, having uprooted the tares of the evil seed, she alone might cleanse the harvest; for she could not be fortified by divine consolation out of reverence for the Lord's Forerunner. And when she had begun to work, immediately her hands were seized by a divine fire. Her face also, as if emitting flames, and her whole body boiled over with blisters and pustules. The wretched woman burned no less with the pain of shame than of body, since, unwilling, she was betraying the things she had done in secret. Then, crying out and wailing, she quickly sought the basilica of blessed Martin; before his tomb, having lain prostrate in this torment for the space of a few months, with all the heat extinguished, she was made whole in the soundness of her body. For she was the maidservant of a certain citizen of Tours, who, when half the price had been granted, sought another.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":98,"ref":"p98","source":"CAPIT LVIII.\n\nDe caeco et contracto.\n\nPuer Parisiacus, cujus artis erat vestimenta componere, increscente melancholia, id est decocti sanguinis fece, quartanarius efficitur, atque effervescente humore, ita omne corpus ejus minutis pustulis coarctabatur, ut a quibusdam leprosus putaretur. Sed et per omnia membra dolores pessimos sustinebat, amborum oculorum luce muletatus. Igitur auditam beati Antistitis famam, et virtutes ubique vulgatas a, Turonicam expetivit civitatem; accedensque ad basilicam Sancti, per dies multos jcjunans et orans, recepto lumine, pristinae restituitur sospitati. Erat enim ingenuus genere. Audiens autem Leodastis b, qui tum Turonicum gerebat comitatum, quod talis esset artifex, calumniari coepit, dicens: Refuga es tu dominorum, nee tibi licebit ultra per diversa vagari. Et vinctum in domum suam custodiendum dirigit. Sed nec ibidem defuit virtus angelici Confessoris. Nam cum apprehensus fuisset, statim ab infirmitate qua caruerat coarctatur; et cum pessime ageret, videns comes nihil se in eum praevalere posse, relaxatum a vinculis liberum abscedere jubet. Ille vero ad basilicam regressus, sanatus est denuo.","english":"CHAPTER LVIII.\n\nConcerning the blind and the crippled.\n\nA boy of Paris, whose trade it was to make garments, as his melancholy grew—that is, from the dregs of corrupted blood—was made a quartan ague sufferer, and as the humor boiled up, his whole body was so contracted with tiny pustules that he was thought by some to be a leper. But he also endured the worst pains throughout all his limbs, and was deprived of the light of both his eyes. So, having heard the fame of the blessed Bishop and his virtues noised abroad everywhere, he sought the city of Tours; and coming to the basilica of the Saint, fasting and praying for many days, he received his sight and was restored to his former health. For he was freeborn by birth. But when Leodastis, who at that time held the countship of Tours, heard that he was such a craftsman, he began to bring a charge against him, saying: \"You are a runaway from your masters, and it shall not be permitted you to wander about any further.\" And he sent him bound to his own house to be guarded. But even there the power of the angelic Confessor was not absent. For when he had been seized, he was straightway afflicted with the infirmity from which he had been freed; and when he was faring very badly, the count, seeing that he could prevail nothing against him, ordered him, released from his bonds, to depart free. But he, returning to the basilica, was healed anew.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":99,"ref":"p99","source":"CAPUT LIX.\n\nDe alia muliere, quæ post ingenuitatem eat vendita. Simile est huic et illud, quod mulier post emeritam libertatem rursum a patroni filiis barbaris venundatur. Sed virtute Sancii, quo facilius defensaretur, contractis ad plenum debilitatur membris. Nam et poplitum nervi ita retorsi sunt, ut surae crura contingerent. Tunc relicta a dominis, quibus fuerat inique distracta, patrocinia beati expetit Confessoris. Ad cujus aedem non multo tempore commorata, libertati simul ac sospitati donatur.\n\n- CAPUT LX.\n\nDe oculorum et capitis mei dolore.\n\nEt quia prior libellus ab eo tempore iniliatus est quo Paulinus reliquit c, et sub quadraginta capitulis constabat impletus, destinavi hunc incoeptum sub sexaginta complere. Scilicet ut beatus Martinus 4, aut viduatus ab hoc mundo virginitatis custodivit integrum decus, martyrium quoque cel in occultis in... sidiis, vel in publicis injuriis triumphaliter adimplevit, cui etiam aderat corona trigesimi et sexagesimi, vel centesimi fructus in his centum virtutibus augeretur e. Spes autem mihi erat me non frustrari a voto, quod in octo annis Domino jubente complevi, ipso scilicet libro a virtute super me facta coepto, ad me iterum sum regressus f. Quod non sine providentia Divinitatis esse arbitror factum, ut ad eam finiretur, a quo legitur coeptus.","english":"CHAPTER LIX.\n\nConcerning another woman, who after obtaining her freedom was sold. Similar to this is that which happened when a woman, after she had earned her liberty, was sold again by the barbarian sons of her patron. But by the power of the saint, so that she might be more easily defended, she was weakened with her limbs contracted to the full. For the sinews of her knees were so twisted back that her calves touched her shins. Then, abandoned by the masters to whom she had been unjustly sold, she sought the patronage of the blessed Confessor. Having stayed no long time at his church, she was granted both liberty and health.\n\nCHAPTER LX.\n\nConcerning the pain of my eyes and head.\n\nAnd because the former little book was begun from the time when Paulinus left, and it was complete in forty chapters, I determined to complete this one begun under sixty. Namely, that the blessed Martin, either having been widowed from this world kept the whole glory of virginity, and also triumphantly fulfilled martyrdom, whether in secret ambushes or in public injuries, to whom also was present the crown of the thirtyfold and sixtyfold and hundredfold fruit, might be increased in these hundred virtues. But my hope was that I would not be frustrated from the vow which in eight years, with the Lord commanding, I fulfilled—that is, the book itself having been begun from the virtue done upon me, I returned again to myself. Which I think was done not without the providence of the Godhead, that it should be finished at that point at which it is read to have been begun.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":100,"ref":"p100","source":"In quo cum quinquaginta novem virtutes descripsissem, et sexagesimam adhuc attentius præstolarer, subito mihi sinistrum capitis tempus arctatur doloribus, et pulsantibus venis, defluentibusque lacrymis, tantus imminebat cruciatus, ut oculum vi comprimerem ne creparet. Quod dum per unam diem ac noctem graviter ferrem, mane adveniens ad basilicam Sancti, orationi prosternor. Qua expleta, doloris locum velo, quod ante beatum dependebat sepulcrum, attigi. Quo tacto, protinus et pulsus venarum, et lacrymarum fluxus stetit. Post triduum vero dextram capitis partem similis attigit dolor. Pulsabant venae, atque ubertim lacrymae defluebant. Iterum maneconsurgens, pari ut prius modo contacto velo, capite sanus abscessi. Transactis vero decem diebus, visum est milii minuere sanguinem: tertia autem die post sanguinis diminutionem, subiit mihi cogiJatio, et, ut credo, per insidiatorem injecta, quod haec quae pertuleram a sanguine evenissent, et si vena protinus fuisset incisa, confestim ista cessassent. Dum haec cogito, ac revolvo, amborum temporum venae prosiluere, renovatur dolor qui prius fuerat, et jam non unam partem capitis, sed totum arripuit caput R. Commotus ergo doloribus, ad basilicam propero, ac pro cogitatione prava deprecans veniam, pallaque, quae beatum operit sepulcrum, caput tetigi; mox, doiore sedato, sanus recessi de tumulo.","english":"In this book, when I had described fifty-nine miracles and was still eagerly awaiting the sixtieth, suddenly the left side of my head was gripped by pains, and with my veins throbbing and tears flowing, such great torment threatened me that I pressed my eye shut by force lest it burst. When I had borne this grievously for one day and night, coming in the morning to the saint's basilica, I prostrated myself in prayer. When this was finished, I touched the place of pain with the veil that hung before the blessed tomb. At that touch, immediately both the throbbing of my veins and the flow of tears stopped. But after three days, a similar pain seized the right side of my head. My veins throbbed, and tears flowed abundantly. Again rising in the morning, having touched the veil in the same way as before, I departed sound in head. But after ten days had passed, it seemed good to me to let blood; yet on the third day after the bloodletting, a thought came to me—and, as I believe, injected by the tempter—that these things I had suffered had come from my blood, and that if a vein had been cut at once, these things would have ceased immediately. While I think on these things and turn them over, the veins of both temples leaped up, the pain that had been there before was renewed, and now it seized not one part of my head but my whole head. Moved therefore by the pains, I hurry to the basilica, and begging pardon for my wicked thought, I touched my head with the pall that covers the blessed tomb; soon, with the pain calmed, I departed sound from the tomb.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":101,"ref":"p101","source":"Multa quidem sunt et alie quae vir beatus quotidie operatur, quae insequi longum est. Tamen si adhuc meremur videre miracula, placet ea alteri conjungi libello. Nam, ut diximus, hi duo libelli in hoc numero teneantur. Ego quoque pietati dominicae malimas refero gratias, quod mihi per suffragium Antistitis gloriosi concessum est, ut quod in initio tractavi, potuerim usque ad flnem perducere b; deprecans, ut quod saepe Confessor tribuit populis, mihi peccatori largius indulgeat, purgetque me ab erroribus A, quos saepe conspicit et intendit, restituatque mihi lumen veritatis, eruat me ab infidelitatis lapsu, mundet cor et mentem a lurida lepra luxurie, purget cogitationes a concupiscentiis pravis, atque omnem a me facinorum molem diluat, atque prosternat; ut cum in:judicio in sinistra parte fuero locatus, ille me de medio haedorum sacrosancta dextra dignetur abstrahere, reservatumque me tenens post tergum, sententiam Judicis praestoletur. Cumque eo ju dicante fuero flammis infernalibus deputatus, sacrosancto pallio, quo ille tegitur in gloria, me contectum excuset a poena, dicentibus Regi angelis, quod quondam de monacho resuscitato dixerunt: Iste est pro quo Martinus rogat b.","english":"Many indeed are the other things as well that the blessed man works daily, which it would be long to pursue. Yet if we still deserve to see miracles, it pleases me that they be joined to another little book. For, as we have said, let these two little books be held in this number. I also give the greatest thanks to the Lord's loving-kindness, because through the intercession of the glorious Bishop it has been granted to me that what I undertook at the beginning I have been able to bring through to the end; praying that what the Confessor has often bestowed on peoples, he may more abundantly grant to me, a sinner, and cleanse me from the errors which he often sees and observes, and restore to me the light of truth, snatch me from the fall of unbelief, cleanse my heart and mind from the foul leprosy of lust, purify my thoughts from depraved desires, and wash away and cast down from me every mass of crimes; so that when in judgment I shall have been placed on the left side, he may deign to draw me out from the midst of the goats with his sacrosanct right hand, and keeping me reserved behind his back, may await the Judge's sentence. And when, with him judging, I shall have been assigned to the infernal flames, may he, covered by the sacrosanct pallium with which he is clothed in glory, excuse me from punishment, with the angels saying to the King what they once said of the resuscitated monk: This is he for whom Martin prays.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":102,"ref":"p102","source":"Fiatque, ut quia non mereor illa claritate vestiri, vel ab irruentibus tartarorum ministris merear liberari: nec tantum mihi noxa praevaleat, ut separer ab ejus regno quem fideliter Bum confessus in saeculo.\n\nExplicit liber secundus.\n\nLIBER TERTIUS.\n\nPrologus.\n\nTertium, ordinante Christo, libellum de virtutibus beati Martini scribere incipientes, gratias agi, mus omnipotenti Deo, qui nobis talem medicum tribuere dignatus est, qui infirmitates nostras purgaret, vulnera dilueret, ac salubria medicamenta conferret. Nam si ad ejus beatum tumulum humilietur animus, et oratio sublimetur, si defluant lacrymae, et compunctio vera succedat; si ab imo corde emittantur suspiria, et pectora facinorosa tundantur; invenit ploratus lætitiam, culpa veniam, dolor pectoris pervenit ad medelam. Nam saepius tactus beati sepulcri proOuviis imperavit sistere, caecis videre, paralyticis surgere, et ipsam quoque pectoris amaritudinem longe discedere. Quod ego plerumque expertus indignum lUC judico, ut inter tantorum miraculorum moles etiam illa hic inseram, quae super me operari dignatus est. Sed iterum timeo ne noxialis appaream, si ea tanquam fraudulentus abscondam.","english":"And may it come about that, since I do not deserve to be clothed with that brightness, I may at least deserve to be freed from the ministers of the Tartars rushing upon me; nor let the harm prevail against me so greatly that I be separated from his kingdom, whom I faithfully confessed as God in the world.\n\nThe second book ends.\n\nTHE THIRD BOOK.\n\nPrologue.\n\nAs, with Christ ordaining, we begin to write the third little book concerning the virtues of the blessed Martin, we give thanks to almighty God, who deigned to grant us such a physician, who would cleanse our infirmities, wash away our wounds, and bring healing medicines. For if the soul is humbled at his blessed tomb, and prayer is raised on high, if tears flow down and true compunction follows; if sighs are sent forth from the depths of the heart, and sinful breasts are beaten; weeping finds joy, guilt finds pardon, and the heart's sorrow attains to healing. For very often the touch of the blessed tomb has commanded fevers to halt, the blind to see, the paralytic to rise, and has driven even the bitterness of the heart far away. Having myself often experienced this, I judge it unworthy that amid such great heaps of miracles I should also insert here those things which he deigned to work upon me. But again I fear lest I appear harmful if, as though deceitful, I hide them.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":103,"ref":"p103","source":"Testor enim Deum, et spem illam, quam in ejua virtute posui, credens me ab illius misericordia non frustrari: quia quotiescunque aut dolor capitis irruit, aut tempora pulsus impulit, aut aures auditus gravavit, aut oculorum aciem caligo suffudit, aut aliis membris dolor insedit, statim ut locum dolentem, vel tumulo vel velo pendente attigi, protinus sanitatem recepi, mirans tacitus in ipso tactu dolorem recessisse cum cursu.\n\nCAPUT PRIMUM\n\nDe dolore faucium mearum.\n\nQuid autem nuper pertulerim, primum inseram huic libello miraculum. Dum ad convivium residentes post jejunium ederemus, piscis infertur in ferculo: quem dominica cruce signatum dum edimus, una mihi exaristis ipsius piscis injuriosissime adhæsit in gutture. Quoe dolores commovens graves, incidedebat fauces acumine, et ipsam gulam longitudine obserabat: impediebat vocis sonitum, et neque ipsum salivae liquorem, qui saepe a palato defluit, transire sinebat. Tertia autem die cum neque tussiens, neque excreans eam valerem projicere, recurri ad nota praesidia. Accedo ad tumulum, provolvor in pavimento, profusisque cum gemitu lacrymis, auxiliutn deprecor Confessoris. Dehinc erectus, velo, quod dependebat, gulam, faucesque et reliquum capitis attigi. Nec mora, sanitatem recepi; et priusquam limina sancta egrederer, nullam fatigationem sensi. Quid tamen aculeus malus devenerit, ignoro.","english":"For I call God to witness, and that hope which I have placed in his power, believing that I am not disappointed by his mercy: because as often as either a pain of the head attacked me, or a throbbing beat at my temples, or hearing weighed down my ears, or a mist poured over the sharpness of my eyes, or pain settled in other limbs, as soon as I touched the painful place, either with the tomb or with the hanging veil, I straightway received healing, marveling in silence that in the very touch the pain had departed with its course.\n\nCHAPTER ONE\n\nConcerning the pain of my throat.\n\nBut what I recently endured, I will set down as the first miracle in this little book. While we sat at a banquet and were eating after a fast, a fish is brought in on a dish: while we were eating it signed with the Lord's cross, one bone of that same fish clung most injuriously in my throat. This, stirring up severe pains, cut into my throat with its point, and blocked the very gullet with its length: it impeded the sound of my voice, and did not allow even the liquid of saliva itself, which often flows down from the palate, to pass through. But on the third day, when I was unable to throw it out either by coughing or by clearing my throat, I had recourse to the well-known protections. I approach the tomb, I fall prostrate on the pavement, and with poured-out tears and groaning, I beg the aid of the Confessor. Then, raised up, I touched my gullet, throat, and the rest of my head with the veil that was hanging there. And without delay, I received healing; and before I left the holy threshold, I felt no distress. Yet what became of the wicked point, I do not know.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":104,"ref":"p104","source":"Non eum rejeci per vomitum, non discessisse sensi in alvum. Unum tantum scio, quod ita me in velocitate sensi sanatum, ut putarem quod injecta aliquis manu, illa quae injuriam faucibus intulerant abstulisset.\n\nCAPUT II.\n\nDe puella debili sanata.\n\nPuella vero annorum duodecim, omnibus membri. debilis, per sex annos tanquam mortua in domo parentum lectulo decubabat, non gressum faciens, non opus manuum implens, non lucem cernens, non sermonem eloQuens, non audieus elocutum. Ad Beati tumulum fundunt parentes pro filie preces, offerunt munera, et adhuc vota promittunt. Convenit autem populus ad solemnia. celebratur cum gaudio sacra festivitas. Tertia vero de festivitate die, vocat patrem puella, dicens: Sitio. Qui gaudens quod filiae vocem, quam nunquam audierat, meruisset audire, cucurrit velocius, et assumptum paululum aquae puellae detulit ad bibendum. Qua hausta, ait: Porrige mibi manum. Apprehensa ouoque pater ejus dextera, evavit eam. Que stans super pedes suM, elevatis j ad coelum manibus oculisque: 'Gratias, inquit, tibi ago, omnipotens Deus, qui respiciens humilitatem lucam, me per sanctum Antistitem tuum salvare dignatus ea. Et lie redintegratis membris, visum auditumque recepit, ac domum læta, regressa est.","english":"I did not reject it by vomiting, nor did I perceive that it passed away into the belly. One thing only I know, that I felt myself healed with such swiftness that I thought someone had put in his hand and taken away those things which had done injury to my throat.\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nConcerning the weak girl healed.\n\nBut a girl of twelve years, weak in all her limbs, for six years lay as if dead on a little bed in her parents' house, neither taking a step, nor performing the work of her hands, nor seeing the light, nor speaking a word, nor hearing one spoken. The parents pour out prayers for their daughter at the blessed one's tomb, offer gifts, and further promise vows. And the people gathered for the solemn rites; the sacred festival is celebrated with joy. But on the third day of the festival, the girl calls her father, saying: I thirst. He, rejoicing that he had been granted to hear his daughter's voice, which he had never heard, ran more swiftly, and taking up a little water, brought it to the girl to drink. When she had drunk it, she said: Give me your hand. And her father, taking her right hand, raised her up. And she, standing on her feet, with hands and eyes lifted up to heaven, said: I give thanks to you, almighty God, who, looking upon my lowliness, deigned to save me through your holy bishop. And in that hour, with her limbs restored, she received sight and hearing, and returned home joyful.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":105,"ref":"p105","source":"CAPUT III.\n\nBe homine in cujus manu fustis adhæsit.\n\nAnte duos autem annos quam haec agerentur, quidam non metuens, neque honorans diem sanctum dominicæ resurrectionis, accepta annona, ad molam vadit, impositoque tritico, molam manu vertere coopH. Expleto autem opere non poterat volam apcrire, sed cum gravi dolore fustem quem apprehenderat tenebat invitus. Posthaec videas se non taxari, inciso ab utraque parte fuste, ad Sancti basilicam vonit, factaque oratione, et vigiliis celebratis, laxatis digitis, manus ejus ad opus pristinum restituta est. Alio vero anno, in hac die sancta, operam propter quam prius increpitus a Deo fuerat,apprehendit, rursumque ei lignum in manu ejus adhæsit. tHe autem cum dolore plorans ad basilican. sancti Confesboris repetiit, sed non protinus meruit exaudiri. Post duos vero annos.ad eamdem festivitatem, qua puelJam sanatam retulimus, et iste liberatus est ab onere ligni.","english":"CHAPTER III.\n\nConcerning the man in whose hand a stick stuck fast.\n\nBut two years before these things were done, a certain man, neither fearing nor honoring the holy day of the Lord's resurrection, having received his grain, went to the mill, and having loaded the wheat, he began to turn the mill by hand. When the work was finished, however, he could not open his palm, but with severe pain he held fast, against his will, the stick he had grasped. After this, seeing that he was not to be relieved, he cut the stick away on both sides and came to the basilica of the Saint, and having made prayer and celebrated vigils, his fingers were loosened and his hand was restored to its former work. In another year, however, on this holy day, he took up the work for which he had previously been rebuked by God, and again the wood stuck fast in his hand. Weeping with pain, he returned to the basilica of the holy Confessor, but he did not immediately deserve to be heard. After two years, however, at the same festival at which we related that the girl was healed, this man also was freed from the burden of the wood.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":106,"ref":"p106","source":"CAPUT IV.\n\nDe contracto sanato.\n\nEx Lemovicino autem adveniens contractus, qui pec gressum facere poterat, nec lumen oculorum habebat, deportatus manibus devotorum ante sanctum sepulcrum deponitur; deprecatusque misericordiam beati Antistitis, directis membris debilibus, sanitati donatur.\n\nCAPUT V.\n\nDe cæco illuminato.\n\nQuidam caecus, qui longo tempore lumine caruerat oculorum, ad eamdem festivitatem venit. Et facta oratione, dum ante sanctum sepulcrum staret, subito apertis oculis, recepto lumine jucundatur.\n\nCAPUT VI.\n\nDe debili sanato.\n\nPuer autem incola civitatis Turonicae, duw valetudine nimia ac diuturna consumitur, omnibus membris debilitatur, et sine spe gressuum a febre relinquitur, cui tibiae, ceu funes, intortæ, separari non poterant. Post discessum vero febris, expetiit a parentibus, ut eum ad sanctam basilicam deportarent. Quem exhibitum deponentes ad pedes Sancti, orationem faciunt, ut ei virtus solita subveniret. Tertia vero die cum ille vel parentes ejus in oratione ac jejunio perdurarent, exorto misericordiæ lumine, distortis tibiis, a parentibus incolumis est reeeplUS.","english":"CHAPTER IV.\n\nConcerning the paralytic healed.\n\nBut a paralytic coming from the Limousin country, who could not walk a step, nor had the light of his eyes, was carried by the hands of the faithful and laid before the holy tomb; and having implored the mercy of the blessed Bishop, his weak limbs were made straight, and he was restored to health.\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nConcerning the blind man enlightened.\n\nA certain blind man, who for a long time had lacked the light of his eyes, came to that same festival. And prayer having been made, while he stood before the holy tomb, suddenly his eyes were opened, and rejoicing in the recovered light.\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nConcerning the weak man healed.\n\nBut a boy, an inhabitant of the city of Tours, while he was consumed by a very great and long-lasting illness, was weakened in all his limbs, and was left by the fever without hope of walking, whose shins, like ropes, were so twisted that they could not be separated. But after the departure of the fever, he begged his parents to carry him to the holy basilica. And when he had been brought forth, they laid him at the feet of the Saint and made prayer, that the accustomed power might come to his aid. But on the third day, while he and his parents persevered in prayer and fasting, the light of mercy having arisen, his twisted shins being [made straight], he was received back sound by his parents.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":107,"ref":"p107","source":"CAPUTVII.\n\nDe eo gui clavem aie Dominico facicbat.\n\nSic et alius, Senator nomine, de Craeatonno a Andegavensi vico, dum die Dominico cIavem faci, digiti ambarum manuum ejus contraxerunt, unguibus in palmam defixis. Sic qui ostium pandere voluit, manus reserare non poterat. Dehinc quatuor mensibus exactis, jam unguibus in carae defixis, computrescente palma, auxilia expetiit Con fessoris, et per quatuor dies orationi ac jejunio vaeaos, manus sanas elevans, incolumis est regressus, collaudans virtutem Antistitis, et ut nullus aggredcretur quod ipse praesumpserat praedicabat.\n\nCAPUT VlIl.\n\nDe mortuo suscitato.\n\nEo tempore quo talia apud urbem Turonicam gerebantur, legati de Hispaniis, id est Florentius et Exsuperius, ad Chilpericum regem veniebant b. Quos cum ad convivium ecclesiae recepissem, epulantibus nobis, eo quod se assererent esse catholicos, Floreotius, qui erat aetate senior, sollicite flagitat aliqua de beati Viri virtute cognoscere. At ego Deo gratias agens, interrogo Ii vel nomen ejus in illis regionibus audiretur, vel Vita illius legeretur ab aliquo. Hæc me interrogante, ait in illis locis magnifice honorari nomen ejus; sed et se peculiarem alumnum Antistitis narrat, dicens super se magnam ejus virtutem ostenlam fuiSle.","english":"CHAPTER VII.\n\nConcerning the man who made a key on the Lord's day.\n\nSo too another man, by name Senator, from the village of Craeatonnum in the territory of Angers, while he was making a key on the Lord's day, the fingers of both his hands contracted, with the nails driven into the palm. Thus he who wished to open a door could not unclose his hand. Then, after four months had passed, with the nails now fixed in the flesh and the palm rotting, he sought the aid of the Confessor, and having spent four days free for prayer and fasting, raising up his hands healed, he returned safe, praising the power of the Bishop, and he proclaimed that no one should attempt what he himself had presumed to do.\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nConcerning a dead man raised.\n\nAt the time when such things were being done at the city of Tours, envoys from Spain, that is Florentius and Exsuperius, were coming to King Chilperic. When I had received them at a banquet of the church, as we were feasting, because they asserted that they were catholics, Florentius, who was the elder in age, earnestly begged to learn something of the power of the blessed man. But I, giving thanks to God, asked whether his name was heard in those regions, or whether his Life was read by anyone. While I was asking this, he said that the name of the Bishop was greatly honored in those places; and he also told me that he was a particular foster-son of the Bishop, saying that great power of his had been shown upon himself.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":108,"ref":"p108","source":"Avus, inquit, meus ante multorum curricula annorum basilicam Construxit in honore beati Martini antistitis: perfectaque, ac elegant opere exornata, Turonis clericos religiosos destinavit, expetens Pontificis reliquias, ut scilicet locum, quem in ejus nomine ædificaveraL, ejus reliquiis consecrarete Quod cum fecisset, per singulos dies veniebat, et prostratus solo'cum cooJuge, sancti Pontificis auulium implorabat. Post multum vero tempus infans his nascitur. Cum autem trium mensium esset a fehre pulsatus, in tantum exinanitur, ut neque papillam sugere, neque ullum alimentum valeret accipere. Interea perdurante morbo, cibo abnegato, palpitante tantum spiritu, solus transitus præstolabatur. Nec mora, ipse quoque exhalatur spiritus. Tum mater moesta, vel avia, de unice ac prim08enitæ sobolis morte apprehensum mter brachia ante altare beaH Martini jam exanime corpusculum spe non incerta deposuerunt: et tanquam si Sanctum visibilibus cernerent oculis, anus alloquitur, dicens: Spes nobis erat maxima, beatissime Confessor, tua huc pignora deportasse, per qua morbi depellerentur, febres exstinguerentur, fugarentur caecitatis tenebrae, et aliæ quoque infirmitates eluuudarentur, pro eo quod de te legantur plurima, quae vel vivens. feceris, vel post transitum operaris.","english":"My grandfather, he said, many years ago built a basilica in honor of the blessed bishop Martin, and when it was completed and adorned with elegant workmanship, he sent devout clerics to Tours, seeking the pontiff's relics, so that he might consecrate with his relics the place he had built in his name. When he had done this, he came every day and, prostrate on the ground with his wife, implored the aid of the holy pontiff. After a long time, however, a child was born to them. But when the child was three months old, he was stricken with fever and was so drained that he could neither suck the breast nor take any nourishment. Meanwhile, as the illness persisted and food was refused, with only his breath fluttering, nothing remained but to await his passing. And without delay, his spirit too was breathed out. Then the grieving mother, or rather grandmother, taking up in her arms the little body of her only and firstborn child, now lifeless, laid it before the altar of blessed Martin in no uncertain hope; and as if she beheld the saint with her visible eyes, the old woman addressed him, saying: Our greatest hope, most blessed confessor, was to bring your pledges here, by which diseases might be driven off, fevers extinguished, the darkness of blindness put to flight, and other infirmities as well washed away, because many things are read of you, which you either did while alive or accomplish after your passing.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":109,"ref":"p109","source":"Nam audivimus te oratione mortuos suscitasse, lepram osculo depulisse, energumenos curasse verbo, venenam digito compressisse, et alia multa fecisse: bic apparebit virtus tua, si et nunc juxta fidem nostratu hunc resuscitaveris parvulum. Quod si non feceri., non laic ultra colla curvabimus, luminaria accendemus, aut alicujus bonoris gratiam elhibebinus. Et haeo diceM, relicto. ante altare infantule, ipsa, et qui cum ea erant a, abierunt. Mane autem facto venientes, inveneruit eum ad altare conversum, et dum admirarentur, suscepit eum mater in ulnis, et cognoscens eum resumpsisse flatum, appli cat ad papilłam, qui protinus, hausto lacte, confortatus est. Tunc mater cum patre et omni domo, ele vata in cœlum voce, benedixerunt Deum, dicentes: Nunc cognovimus quia maguus Deus es, et facie mirabilia solus, qui nubis parvulum Confessoris tui oratione restituisti. Loco autem illi majorem deinceps quam prius fecerant, revereotiam elhibebant. Haec ab ipsius Florentii ore ita gesta cognovi.","english":"For we have heard that you have raised the dead by your prayer, driven out leprosy with a kiss, cured the possessed by a word, crushed poison with your finger, and done many other things. Here your power will be made manifest, if even now, in accordance with our faith, you raise this little child. But if you do not do so, we shall no longer bow our necks, light lamps, or show the honor of any reverence. And having said this, they left the infant before the altar, and she herself and those who were with her departed. When morning came, they returned and found him turned toward the altar, and while they were marveling, his mother took him in her arms, and recognizing that he had recovered his breath, she put him to the breast; and he, having at once drunk the milk, was strengthened. Then the mother, with the father and the whole household, lifting up their voice to heaven, blessed God, saying: Now we know that you are a great God, and that you alone do wondrous things, who by the prayer of your confessor have restored this little child. And thereafter they showed greater reverence to that place than they had before. I learned that these things were done thus from the mouth of Florentius himself.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":110,"ref":"p110","source":"CAPUT IX.\n\nDe eo qui pedem debilem habuit.\n\nClericus erat ab urbe Pictava in agro illius regionis, qui ad sanctam basilicam pertinebat, unius usu pedis debilis, quem, ut ipse asserebat, per incursum dæmoniimeridiani (Vid. infra, lib. IV, c. 36) perdiderat, Qui inciso fuste ad mensuram geniculi, et pelle superposita ad ipsum geniculum, extenso retrorsum vestigio, gressum, quem pede nitebatur agere, fuste adminiculante perficiebat. Ad antedictam basilicam novem post annos advenit, fusaque ora. tione per triduum, Mite tertium festivitatis diem poplite directo surrexit,. Adveniente antem ad Sancti solemnia populo, qualiler per virtutem ejus sanatu8 etedocuit.\n\nCAPUT X.\n\nlie tibia' matris meæ.\n\nMatri veromeae hoc ordine virtus Sancti subvenit. Tempore quo transactis parturitionis doloribus me edidit, dolorem in. uno tibiae musculo incurrit. Erat autem subitaneus, tanquam si clavus affigens, atque ita fictam gravissimam dabat, ut plerumque eclipsim generaret, nec erat quod eum mitigare posset, nisi cum diutissime contra ignem tentus a vapore foci obstupesceret: sed et si unguentum aliquod parumper fuisset infusum, quiescebat. Quid plura? Postordinationem meam advenit Turonis vel ad occursum Antistitis sancti, vel causa desiderii mei.","english":"CHAPTER IX.\n\nConcerning the man who had a withered foot.\n\nThere was a cleric from the city of Poitiers, in the territory of that region, who belonged to the holy basilica, with one foot withered, which, as he himself asserted, he had lost through the attack of the noonday demon. Cutting a stick to the measure of his knee and placing leather over it at the knee itself, with his leg stretched out behind, he accomplished with the support of the stick the step he tried to take with his foot. He came to the aforesaid basilica after nine years, and having poured out prayer for three days, on the third day of the festival he rose with his knee straightened. But when the people came to the solemnities of the Saint, he showed them how he had been healed by his power.\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nThe shin of my mother.\n\nTo my mother, in this manner, the power of the Saint came to aid. At the time when, her labor pains completed, she brought me forth, a pain came upon one muscle of her shin. It was sudden, as if a nail were being driven in, and it caused such very severe pain that it often brought on fainting, nor was there anything that could soothe it, except when, held for a very long time against the fire, it grew numb from the vapor of the hearth; but even if some ointment had been poured on for a little while, it would quiet down. What more? After my ordination she came to Tours, either to meet the holy Bishop, or for the sake of her desire for me.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":111,"ref":"p111","source":"Cum hic igitur per duos aut tres menses commorata fuisset, et assidue beati Pontificis auxilium precaretur; tandem respiciente miseratione consueta, discesEit dolor a tiLia, qui per triginta quatuor annos feminam fatigaverat.\n\nCAPUT XI.\n\nDe mulieris manu sanata.\n\nSed et alia mulier de Andegavo territorio, digiti. in palma defixis, ut ad locum sanctum preces effudit, digitis directis, sanata manu discwit.\n\nCAPUT XII.\n\nDe puero a valeludine sanato.\n\nPuer familiaris noster correptus a febre graviter urebatur. Ardebant enim extrinsecus membra, intrinsecus vero sitis valida erat; et si potutu aliquem recipiebat, mox rejiciebat a stomacho, nihil tamen capiens cibi. Cumque in hoc labore quarto aut quinto die [Al., annoJ fatigaretur, petiit ut ei parumper exhiberent pulveris de sepulcro ad bibendum. Quo exhibito, vinoque diluto,ut hausit fideliter, recepta sanitate convaluit.","english":"When she had therefore stayed here for two or three months and was continually entreating the aid of the blessed Pontiff, at last, with the customary compassion looking upon her, the pain departed from her breast, which had afflicted the woman for thirty-four years.\n\nCHAPTER XI.\n\nConcerning the woman whose hand was healed.\n\nBut also another woman from the territory of Angers, with her fingers fixed in her palm, when she poured out prayers at the holy place, with her fingers straightened, her hand was healed and she departed.\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nConcerning the boy healed from illness.\n\nA boy of our household, seized by a fever, was gravely burning. For his limbs burned outwardly, while inwardly there was a severe thirst; and if he received anything to drink, he immediately threw it up from his stomach, yet taking no food at all. And when he was worn out by this suffering for the fourth or fifth day, he asked that they bring him a little of the dust from the tomb to drink. When it was brought and mixed with wine, as he drank it faithfully, he recovered his health and grew strong.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":112,"ref":"p112","source":"CAPUT XIII.\n\nDe T heod anæ pede sanato.\n\nTbeoda vero, Wiliacharii quondam presbyteri filia, dum ab humore pedum frequentius laboraret, unius pedis usum. qui in debilitatem redactus fuerat, perdidit. Post hæc ad beatam advenit basilicam, in qua dum crebras effunderet preces, amota debilitate, incolumitati doMatur.\n\nCAPUT XIV.\n\nDe homine inclinato.\n\nErat tunc temporis in villa [Ed., urbe], quae sub tuitione sanctae matris ecclesiae Labebatur, homo quidam, qui, tanquam effractis renibus, inclinatus ambulabat. Hic juxta illam Evangelicae seriei mulierem (Luc. XIII, i ł) deorsum proclinus nequaquam sursum poterat erigi, sed duobus in ascellis fustibus addiLis, incurvus agebat gressum. Ad festivitatem autem ad veniens, tertia die post acta solemnia erectus, ab omni incursione diabolica mundatus, sanus abscessit.\n\nCAPUT XV.\n\nDe Gundulfo debili.","english":"CHAPTER XIII.\n\nConcerning Theodana's foot healed.\n\nBut Theodana, daughter of the former presbyter Wiliacharius, while she suffered rather frequently from a discharge of the feet, lost the use of one foot, which had been reduced to weakness. After this she came to the blessed basilica, where, while she poured out frequent prayers, her weakness was removed and she was restored to health.\n\nCHAPTER XIV.\n\nConcerning the bent man.\n\nThere was at that time in a villa [Ed., city], which lay under the protection of the holy mother church, a certain man who walked bent over, as if his kidneys had been broken. Like that woman of the Gospel series (Luke 13:11), he was bent downward and could in no way be raised upright, but with two sticks added under his arms he made his way bowed down. But coming to the festival, on the third day after the solemnities had been celebrated, he was raised up, cleansed from every assault of the devil, and departed sound.\n\nCHAPTER XV.\n\nConcerning Gundulf the disabled.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":113,"ref":"p113","source":"Gundulfus vero quidam ipsius urbis civis, ab infantia sua cum GUnLhario, Clotarii. regis filio, habitavit. In cujus dum haberetur servitio, et, ordinante rege, ascenderet in arborem, ut matura decerperet poma, effracto ramo corruit; collisoque ad lapidem pede, debilitatus est. Postmutos vero anno. dum in hac debilitatepersisteret, et ascenso equite [id est., equo] velociter eum impelleret ad eundum, lapsante sreasu, praecipitatur, compressumque pedem alium, quI sanus erat, graviter laesit. Debinc portari se ad sanctam basilicam postulat, projectusque ad pavimentum, orationem fideliter fUndit. Nec morata est pietas f, quae semper tribulantibus subvenire cosuevit, sed protinus, ablato omni dolore, incolumis a pavimento surrexit. Igitur per triginta circiter annos, dc alio pede, sicut superius diximus, jugiter claudicabat. Tandem inspectis propriae conscientiae noxis, converti decrevit, scilicet, ut humiliatis capillis ipsi sancto deserviret Antistiti. Sed prius a rege præceptum elicuit, ut res suas omnes basilicae traderet vivens. Quo facto, capite tonsurato, impletoque bonæ deliberationis voto, pes ejus, qui effractis ossibus fuerat breviatus, est elongatus. Et qui ante a duobus pueris sustentatus ibat, nunc sine ullius hominis adminiculo, quo voluerit, absque aliquo debilitatis impedimento discurrit.","english":"But a certain Gundulf, a citizen of that city, lived from his infancy with Gunthar, son of King Clothar. While he was held in his service, and, by the king's command, climbed a tree to pick ripe apples, the branch broke and he fell; and his foot, dashed against a stone, was crippled. But after many years, while he persisted in this crippled state, and having mounted a horse [that is, a steed] was urging it swiftly to go, with his seat slipping he was thrown headlong, and crushed the other foot, which was sound, and gravely injured it. Then he asked to be carried to the holy basilica, and, cast down upon the pavement, he poured out his prayer faithfully. Nor did that loving-kindness delay, which is wont always to come to the aid of the afflicted, but at once, with all pain taken away, he rose sound from the pavement. So for about thirty years he had been continually lame in the other foot, as we said above. At length, having examined the sins of his own conscience, he resolved to be converted—namely, that with hair humbled he might serve that holy Bishop. But first he obtained a command from the king that he should hand over all his property to the basilica while still living. This done, with his head shorn and the vow of his good resolve fulfilled, his foot, which had been shortened by the broken bones, was lengthened. And he who before walked supported by two boys now runs wherever he wishes, without any man's support and without any hindrance of weakness.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":114,"ref":"p114","source":"CAPUT XVI.\n\nDe cæco illuminato,\n\nPost haec puerulus quidam ex Lemovicino caecus adveniens, lumen recepit oculorum hoc modo. Anno tertio nativitatis suae cum jam gressum incipiens ligere, erumpenteque lingua in verbis labra laxaret, dum matri alludit blande. dum oscula libat, dum collo ejus appenditur, dum-in ulnis defertur;, commota per immissionem diabolicam vi venti, pulvis a terra cum paleis elevatur, et super puerum ac matrem ejus cum magno turbine fertur: sed rustica mulier et incauta, nou tractat se filiumque Salvatoris a vexillo munire, ideoque praevalenlibus insidiis oculi adolescentis repleti pulvere obserantur. Qui diu vociferans, tandem mitigatus a matre permansit caecus. Adultus autem datus est mendicis, ut vel cum eisdem ambulans stipendii quiddam acciperet. Erant autem parentes ejus valde pauperes. Igitur duodecimo cæcitatis suae anno advenit Turonis ante diem solemnitatis, qua Deus Pater Verbum carni glutinans, mundo salutem invexit. Decursa autem festivitatis vigilia [Laud., die], dum recedentibus aliis hic ad pciles Sancti decubaret immobilis, tunc sensit quasi pupugisset aliquis oculos ejus a spiculo, et statim sanguis ab his erumpens cœpit defluere per genas ejus, aversaque sursum facic, vidit super se cereum elucere, et exclamans voce magna, ait: Gratias tibi ago, sancte Confessor Dei, quia virtute tua lumen recipere merui. admirabilis gratia!","english":"CHAPTER XVI.\n\nConcerning a blind boy enlightened.\n\nAfter this, a certain little boy from the region of Limoges, coming as a blind man, received the light of his eyes in this manner. In the third year of his birth, when he was already beginning to take steps and, his tongue bursting forth into words, he loosened his lips, while he played charmingly with his mother, while he gave kisses, while he hung upon her neck, while he was carried in her arms, a wind, stirred up by diabolical agency, raised dust from the earth together with chaff and bore it upon the boy and his mother with a great whirlwind. But the rustic and heedless woman did not take care to protect herself and her son with the standard of the Savior, and therefore, with the snares prevailing, the young child's eyes were filled with dust and closed up. He cried out for a long time, but at last, soothed by his mother, he remained blind. When he had grown up, he was given over to beggars, so that at least by walking with them he might receive some small allowance. For his parents were very poor. Therefore, in the twelfth year of his blindness, he came to Tours before the day of the solemnity on which God the Father, joining the Word to flesh, brought salvation into the world. When the vigil of the festival had passed, while the others were departing and he lay motionless at the steps of the Saint, then he felt as if someone had pricked his eyes with a point, and immediately blood, bursting forth from them, began to flow down through his cheeks, and turning his face upward, he saw a candle shining above him, and crying out with a loud voice, he said: I give thanks to you, holy Confessor of God, because by your power I have merited to receive light. O wondrous grace!","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":115,"ref":"p115","source":"o virtus immensa! multimodis enim affectibus dona tua spargis in populis. Nam qui stipem petierat, lumen recepit, et diu extera luce, virtutis tuae lumine vultus ornatur. si te multorum criminum tenebrae a nostris visibus non arcerent, nempe venires visibiliter, et infirmis voce Petri clamares: Aurum et argentum non habeo, sed quod babeo do vobis: in nomine Christi Jesu abite incolumes (Act., III ' 6).\n\nCAPUT XVII.\n\nDe Siggonis Referendarii aure.\n\nFuerat causa quaedam ut Remense eppidum peteremus; eumque ab Ægidio episcopo, qui tune Ec* clesiam regebat, benigne fuissemus excepti, illucescente in crastinum Dominica die, ad ecclesiam accessimus, residentesque in sacrario adventum præstolabamur Antistitis. Eo tempore sancti Martiui reliquias, licet temerario ordine, super me tamen habebam. Igitur Siggo referendarius quondam Sigiberti, ad occursum nostrum accedit, osculatumque juxta me sedere deposco. Sed. ille unam babens obturatam aurem, vix de alia poterat quæ loquebamur advertere. Verum ubi sufficienter colloquio usi sumus, ille in domum voCatur ecclesiae. Protinus igitur ut a me discessit, disrupta auris surdae claustra, et quasi magnum exinde ventum exire sentiens, auditum recepit: reversusque continuo mihi gratias agere coepit, dicens: Tertia jam dies erat, quod de hac aure auditum amiseram, sed cum tecum loquerer, sensi velociter reseratam.","english":"O immense power! For you scatter your gifts among the peoples through afflictions of many kinds. For he who had sought a coin received light, and a face long adorned by an outward light is now adorned by the light of your power. If the darkness of many sins did not keep you from our sight, surely you would come visibly and cry out to the weak with the voice of Peter: \"Silver and gold I have not, but what I have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ, go forth healed.\"\n\nCHAPTER XVII.\n\nConcerning the ear of Siggo the Referendary.\n\nIt had come about that we were making for the town of Reims; and when we had been kindly received by Bishop Aegidius, who then governed the Church, as the Lord's day dawned on the next morning we went to the church, and sitting in the sacristy we awaited the arrival of the bishop. At that time I had with me the relics of Saint Martin, though in a presumptuous manner, upon my person. So Siggo, formerly referendary of Sigibert, came to meet us, and when he had greeted me I asked him to sit beside me. But he, having one ear blocked, could scarcely perceive with the other what we were saying. Yet when we had conversed sufficiently, he was called into the house of the church. Straightway, therefore, when he had left me, the barriers of the deaf ear were broken open, and as though he felt a great wind issuing from it, he received his hearing; and returning at once he began to give thanks to me, saying: \"It was now the third day since I had lost the hearing of this ear, but while I was speaking with you, I felt it swiftly opened.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":116,"ref":"p116","source":"Tunc ego confessus [Al., confusus, ne mihi haec ascriberentur, aio: Noli, dulcissime Iili, mihi aliquid gratiarum referre, sed ei cujus tibi virtus auditum rastituit. Nam scias beati Martini mecum haberi pignora, cujus tibi potentia auditus gravitas est depulsa.\n\nCAPUT XVIII.\n\nDe infirmitate pecorum.\n\nQuodam vero tempore dum saeva lues taliter desaeviret in pecora, ut nec ad recuperandum genus putaretur aliquod remanere, quidam de nostris basilicam sanctam adiit, oleumque lychnorum, qui camerae dependebant, suscepit cum ipsis aquis in vasculo, deportatumque in domum, pecora quae adhuc hic morbus non attigerat * intinctoque digito in liquorc, per frontes et dorsa cruce dominica signat, ipsisque animalibus terræ dejectis, ac resupinatis, ex hoc unguine fide plenus infudit in ore. Mox dicto citius, clandestina peste propulsa, pecora liberata sunt.","english":"Then I confessed—or rather, to prevent these things from being ascribed to me, I said: Do not, most sweet son, give me any thanks, but give them to him whose power restored your hearing. For know that the pledges of blessed Martin are held with me, by whose power the heaviness of your hearing has been driven away.\n\nCHAPTER XVIII.\n\nConcerning the sickness of cattle.\n\nAt a certain time, when a savage plague was raging so among the cattle that no breed was thought to remain for recovery, one of our people went to the holy basilica and took oil from the lamps that hung from the ceiling, together with the water itself, in a vessel, and having carried it home, he signed with the sign of the Lord's cross the cattle that the disease had not yet touched, dipping his finger in the liquid and marking their foreheads and backs; and when those animals had been thrown down to the ground and laid on their backs, full of faith he poured some of this ointment into their mouths. Presently, quicker than speech, the hidden plague was driven off and the cattle were freed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":117,"ref":"p117","source":"CAPUT XIX.\n\nDe cæco illuminato.\n\nAbrincatinus quoque incola, cui per sex annos videndi usus fuerat denegatus, beati Confessoris ex. petiit salvari praesidio. Ad cujus basilicam accedens, multoque tempore jejuniis et orationibus vacans, auxilium beati implorabat Antistitis. Denique adveniente sacrosancta festivitate, populis missarum solemnia spectantibus, huic visus est redditus; rediitque in patriam videns, qui ad sanctam basilicam alio deducente'pervenerat. Ipse autem pro tantae pietatis gaudio vovit se ibidem tonsurari. Quod postca devotus rediens implevit.\n\nCAPUT XX.\n\nDe alio cæco illuminato.\n\nNam et quidam de transmarinis partibus veniens, dum operam exerceret in agro. subito orta super se violentia venti cnm pulvere, lumine caruit oculorum. Et qui diu cæcis via fuerat, ipse domum alio regente deducitur. In hac enim caecitate per trium annorum curriculum detinetur. Post haec basilicam beati confessoris expetiit, atque, patefactis luminibus lucem videre promeruit.","english":"CHAPTER XIX.\n\nConcerning a blind man who was given light.\n\nA certain inhabitant of Abrincatum also, to whom the use of sight had been denied for six years, sought to be saved by the protection of the blessed Confessor. Coming to his basilica and devoting himself for a long time to fasts and prayers, he implored the aid of the blessed Bishop. At last, when the sacrosanct festival arrived, while the people were watching the solemnities of the Mass, his sight was restored to him; and he returned to his homeland seeing, who had come to the holy basilica led by another. Moreover, in joy for such great loving-kindness, he vowed to be tonsured there. Returning later in devotion, he fulfilled it.\n\nCHAPTER XX.\n\nConcerning another blind man who was given light.\n\nFor indeed a certain man coming from overseas parts, while he was working in the field, suddenly a violent wind with dust arose over him, and he lost the light of his eyes. And he who had long been a way for the blind, himself is led home by another guiding him. For in this blindness he was held for the course of three years. After these things he sought the basilica of the blessed Confessor, and, his eyes having been opened, he merited to see the light.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":118,"ref":"p118","source":"CAPUT XXI.\n\nDe Juliano contracto.\n\nSed et haec fama, ut saepe dhimus. non solum ad propriam urbem, verum etiam in aliis urbibus, et pene in toto mundo vulgata perpatuit. Julianus quidam ab Hispaniis vemens, manus et pedes habens debiles, ad hunc medicum devol us ingressus est,; dicens: Credo enim indubitanter, a sanctissime Præsut, quod poteris mihi ea medelæ adjumenta praebere, quae caeteris in te sperantibus non es solitus denegare. In hac credulitate orationi assidue inststeDs; et de Domini miseratione non dubitans, directis pedibus manibusque, incolumis eat redditus.\n\nCAPUT XXII.\n\nDe muliere ad sancti lectulum illuminata.\n\nVerum quia in superioribus libellis saepius diximus et in loco illo de quo migravit ad caelos plerumque miracula celebrari, quid nuper gestum sit pandam. Mulier indigena urbis Turonicae visus claritate multata, cellulam Condatensem, in qua lectulus beati Antistitis babetur, expetiit, putans sibi præsidmm fore, si cancellos ipsius lectuli tetigisset. Lectulus autem non aliud dicitur, nisi quod in pavimentum illud substrato cinere, et apposito capiti lapide, Israel nostri temporis flexa cervice recubuit b. Ergo ad hoc oraculum mulier viro adminiculante deducitur, in quo per multos dies orationem compuncta fundebat. Tandem pietas ad miserandum sæpe profusa cam respiciens, visum mulieri amissum restituit.","english":"CHAPTER XXI.\n\nConcerning Julianus, a paralytic.\n\nBut this fame also, as we have often said, spread abroad not only in its own city, but also in other cities, and was made known throughout almost the whole world. A certain Julianus, coming from the Spains, having weak hands and feet, came to this physician and said: For I believe without doubt, most holy Bishop, that you can grant me those aids of healing which you are not accustomed to deny to others who hope in you. Persisting assiduously in prayer in this belief, and not doubting the Lord's mercy, with his feet and hands made straight, he was restored sound.\n\nCHAPTER XXII.\n\nConcerning a woman enlightened at the bed of the saint.\n\nBut since in the earlier books we have very often said that miracles are frequently celebrated in that place from which he departed to heaven, I shall make known what was recently done. A woman, a native of the city of Tours, deprived of the clarity of sight, sought out the cell of Condat, in which the bed of the blessed Bishop is kept, thinking it would be a help to her if she touched the railings of that bed. Now the bed is called nothing other than that on which our Israel of this present time reclined with bent neck, with ashes spread beneath upon that floor and a stone placed at his head. Therefore the woman is led by her husband's assistance to this place of prayer, where for many days, compunct, she poured out her prayer. At length the loving-kindness, often poured out for pitying, looking upon her, restored to the woman the sight she had lost.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":119,"ref":"p119","source":"Tantaque deinceps feminam fides accendit, ut usque ad diem sui obitus nunouam a loco illo discederet.\n\nCAPUT XXIII.\n\nDe muto cui fratre, abstulerant facultalem.\n\nIncola autem Andegavensis urbis, turbatis membris morbo, caput convertit ad lectulum: dehinc per; singulos dies invalescente febre, cunctis artubus destitutus, auditu et locutione pariter privatur. Post paucos vero dies cum de febre convaluisset, et sine voce maneret, ablata sibi a fratribus facultatis parte, de domo paterna projicitur, dicentibus fratribus: Hic amens effectus ese. Non patiatur Deus, quod aut facultati nostrae inhæreat, aut partem haereditatis ac-* quirat. Erant autem ingenui et possessionem propriam incolentes: sed nihil e cogitantes de his quae Dei erant, ejecerunt mutum et surdum, quem potius fovere debuerant. He vero quauquam sine bis usibus esset, sensum tamen in corde retinebat. Porro autem apprehensis manu tabulis, et inter se collisis, vocem quaerentis imitabatur. Cum hoc enim artificio ad supradictum vicum advenit, ibique aliis stipem flagitantibus adjungitur. Sextus igitur jam effluxerat annus, quod pauper iste a divitiis sanctae celfulæ vescebatur. Factum est autem ut in una Dominicarum nocte, dum in domo hospitis sui decumberer, subito locus ille immenso repleretur lumine, et ecce hic pavore perterritus solo prosternitur.","english":"And so great a faith thereafter kindled the woman that even to the day of her death she never departed from that place.\n\nCHAPTER XXIII.\n\nConcerning the mute man whose brothers had taken away his property.\n\nBut a certain inhabitant of the city of Angers, his limbs disordered by disease, turned his head to his little bed; then, as the fever grew stronger day by day, deprived of all his limbs, he was robbed alike of hearing and speech. After a few days, however, when he had recovered from the fever and remained without voice, a portion of his property having been taken from him by his brothers, he was cast out of his father's house, his brothers saying: This man has been made mad. Let not God permit that he should either cling to our property or acquire a share of the inheritance. Now they were freeborn and dwellers on their own estate; but thinking nothing of the things that were God's, they cast out the mute and deaf man, whom they ought rather to have cherished. Yet he, although he was without these senses, nevertheless kept understanding in his heart. Moreover, taking up tablets in his hand and striking them together, he imitated the voice of one asking. For with this device he came to the aforementioned village, and there joined himself to others begging for alms. So the sixth year had now passed since this poor man was fed from the riches of the holy little cell. It came to pass, moreover, that on a certain night of the Lord's day, while he lay in the house of his host, that place was suddenly filled with an immense light, and behold, he, terrified with fear, was laid prostrate on the ground.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":120,"ref":"p120","source":"Et statim visus est ei vir quidam sacerdotali habitu comptos, qui tangens eum, et crucem Christi fronti ejus imponens, ait: Dominus te sanum fecit. Surge, et propera ad ecclesiam, et age gratias Deo tuo. Ipse autem elevata cum gratiarum actione voce, clamoribus viciniam complet. Illico concurrunt omnes ad spectaculum, et mirantur loquentem, quem pridie viderant mutum. interea signum movetur horis uiatutinus: aggregatur et poPulus, vigiliisque celebratis, virtus Sancti clarificata perpatuit. His diebus duo energumeni in hoc loco, ejecto daemone, sunt mundati.\n\nCAPUT XXIV.\n\nDe oleo crescente.\n\nSed revertamur ad Aredium nostrum, imo etiam peculiarem, ut ita dicam, beati Confessoris alumnum, cui saepius de suis pignoribus cernere miracula praestat. Hic ad festivitatem SancH cam illa qua solitus est, benignitate, humilitate et charitate pervenit. Regrediens vero ampullam parvulam de oleo sancti sepulcri completam secum detulit, dicens: Forsitan in6rmus aliquis in via adest, qui a beati Martini aede benedictionem, corde compunctus, accipere desidereL Deniquc in quodam loco devota mulier accessit ad eum, exhibens ampullam aliam. cum oleo, dicens: Rogo te, serve Christi, ut tua hoc oleum, benedictione sanctifices. At ille, no vanitati subjectus videretur, ait: Parva est virtus mea; sed, si placet, oleum de sepulcro beati Martini habeo, ex quo hoc oleum perfundatur.","english":"And immediately there appeared to him a man adorned in priestly garb, who, touching him and imprinting the cross of Christ on his forehead, said: The Lord has healed you. Rise, and hurry to the church, and give thanks to your God. But he, lifting up his voice with thanksgiving, filled the neighborhood with his shouts. At once all ran together to the spectacle, and marveled at him speaking whom the day before they had seen mute. Meanwhile, when the signal was rung at the customary hours, the people also gathered, and after the vigils had been celebrated, the power of the Saint was made manifest and glorified. In those days two possessed men in this place, the demon having been cast out, were cleansed.\n\nCHAPTER XXIV.\n\nConcerning the oil that increased.\n\nBut let us return to our Aredius, or rather even the specially beloved, so to speak, foster-son of the blessed Confessor, to whom he more often grants to behold miracles concerning his pledges. He came to the festival of the Saint with that kindness, humility, and charity with which he was accustomed. But returning, he brought with him a small flask filled with oil from the holy sepulcher, saying: Perhaps there is some sick person on the way who, pricked in heart, desires to receive a blessing from the church of blessed Martin. Then in a certain place a devout woman came to him, presenting another flask with oil, saying: I beg you, servant of Christ, that you sanctify this oil with your blessing. But he, lest he seem subject to vanity, said: My power is small; but, if it pleases you, I have oil from the sepulcher of blessed Martin, with which let this oil be poured over.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":121,"ref":"p121","source":"Tu vPro, si credis ejus virtutem magnam, ex hoc salutem hauries. At illa gaudens, petiit expleri quae presbyter loquebatur. Vas etenim illud medium erat. Cumque de hoc liquore, qai a basilica Sancti assumptus fuerat, perfunderetur, protinus ebulliens oleum ampullam usque ad summitatem implevit. Quod matrona cernens, admirans virtutem Confessoris beati, domum regressa est gau. dens.\n\nCAPUT XXV.\n\nDe digitis cujusdam mulieris directis.\n\nAlia vero mulier, cujus digiti in ipsam palmam contracti defixi erant, basilicam beati Martini antistitis expetiit. Paucis quoque interpositis diebus orationem fundens, et Sancti auxilium implorans, directis digitis, manum recepit incolumem.\n\nCAPUT XXVI.\n\nDe muliere contracta.\n\nAnte hos annos puella in infirmitatem pessimam ruens, membris omnibus debilitata contrahitur. Haec auditis miraculis quae Antistes gloriosus io singulis operabatur, nomen ejus invocabat devote. Post dies autem paucos rogat se ad ejus basilicam deportari, in cojue atrio diebus multis jacens, fusa saepius oratione cum lacrymis, a virtute Pontificis visitatur; sicque 8ubvenieote divina misericordia, sanata discessit.","english":"But you, if you believe his great power, will draw healing from this. And she, rejoicing, asked that what the presbyter said be fulfilled. For that vessel was half full. And when she was drenched with this liquid, which had been taken from the basilica of the Saint, the oil at once bubbling up filled the flask to the very top. Seeing this, the matron, marveling at the power of the blessed Confessor, returned home rejoicing.\n\nCHAPTER XXV.\n\nConcerning the straightened fingers of a certain woman.\n\nBut another woman, whose fingers were contracted and fixed into her own palm, sought the basilica of the blessed Martin, the bishop. And after a few days had passed, pouring out prayer and imploring the aid of the Saint, with her fingers straightened, she received her hand whole.\n\nCHAPTER XXVI.\n\nConcerning a paralyzed woman.\n\nBefore these years, a girl, falling into a most grievous infirmity, was contracted, weakened in all her limbs. She, having heard of the miracles which the glorious Bishop was working individually, devoutly invoked his name. But after a few days she asked to be carried to his basilica, and lying in its atrium for many days, having often poured out prayer with tears, she was visited by the power of the Pontiff; and so, with divine mercy assisting, she departed healed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":122,"ref":"p122","source":"CAPUT XXVII.\n\nDe puero eontracto.\n\nPuer vero ex Andegavo territorio, dum in domo parentum resideret, per immissionem, ut ipse asserebat, artis diabolicae, manuum pedumque perdidit usum, ita ut contractis intrinsecus digitis, ungulae in palmam deftgereDtur, nexusque [AL, nervique] poplitum arefacti calcaneos ad crura diverterent: sicque per sex annos a parentibus male bajulatus, ad templum sancti Antistitis deportatur. Sed in oratione perdurans, restitutis membris, uxta nominis sui proprietatem quasi novus effloruit Floridus.\n\nCAPUT XXVIII.\n\nDe cæco illuminalo.\n\nCeriens ex nativitate servus. ipsius sancte basilicæ, per incursum insidiatoris lumine multatus, in hospitiolo proprio, nibil ibilaborare potens, residebat ægrotus. Tribus fere annis bane sustinuit caeeUatem, aedem beati sacerdotis expetiit; ibique deprecatus consuetam misericordiam, illuminatus rediit ad propria.","english":"CHAPTER XXVII.\n\nConcerning the crippled boy.\n\nBut a boy from the territory of Angers, while he was staying in his parents' house, through the working, as he himself asserted, of diabolical art, lost the use of his hands and feet, so that with his fingers contracted inward, his nails dug into his palm, and the sinews of his knees, having withered, turned his heels back toward his shins; and so for six years, badly carried about by his parents, he was brought to the church of the holy Bishop. But persevering in prayer, with his limbs restored, in accordance with the meaning of his own name, he blossomed forth like a new Floridus.\n\nCHAPTER XXVIII.\n\nConcerning the blind man enlightened.\n\nA certain servant of the same holy basilica, blind from birth, having been deprived of sight through the assault of the deceiver, was living sick in his own little lodging, able to do no work there. For nearly three years he endured this blindness; he sought the house of the blessed priest, and there, having prayed, he was enlightened by the accustomed mercy and returned to his own home.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":123,"ref":"p123","source":"CAPUT XXIX.\n\nDe homine, cui fustis in manu adhæsit.\n\nEx Turonico vero territorio servus cujusdam, dum aie Dominico sepem componeret, manus ejus ad lignum ipsum haerere coeperunt. At ille velociter extracta dextera, dnm factum admiratur attonitus, manus ipsa cum dolore magno contrahitur, defixae Mnt quoque ungulæ in palmam: contractisque totis digitis dexterae, ad diversorium regreditur cum moerore. Post quatuor vero annos ad basilicam Sancti advenit, orationeque facta sanatns est, praedicans populis ne factum ejus quis imitaretur, ne tanti diei solemnia avarus agricola macularet, ne resurrectionis sacrae ac redemptionis nostrae * caeleste mysterium humanitas infirma, terrena exercens opera, dissolveret.\n\nCAPUT XXX.\n\nDe puero, cai stomachus infirmabatur:\n\nPuerulus quidam ex Albigensi, tabesceute diversis morbis Stomacho, cibum potumque exhorrebat; ipsum quoque quod accipere videbatur eum gravi rejiciebat amaritudine. CuMque per multos dies in hoclabore [Ed., languore] cruciaretur, fide plenus desiderium habuit veniendi ad basilicam beati Confessoris. In qua per triduum jejunans et orans, die quarta accipiendi cibi desiderium capit, vinumque ore delibans confortatus est: dehinc gratias agens, sanus discessit.","english":"CHAPTER XXIX.\n\nConcerning the man whose hand stuck to a stick.\n\nBut from the territory of Tours, a certain man's slave, while he was building a fence on the Lord's day, his hands began to stick to the wood itself. And he, quickly pulling out his right hand, marveled astonished at what had been done, and his hand was contracted with great pain, and his nails were driven into his palm; and with all the fingers of his right hand contracted, he returned to his lodging in sorrow. But after four years he came to the basilica of the Saint, and after prayer was made he was healed, preaching to the people that no one should imitate what he had done, lest a greedy farmer defile the solemnity of so great a day, lest weak humanity, performing earthly works, dissolve the heavenly mystery of the sacred resurrection and of our redemption.\n\nCHAPTER XXX.\n\nConcerning the boy whose stomach was infirm.\n\nA certain little boy from the territory of Albi, his stomach wasting away with various diseases, loathed food and drink; and what he seemed to take he would reject with a grievous bitterness. And when he had been tormented in this suffering for many days, full of faith he had the desire to come to the basilica of the blessed Confessor. In which, fasting and praying for three days, on the fourth day he conceived a desire to take food, and tasting wine with his mouth he was strengthened; thereafter giving thanks, he departed healed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":124,"ref":"p124","source":"CAPUT XXXI.\n\nDe dextera mulieri. arida.\n\nMulier quædam, et ipsa, ut aiunt, ex Andegavo veniens, quae omnibus quidem membris arida erat, sed praecipue dexteram cum digitis aridiorem caeteris artubus deferebat, ad sepulcrum Sancti prosternitur. Exinde egressa, per paucum tempus in atrio cotnmorata est. Succurrente vero interventu Antistitis gloriosi, vena sanguinem, cutis ruborem, corpus reliquum fortitudinem recipiens, solidatum est. Cui haec fuit causa ut ista perferret, quia die sabbati post solis occasom, qui nocti Dominicae adjacebat, panem voluit conformare b.\n\nCAPUT XXXII.\n\nDe muliere cujus manus in se adhæserunt.\n\nSimile huic alia mulier fecit, cujus manus introrsum contractae et ad se invicem conjunctae adhæserunt. Cumque doloribus maximis vexaretur, viam ingreditur, dicens: Si ad basilicam sancti Martini abiero, protinus haec abscedet infirmitas. Confido enim quod et mihi subveniet, qai saepe talia perferentibus est misertus. Haec cum ita aieret, et incœptuw, ut poterat, carperet iter, manus ejus illico separatae sunt non tamen directis digitis. At vero ubi ad locum sanctum accessit, et orationem fudit, protinus ablato omni dolore, solidatis digitis, manus liberas cum gratiarum retulit actione.","english":"CHAPTER XXXI.\n\nConcerning the withered right hand of a woman.\n\nA certain woman, who also, as they say, came from Angers, was withered in all her limbs indeed, but especially she bore her right hand with its fingers more withered than the rest of her limbs, and she cast herself down at the tomb of the Saint. Departing from there, she stayed for a short time in the atrium. But with the intervention of the glorious Bishop coming to her aid, the vein received blood, the skin its color, and the rest of the body its strength, and she was made whole. And this was the cause that she suffered these things, because on the day of the Sabbath after sunset, which adjoined the night of the Lord's day, she wished to knead bread.\n\nCHAPTER XXXII.\n\nConcerning the woman whose hands stuck to themselves.\n\nAnother woman did a similar thing, whose hands, contracted inward and joined to each other, stuck together. And when she was vexed with the greatest pains, she set out on the way, saying: \"If I go to the basilica of Saint Martin, this infirmity will straightway depart. For I trust that he will also succor me, who has often had mercy on those suffering such things.\" When she spoke thus and, as she was able, took up the journey she had begun, her hands were immediately separated, though not yet with straight fingers. But when she came to the holy place and poured out her prayer, straightway all pain being taken away and her fingers made firm, she returned her hands free, with thanksgiving.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":125,"ref":"p125","source":"CAPUT XXXIII.\n\nDe morbo caballorum.\n\nIn Burdegalensi autem regione hoc anno gravis caballorum exstitit morbus. Apud villam [Ed., urbem] vero Marciacensem, quae in hoe termino continetur,. subdita ditionibus beati Martini, oratorium est ipsius et nomine et virtutibus consecratum. Denique advenieote Mpradicta clade, accedebant ad oratorium, vota facientes pro eqais, scilicet, si evaderent, ex ipsis decimal loco conferrent. Cumque his haec causa eommodum exhiberet, addiderant ut de clave ferrea, quae ostium oratorii recludebat, characteres caballis imponerent. Quo facto, ita virtus Sancti praevaluit, ut et sanarentur qui ægrotaverant, et qui non incurrerant, nihil ultra perferrent.\n\nCAPUT XXXIV.\n\nDe lue quæ cam vesicis fuit.\n\nSuperiore quoque anno gravissime populus Turonorum a lue valetudinaria vastabatur. Erat enim talis languor, ut apprehensus homo a febre valida, totus vesicis ac minutis pustulis scateret. Erant autem vesicae albæ cum duritia, nullam habentes InollUicna, nisi tantum dolorem nimium inferentes. Jam si data maturitate crepitantes ccepissent defluere, tunc adhaerentibus corpori vestimentis, dolor validius augebatur: in qua ægritudino nihil medicorum poterat ars valere, nisi eum dominicum adfuisset aUliliuDJ. Multi enim de basilica sancta benedictionem petentes, opem merebantur.","english":"CHAPTER XXXIII.\n\nConcerning the disease of horses.\n\nIn the region of Bordeaux, moreover, in this year there arose a severe disease of horses. At the estate—or rather town—of Marciac, which is contained within this territory and subject to the dominion of the blessed Martin, there is an oratory consecrated both by his name and by his powers. And so, when the aforesaid plague came, they came to the oratory, making vows on behalf of their horses—namely, that if they escaped, they would contribute a tenth from them to the place. And when this cause brought them benefit, they added that they would impose characters from the iron key which closed the door of the oratory upon the horses. This done, the power of the saint prevailed so greatly that both those who had fallen sick were healed, and those who had not incurred it suffered nothing further.\n\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\n\nConcerning the plague which was with blisters.\n\nIn the previous year also the people of Tours were most grievously laid waste by a sickly plague. For such was the ailment that a man seized by a strong fever broke out all over with blisters and tiny pustules. The blisters were white with a hardness, having no softness, but only inflicting excessive pain. Moreover, if, having reached maturity, they began to burst and discharge, then, with the clothing clinging to the body, the pain was increased more violently; in which sickness the art of the physicians could avail nothing, unless the Lord's help were present. For many, seeking a blessing from the holy basilica, obtained relief.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":126,"ref":"p126","source":"Sea quid de plurimis memorare necesse est, cnm id oeruerint caeteri, quod unam vidnnus meruisse Uxor ergo Eborini comitis, cum ab hac lue detineretur, ita his operta vesicis est, ut neque manus, neque plantae, ueque ulla pars corporis ejus remaneret vacua, sed et ipsi quoque oculi ab bis continebantur obtecti. Cumque jam in discrimine mortis haberetur, sancti sepulcri benedictionem expetiit. Tunc transmissum est ei de aqua, qua beati tumulus est in Pascha Domini ablutus (Vid. supra, lib. II, c. 5i). Denique delibutis ex ea vulneribus, ipsa exinde potum sumpsit: mox igitur restincta febre, sine dolore decorrentibus vesicis, sanata est.\n\nCAPUT XXXV.\n\nDe duobus paralyticis, et uno cæco sanato.\n\nSed quoniam multae virtutes sunt, quas orbis totus experitur, de quibus ad nos nec minima, ut opinor, pars auingit, vel illa quae vicinitas experitur indicemus. Invitatus itaque Badegisilus u Cenomanorum episcopus, ad quemdam locum dioecesis suae venit, ad basilicam beati Viri et nomine et reliquiis consecrandam. Celebrata solemnia b, invocantes saneti Martini nomen, duo paralytici gressum, caecusque unus visum recepit.","english":"But why is it necessary to recall these things concerning very many, when others have observed that which we have seen one woman deserve? The wife, then, of Count Eborin, when she was held by this plague, was so covered with these blisters that neither her hands, nor her feet, nor any part of her body remained free of them, but even her very eyes were covered and obscured by them. And when she was already in danger of death, she sought the blessing of the holy sepulcher. Then there was sent to her some of the water with which the blessed one's tomb is washed on the Lord's Passover. At last, when her wounds had been anointed with it, she herself then drank of it; and immediately, with the fever quenched and the blisters falling away without pain, she was healed.\n\nCHAPTER XXXV.\n\nConcerning two paralyytics and one blind man healed.\n\nBut since there are many virtues which the whole world experiences, of which not even the smallest part, as I think, has come to us, let us set forth those which the neighborhood experiences. And so Badegisil, bishop of the Cenomani, having been invited, came to a certain place in his diocese, to consecrate a basilica of the blessed man both in name and in relics. When the solemn rites had been celebrated, invoking the name of Saint Martin, two paralyytics received the power to walk, and one blind man received his sight.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":127,"ref":"p127","source":"CAPUT XXXVI.\n\nDe Augusto contracto.\n\nAugustus autem quidam civis urbis Turonicae, dum nimio renum dolore laborat, contractis pedibus et prope ad ipsos renes redactis, pessime debilitatur: in qua infirmitate per duorum annorum curricula laboravit. Deinde a suis commonitus basilicam Sancti expetiit, ibique per septem dies jejunans et orans, dempto dolore, directisque pedibus, sanus abscessit.\n\n'CAPUT XXXVII.\n\nDe puella muta.\n\nHoc tempore et mulier quaedam, dum discedentibus paribus, sola tantum remansit ad telam, apparuit ei sedenti umbra teterrima, quae arripiens illam trabere cæpit. At illa vociferans et pia ngens, cum nullum aspiceret auxilium, viriliter tamen resistere conabatur. Post decursa vero dua. rum aut trium horarum spatia, regressae mulieres reliquæ, invenerunt eam semivivam humo jacentem. nihil penitus loqui posse. Innuebat quidem illa manu: sed nihil eis intelligentibus, hæc muta permansit. Umbra vero, quae ei apparuerat, in tantum hominibus dumi illius insidiata est, at relinquentes locum, alio commigrarent. Postea vero, duorum aut trium mensium diebus decursis, ad basilicam puella veniens, eloquium meruit recipere. Sicque cuncta Quae pertulerat ore proprio eDarravit.","english":"CHAPTER XXXVI.\n\nConcerning Augustus, a cripple.\n\nNow a certain Augustus, a citizen of the city of Tours, while he was suffering from an excessive pain in the kidneys, with his feet drawn together and contracted almost back to the kidneys themselves, was grievously weakened; and in this infirmity he labored for the course of two years. Then, warned by his own people, he sought the basilica of the Saint, and there, fasting and praying for seven days, with the pain removed and his feet made straight, he departed healed.\n\nCHAPTER XXXVII.\n\nConcerning a mute girl.\n\nAt this time also a certain woman, when her companions had gone away, remained alone at the loom, and there appeared to her as she sat a most hideous shadow, which, seizing her, began to drag her. But she, crying out and beating her breast devoutly, since she saw no help, nevertheless strove manfully to resist. But after the space of two or three hours had passed, the remaining women, having returned, found her lying half-dead on the ground, able to speak nothing at all. She indeed made signs with her hand, but since they understood nothing, she remained mute. But the shadow which had appeared to her so greatly lay in wait for the men of that house that, leaving the place, they moved elsewhere. But afterwards, when the days of two or three months had passed, the girl, coming to the basilica, deserved to receive speech. And so she recounted with her own mouth all that she had endured.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":128,"ref":"p128","source":"CAPUT XXXVIII.\n\nDe diacono Catalaunensi. '\n\n. Interea Catalaunensis diaconus, ut mos illi genti est, aliis matutinales gratias celebrantibus, cum po. tum hauriret, oculorum amissione multatur; recognoscensque reatnm suum, et se non dignam proposito suo rem gessisse, suspenditur a cibo potuque, pernoctans in vigiliis, orationibusque insistene. Interea dum haec ageret, fama, quae totum late compleverat orbem, ad ejus aures usqne pervenit, esse scilicet apud Turonis Martinum antislileln. ad cujus sepulcrum saepe talium infirmitatum clades depulsa quiesceret. Nec moratur diaconus, sed illico iter institui jubens, ad basilicam sanctam non dubius de virtute beati Viri pervenit, ibique prostratus solo, orationi subnixus, die tertia apertis oculis lumen recepit. Ego vero dum cautius nitor extorquere veritalem, cur ei haec evenissent, haec ab eo didici. Ante hos, inquit, septem menses, dum, commoto matutinis signo, ecclesiam peterem obviam habui unum amicorum meorum; in cojus amplexus et oscula ruens, sciscitari coepi, si cuncta domi prospera reliquisset. Tunc revocatus a via, potum cum eodem haurire cœpi. Postquam autem charitatem per pocula explevisse visum est, vale dicto abscessit. Quo abeunte, tanto oculi mei glutino conjunctis palpebris adhæserunt, ut eos nullatenus aperire possem. Denique com in hac infirmitate tristis abirem.","english":"CHAPTER XXXVIII.\n\nConcerning the deacon of Châlons.\n\nMeanwhile a deacon of Châlons, as is the custom of that people, while others were celebrating morning thanksgivings, was struck with the loss of his eyes as he drained a cup; and recognizing his guilt, and that he had done a thing unworthy of his purpose, he abstained from food and drink, spending the night in vigils and persisting in prayers. Meanwhile, while he was doing these things, the fame that had filled the whole world far and wide reached even his ears—namely, that Martin the bishop was at Tours, at whose tomb the plagues of such infirmities, once driven out, were often laid to rest. Nor did the deacon delay, but immediately ordering the journey to be undertaken, he came to the holy basilica, not doubting the power of the blessed man, and there, prostrate on the ground, supported in prayer, on the third day, with his eyes opened, he received his sight. But I, while striving more carefully to extract the truth as to why these things had happened to him, learned this from him. He said: Before these seven months, while, the morning signal having been rung, I was making for the church, I met one of my friends; rushing into his embrace and kisses, I began to ask whether he had left everything at home prosperous. Then, called back from the road, I began to drain a drink with him. But after it seemed that we had fulfilled charity through cups, having said farewell, he departed. As he went away, my eyes stuck together with such great gum, with the eyelids joined, that I could by no means open them. Finally, when I was going away sad in this infirmity.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":129,"ref":"p129","source":"desiderium habui sepulcrum beati Antistitis visitare: die autem tertio postquam veni, cum ejus sepulcro assisterem, subito febris magna oculos meos arriuuit. At ego ingemere vehementer caepi, et Sancti auxilium fortiter deprecari: illico autem erumpens ex oculis meis sanguis noctem pepulit,diemque reduxit. Hæc nobis diaconus etfalus, incolumis remeavit ad propria.\n\nCAPUT XXXIX.\n\nDe muliere contracta et cæca.\n\nErat etiam mulier quaedam caeca, quae contractis retrorsum manibus ac pedibus, cum parentum solatio celebrare beatam festivitatem gloriosi Antistitis expetivit. Quae cum die tertia post decursam festivitatem ad domum redire cuperet, prostrata in sancta basilica orare caepit, ut ei Dominus solitam misericordiee suae opem dignaretur ostendere. Quod dum cum lacrymis peteret, illico directis minibus, ac ped ibus stabili tis, ad sanctum adducta sepulcrum, gratias pro accepta sospitate peregit. Post haec rugat se deduci ad ostium, ubi prostrata iterum dicit suis: Nun hinc consurgam. nisi prius mihi oculorum lumen reddat, qui pedum manuumque restituit usum. Haec ea dicente, subito energumeni torqueri se proclamant, et Martini adesse præsentiam confiteatur. Sed cum diabolus, qui ab initio Mendax est (JMn. VIII, 44), ad credendum minime admittatur, rebus tamen ipsis beati Viri praesentia declaratur.","english":"I had a desire to visit the tomb of the blessed bishop; and on the third day after I came, while I stood by his tomb, a great fever suddenly seized my eyes. And I began to groan vehemently and to earnestly implore the help of the saint; and immediately blood bursting forth from my eyes drove away the night and brought back the day. The deacon told us these things, and returned safe to his own home.\n\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\n\nConcerning the crippled and blind woman.\n\nThere was also a certain blind woman, whose hands and feet were contracted backwards, who, with the comfort of her relatives, sought to celebrate the blessed festival of the glorious bishop. And when on the third day after the festival had passed she wished to return home, she prostrated herself in the holy basilica and began to pray that the Lord might deign to show her the accustomed help of his mercy. While she asked this with tears, immediately her hands were made straight and her feet were made firm, and being led to the holy tomb, she gave thanks for the health she had received. After this she asked to be led to the door, where, prostrating herself again, she said to her people: I will not rise from here unless he who restored the use of my feet and hands first restores to me the light of my eyes. As she said this, suddenly those possessed by demons cried out that they were being tormented, and confessed that Martin was present. But although the devil, who is a liar from the beginning (Jn. VIII, 44), is in no way to be believed, yet by the things themselves the presence of the blessed man was declared.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":130,"ref":"p130","source":"Nam femioa haec, quae paulo ante directa fuerat, nunc illuminata, adesse beatum Antistitem approbavit.\n\nCAPUT XL.\n\nDe paralytico sanato.\n\nModico autem succedente spatio, jacebat paralyticus unus in grabato, qui ex Biturico plaustro devectus advenerat. Ipse etiam pari modo virtute beati Antistitis visitatus surrexit incolumis, suisque redditus gressibus, parentum a spectante caterva, sanus excipitur.\n\nCAPUT XLI.\n\nI D, catenis super puellam confractis.\n\nHis diebus puella quædam, jam ex libertis pa. rentibus procreata, a filiis patroni, confracta liberlate, ad jugum servitutis addicitur: unde factum est ut ilia non acquiescente injustis dominis quidquam operis exercere, catenis et compedibus vinciretur. In qua custodia dum aliis beatam festivitatem expetentibus resideret, Cens et ejulans, cur nou in-, tcresset beatae festivitati, subito trabs in qua pedes ejus arctati erant scinditur; et haec quasi jam libera, nexa quidem catenis, elapsa beatam basilicam expetivit Verbum ubi primum pedes ejus sacra limina contigerunt, statim confractæ catenæ ceciderunt a sollo ejus; et sic incolumitate pariter libertateque donata est.","english":"For this woman, who had been sent forth a little while before, now enlightened, proved that the blessed Bishop was present.\n\nCHAPTER XL.\n\nConcerning the paralytic healed.\n\nAfter a short interval, moreover, a certain paralytic lay on a cot, who had been carried there on a cart from Bituricum. He too, in like manner, visited by the power of the blessed Bishop, rose up sound, and, restored to his own steps, was received whole by the crowd of his kinsfolk looking on.\n\nCHAPTER XLI.\n\nThe same, with the chains broken upon the girl.\n\nIn those days a certain girl, born of parents already of freedman status, was, her freedom having been broken, consigned to the yoke of slavery by the sons of her patron; whence it came about that, since she would not consent to perform any work for her unjust masters, she was bound with chains and fetters. While she remained in that custody, when others were seeking the blessed festival, she sat groaning and wailing that she could not be present at the blessed festival; suddenly the beam to which her feet were fastened was split; and she, as though already free, though still bound with chains, slipped away and sought the blessed basilica. And as soon as her feet touched the sacred threshold, at once the broken chains fell from her sole; and so she was granted both soundness and freedom together.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":131,"ref":"p131","source":"XLII. CAPUT\n\n.De libro Vitæ ejus inter flammas salvato.\n\nQuid si ad ipsa beatæ Vitæ scripta recur ram? Nunquid non erit admirabile, quod sacer ille hujus hisloriæ liber circumdatus flammis, nec adustus est, nec consumptus? Monachus igitur Majoris monasterii ex jussu abbatis ad cellulam aliam, uasi aliquid operaturus, accessit, ac, pro salute animæ ac vitas correctione, librum vitae bean Anti. stilis detulit secum. Adveniente vero nocte, in lectulo se diuturno oppleto stramine collocat, librum ad caput locans. Cui dormienti apparuit vir per somnum, dicens: Noli dormire in bis paleis, san. guine enim aspelsæ sunt. Credo ego, ut mortalitas babet, aliquod in his facinus perpetratum, et ob hoc non pateretur Vir beatus verba laudis suae inibi volutari. Facilis autem prima visio viro fuit, nec secunda commonitio valuit: tertia auteni terribili ter monachum quaLit. At ille surgens, et all operaM diluculo progrediens, puero jubet ut paleas a lectulo detractas igne consumeret, nihil de libro commemorans. P.ucr vero ignarus inter paleas, apprehensum librum foras ejecit, et ignem accendit. Quibus in favillam redactis, cum nihil aliud nisi cineres remansissent, apparuit liber illaesus, de quo non littera [Colb. tld., latera], non unum, ut veritas habet, folium est consumptum.","english":"CHAPTER XLII\n\nConcerning the book of her Life saved from the flames.\n\nWhat if I return to the writings of the blessed Vita herself? Will it not be wonderful that that sacred book of her history, surrounded by flames, was neither scorched nor consumed? A monk, therefore, of the greater monastery, at the abbot's command, went to another cell, as if to do some work, and, for the salvation of his soul and the correction of his life, carried with him the book of the Life of the blessed Antistis. When night came, he laid himself on a bed stuffed with long-used straw, placing the book at his head. As he slept, a man appeared to him in a dream, saying: Do not sleep on this straw, for it is stained with blood. I believe, as is the way with mortals, that some crime was committed there, and for this reason the blessed man did not suffer the words of his praise to be rolled about in that place. Yet the first vision was easy for the man, and the second warning did not prevail; but a third shook the monk three times with terror. And he, rising and going forth at dawn to other work, ordered a boy to drag the straw from the bed and burn it with fire, saying nothing about the book. But the boy, unaware, seized the book among the straw, threw it outside, and kindled the fire. When these were reduced to embers, and nothing remained but ashes, the book appeared unharmed, of which not a letter, not one leaf—as the truth holds—was consumed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":132,"ref":"p132","source":"Ita virtus divina custodire dignata est alumni quodammodo proprii laudes, ut librum ejus flamma non ureret, quem aculeus concupiscentiae in hoc saeculo uon adussit. Sed ne cui incredibile videatur, Codex ipse apud nos usque hodie retinetur.\n\nCAPUT XLIII.\n\nDe duobu. pueri, sanatis.\n\nDenique cum quadam vice iter ageremus, duo pueri de custodibus equorum ægrotare cœ perunt: et unus. quidem eorum valetudine, alter dysenteria laborabat. Utrumque tamen febris valida retinebat, lassatique taliter erant, ut nec super dorsa caballorum possent impositi sustineri. Extractum autem pulverem, quem de sepulcro Sancti abstuleram super capsellam, delatumque aqua ipsis haurire præcipio. Mox compressa febre, restinotoque dolore, uterque convaluit.\n\nCAPUT XLIV.\n\nDe Malulfo contracto.\n\nInclyta sunt enim miracula quae quotidie Dominus ad laudem Antistitis sui operari dignatur, et, ut sæpe testatus sum, hæc a me imperito narrari non possunt: tamen, ut ipsa imperitia præstat, elucu brabuntur, ne occuli videatur. Malulfus quidam Turonici territorii civis, aegritudine saeva compressus, lectulo in suo anhelus occubuit; ex quo tabescens incommodo, manibus pedibusque contrahitur. Quinque vero annorum curricula in hac Sancti basilicam sustinuit. Sexto denique anno ad in Sancti basilicam se efferri deposcit: in qua orationi decumbens, perdita debilitate, sospitatem meruit adipisci.","english":"Thus the divine power deigned to guard, as it were, the praises of its own foster-son, so that the flame did not burn his book, which the sting of desire had not scorched in this world. But lest this seem incredible to anyone, the codex itself is kept among us to this day.\n\nCHAPTER XLIII\n\nConcerning two boys who were healed.\n\nMoreover, when we were once on a journey, two boys from among the grooms began to fall ill: and one of them was suffering from sickness, the other from dysentery. Yet a strong fever held both, and they were so weakened that they could not even be placed upon the backs of the horses and borne. But I took the dust which I had brought from the Saint's tomb upon a little box, and when it had been brought, I ordered them to drink it with water. At once the fever was checked, the pain was stayed, and both recovered.\n\nCHAPTER XLIV\n\nConcerning Malulf, who was crippled.\n\nFor the miracles are renowned which the Lord daily deigns to work to the praise of his Bishop, and, as I have often testified, these cannot be told by me, an unskilled man; yet, as that very lack of skill allows, they will be brought to light, lest they seem hidden. A certain Malulf, a citizen of the territory of Tours, was struck down by a savage illness and lay gasping upon his bed; wasting away from that affliction, he was contracted in his hands and feet. For the space of five years he endured this in the Saint's basilica. At last, in the sixth year, he asked to be carried to the Saint's basilica; and there, lying down in prayer, with his weakness lost, he merited to obtain health.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":133,"ref":"p133","source":"CAPUT XLV.\n\nDe alterius manibus directis\n\nEt ne ob hoc cuiquam quae referuntur videantur incredibilia, quia singulorum non sunt in paginis prænotata, facit hoc hæc causa, quia cum a Sancto Dei incolumitati fuerint redditi statim recedunt: et aliquoties ita clam redeunt, ut, si dici fas est, a nemine videantur. Cumque rumor surrexit beati Antistitis apparuisse virtutem, vocatis ad nos custodibus ædis, quæ sunt acta cognoscimus: nomina tamen non semper ab his discimus. Illos vero plerumque nominatim scribimus, quos videre potuerhnus, aut quos ipsi disculiwus. Venit ad fesliviLatem vir quidam ei Biturigo manibus debilis, cujus digiti in palma erant defixi in tantum, ut putaretur I104vermibus scatere. Sed celebrata solemnitate, directis ambarum manuum digitis, incolumitati donatus est; viditque eum omnis populos sospitem redeuntem. Cui causa debilitatis ex hoc contigit, quod sepem segetis die Dominico componere voluisset.","english":"CHAPTER XLV.\n\nConcerning the hands of another man made straight\n\nAnd lest for this reason the things that are reported seem incredible to anyone—because they are not written down in the pages individually—the reason for this is that when they have been restored to health by the Saint of God, they depart at once; and sometimes they return so secretly that, if it may be said, they are seen by no one. And when a report arose that the power of the blessed Bishop had appeared, we summoned the guardians of the shrine to us and learned what had been done; yet we do not always learn their names from them. But for the most part we write by name those whom we have been able to see, or whom they themselves have disclosed. There came to the festival a certain man of Bourges, weak in his hands, whose fingers were so fixed into his palm that he was thought to swarm with worms. But when the solemnity had been celebrated, the fingers of both his hands were made straight, and he was granted health; and all the people saw him returning sound. The cause of his weakness came from this, that he had wished to build a hedge of grain on the Lord's day.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":134,"ref":"p134","source":"CAPUT XLVI.\n\n, De muliere cujus brachium contraxerat.\n\nMulier ex Pictavo territorio erat, cujus brachium contractis nervis emarcuerat. Ad sepulcrum autem beati Viri veniens, ac in oratione vigiliisque pernoctans, brachium suum sanum retulit: sed illico a dominis in servitio mancipata, eadem incurrit. Revertitur Herum, et sanatur. Tunc venientes domini ejus, et eam abducere nitentes, accepto de rebus Sancti preLio, Quieverunt, et ita hæc libertati donatur.\n\nCAPUT XLVII.\n\nDe eo gui pro debito tenebatur.\n\nHisce diebus cum quidam pro dissolvendo debito, quod in necessitatibus suis contraxerat, interpellaretur, nec esset virtus atque facultas ad reddendum quae mutuaverat, in carcere coarctatur. Denique cum videret creditor quod ei nibil extorquere posset, quia nihil habebat, nec esset qui ei manum miser!cordiae porrigeret, arctius eum in vincula constringit, negatoque cibo ac potu dicebat: Ego te faciam ad omnium documentum fame tabescere, donec omnia reddas. Haec autem cum agerentur, sancti Antistitis reliquiæ, quae in Suessionicum pagum ferebantur, per plateam praeteribant. Auditis itaque vinctus psallentium vocibus, oravit ut eum virtus Antistitis saucti visitaret: statimque dissolutis ligaminibus, nullo retinente, basilicam sanctam ingreditur. DeLinc a devotis redemptus, a nexu debiti absolutus est.","english":"CHAPTER XLVI.\n\nConcerning the woman whose arm had been contracted.\n\nThere was a woman from the territory of Poitiers whose arm had withered, its sinews having contracted. Coming to the tomb of the blessed man, and spending the night in prayer and vigils, she brought her arm back sound; but immediately, being handed over to owners in servitude, she incurred the same condition again. She returns to the tomb, and is healed. Then her owners came, and striving to lead her away, having received a payment from the possessions of the saint, they desisted, and so she is granted her freedom.\n\nCHAPTER XLVII.\n\nConcerning the man who was held for a debt.\n\nIn these days, when a certain man was pressed for the payment of a debt which he had contracted for his necessities, and he had neither the means nor the ability to repay what he had borrowed, he was confined in prison. At last, when the creditor saw that he could extort nothing from him, because he had nothing, and that there was no one to extend to him a hand of mercy, he bound him more tightly in chains, and having denied him food and drink, he said: I will make you waste away with hunger as a lesson to all, until you repay everything. While these things were being done, the relics of the holy bishop, which were being carried into the territory of Soissons, were passing through the street. And so the prisoner, having heard the voices of those singing psalms, prayed that the power of the holy bishop might visit him; and immediately, his bonds being loosed, with no one restraining him, he entered the holy basilica. Then, having been redeemed by the devoted faithful, he was freed from the bond of his debt.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":135,"ref":"p135","source":"CAPUT I.\n\n_ De cæca illuminata.\n\nFactum est etiam in una festivitatum ut mulier quæ, perdito lumine, in caecitate durabat, auditis Sancti viri miraculis, alacri devotione basilicam ejus expeteret. Prostrata autem super aridam humum ante sepulcrum, mox ut orationem fudit, lumen recipere meruit.\n\nCAPUT XLIX.\n\nDe paralytico omni corpore debile.\n\nIn hac solemnitate advenit puerulus oculorum obtutibus clausis, auriuin aditibus oppilatis.; uris officris obstructis, manuum usibus perditis, pedum gressibus condemnatis. Quid plura? ita erat omnium membrorum usu praemortuus, ut solo spiritu paJpitaret. Ut autem locum sanctum attigit, omni prorsus debilitate submota, cum gratiarum actione sanuS abscessit.\n\nCAPUT L.\n\nDe prubytero a frigoribus sanato.\n\nLupus Burdegalensis urbis presbyter quodam tempore graviter a quartano typo vexabator, ita ut accedente febre, neque cibum, neque potum sumere posset. Interea advenit festivitas sancti Martini anlistitis. At ille celebratis cum reliquo clero [Ed.,, poputo] vigiliis, mane praecedit omnes, et ad basilicam Sancti festinat. Dum autem properat, obvium habuit Judaeum, et eo inquirente quo pergeret, respondit: Typum quartanum incurri, et nune ad basilicam Sancti propero, ut me virtus ejus ab infirmitate bac discutiat. Qui ait: Martinus tibi nihil proderit, quem terra opprimens terreum fecit, et tu incassum ejus aedem expetis.","english":"CHAPTER I.\n\nConcerning the blind woman who was enlightened.\n\nIt also came to pass at one of the festivals that a woman who, having lost her sight, remained in blindness, upon hearing of the miracles of the holy man, sought his basilica with eager devotion. And when she had prostrated herself on the bare ground before the tomb, as soon as she poured forth her prayer, she merited to receive her sight.\n\nCHAPTER XLIX.\n\nConcerning the paralytic who was weak in his whole body.\n\nAt this solemnity there came a little boy with the gaze of his eyes closed, the passages of his ears stopped up, the offices of his mouth obstructed, the uses of his hands lost, the steps of his feet condemned. What more? He was so deadened in the use of all his members that he breathed only with his spirit alone. But when he reached the holy place, all his weakness being utterly removed, he departed healed with thanksgiving.\n\nCHAPTER L.\n\nConcerning the priest healed of fevers.\n\nLupus, a priest of the city of Bordeaux, was at a certain time grievously vexed by a quartan fever, so that when the fever came upon him he could take neither food nor drink. Meanwhile the festival of the blessed Martin the bishop arrived. And he, having celebrated the vigils with the rest of the clergy, in the morning went before them all and hastened to the basilica of the Saint. And while he was hurrying, he met a Jew, and when the latter asked him where he was going, he answered: I have contracted a quartan fever, and now I am hastening to the basilica of the Saint, that his power may drive this sickness from me. The other said: Martin will profit you nothing, whom the earth pressing upon him has made of earth, and you seek his shrine in vain.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":136,"ref":"p136","source":"Non enim poterit mortuus vicentibus tribuere medicinam. At ille despiciens verba serpentis antiqui, abiit quo coeperat, et prostratus coram sanctis pignoribus orationem fudit, reperitque ibi duas candelulas ex cera et papyro formatas. Quibus assumptis, Z106 ad domum exhibet, illuminatisque eis, favillam papyri cum aqua munda hausit, moxque sanitatem recepit. Judaeus vero ab hac infirmitate correptus, per anni spatium ventilatus est; sed mend iniqua neque tormentis mutari potuit IIOquam.\n\nCAPUT LI.\n\nDe infantulo CardegiBili filio sanato.\n\nCardegisilus * vero Santonicæ urbis civis, cognomento Cyso, susceptis nobis ad domum suam, invitat ad oratorium quod mater ejus ædificatum beati Martini reliquiis consecravit. Denique cum eipleta oratione solliciti essemus si ibidem virtus sancti Antistitis ostensa fuisset, respondit: Ante annum tertium puerulus iste filius meus, quem coram cernitis, cum adhuc penderet ad matris papillam, incommode agere caepit, ac per triginta dies aut eo awplius, inter manus non sine labore deportabatur, donec ita addictus est, ut nec mamillam valeret sugere, nedum alium capere cum. Deficiente autem eo, jam die sexto postquam gravius agere caepit, deposuimus eum ante altare flentes, atque ejus obitum praestolantes. Ego autem dolorem non ferens, discessi a domo, mandans mulieri ut cum obiisset, statim sepulturæ eum locaret.","english":"For a dead man cannot give healing to the living. But he, despising the words of the ancient serpent, went back to where he had begun, and prostrate before the holy relics he poured out a prayer, and found there two little candles made of wax and papyrus. Taking these, he brought them home, and when they were lit, he drank down the ash of the papyrus with clean water, and at once received healing. But the Jew, seized by this infirmity, was tossed about for the space of a year; yet he could not be changed from his wicked mind even by torments.\n\nCHAPTER LI.\n\nConcerning the little infant son of Cardegisilus who was healed.\n\nBut Cardegisilus, a citizen of the city of Saintes, surnamed Cyso, when we had been received into his house, invited us to the oratory which his mother had built and consecrated with the relics of the blessed Martin. Then, when after prayer we were anxious to know whether the power of the holy Bishop had been shown there, he replied: Three years ago, this little boy, my son, whom you see before you, while he still hung at his mother's breast, began to be unwell, and for thirty days or more he was carried about in people's hands not without labor, until he was so afflicted that he could not even suck the breast, much less take any other food. And as he was failing, now on the sixth day after he had begun to be more seriously ill, we laid him weeping before the altar, awaiting his death. But I, unable to bear the grief, departed from the house, instructing my wife that when he had died, she should at once place him for burial.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":137,"ref":"p137","source":"Flente autem genitrice, jacuit infans usque ad vesperum; cadente autem sole elevat vocem suam, dicens: Dulcissima soror, ub' es? Sic enim genitricem, ut blanditia infantium habet, vocitare solitus crat. At illa accurrit, dicens: Adsuln, fili dulcissime. Susceptoque eo in ulnis, et moi porrecta papilla, hausto lactc protinus convaluit.\n\nCAPUT LIL,\n\nDe clerice dysenterico.\n\nHis diebus quando nobis hæc relata sunt, unus clericorum nostrorum ventris fluxum incurrit cum febre, M nimiam defectionem stomachi; et quae prejiciebat per inferiorem partem, pars maxima cruor erat. Et ea eausa eum magis affecerat, quia cibum quem accipiebat, invalescente 110J nausea, statim rejiciebat: sed protinus, ut de sepuleri pulvere bibit, MMM infirmitate dempta, firmatus est.\n\nCAPUT LIII.\n\nDe appenso obsoluto. item de alio.\n\nSed nec boc silendum putavi, quod saepius ill mortem praecipites, extensa pietatis dextera, suble.avit. Denique Genitoris civis nostri.[Ed., denique Doster] servus a judice pro furti scelere comprehensue, patibulo adjudicatur. Qui dum duceretur, nomes beati Antistitis invocabat, dicens: Libera nte, sancte confessor Martine, ab imminenti periculo. Appensua igitur ac solus relictus, commoto subito vente, audivit vocem dicentem: Liberemus eum.","english":"As his mother wept, the infant lay there until evening; but when the sun was setting, he raised his voice and said: \"Dearest sister, where are you?\" For he was accustomed to call his mother this, as is the way with the endearments of infants. And she ran to him, saying: \"Here I am, dearest son.\" And taking him up in her arms and offering her breast, once the milk was drunk he straightway recovered.\n\nCHAPTER 50\n\nConcerning a cleric with dysentery.\n\nIn these days, when these things were reported to us, one of our clerics came down with a flux of the belly together with fever and an excessive failure of the stomach; and what he discharged from below was for the most part blood. And this affliction had gripped him all the more because the food he took, as the nausea grew worse, he straightway threw up: but at once, as soon as he drank of the dust from the tomb, the infirmity was removed and he was made well.\n\nCHAPTER 51\n\nConcerning a man hanged and released. Likewise concerning another.\n\nBut I did not think this should be passed over in silence either, that he very often raised up those rushing headlong to death, stretching out the right hand of his mercy. In short, the servant of a citizen of our own city [Genitor], seized by the judge for the crime of theft, was sentenced to the gallows. As he was being led away, he kept invoking the name of the blessed bishop, saying: \"Free me, holy confessor Martin, from the impending danger.\" So, having been hanged and left alone, with the wind suddenly stirred up, he heard a voice saying: \"Let us free him.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":138,"ref":"p138","source":"Et ecce a quatuor partibuscœli concussus stipes qui hominem sustentabat, cum immense cespite in modum arboris eridicatæ a terra divellitur, et sic homo morti deditus redivivus erigitur. Aliu8 quoque a qui multa fecerat scelera, et, compunctu8 a Deo, pœnitentiam pro malis quae gesserat agebat, apprehensus siue causa, simili nece damnatur, invocans semper candi Confessoris auxilium. Qui cum appensus fuisset, disruptis vinculis illæsus ad terram ntit. Sed mala mens hominum iterum appendit quem Deus eripuit. Quod audiens abbas monasterii a loco proximi, currit ad comitem, rogaturus pro eo; erat enim longe exinde quasi tribus millibus, obtentaque cum eo rei hujus vita, rediit, vivumque reperiit. Quo a suspėndio deposito, adduxit ad monasterium prdtentem atque dicentem: Quia sensi virtutem sancti Martini gui me eripuit.\n\nCaPUT LIY.\n\nDe muto sanato.","english":"And behold, the beam that supported the man was shaken from the four quarters of heaven, and together with a vast mass of turf it was torn from the earth like a tree uprooted, and so the man, given over to death, was raised up alive again. Another man also, who had committed many crimes and, pricked by God, was doing penance for the evils he had done, was seized for some reason or other and condemned to a similar death, ever invoking the aid of the blessed Confessor. And when he had been hung up, his bonds were broken and he fell to the ground unharmed. But the evil mind of men hung up again the man whom God had rescued. Hearing this, the abbot of the nearby monastery ran to the count to plead for him; for he was about three miles distant from there. Having obtained from him the man's life in this matter, he returned and found him alive. Having taken him down from the hanging, he brought him to the monastery, the man declaring and saying: \"For I have felt the power of Saint Martin, who rescued me.\"\n\nCHAPTER LIV.\n\nConcerning the mute man healed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":139,"ref":"p139","source":"Erat enim homo infra terminum ipsius Turonicæ urbis, ex vico montis Laudiacensis, et homo ille erat natura simplex, nexus vinculo conjugali. Cui cum conjuge quiescenti nocte media pavor exoritur, exterritusque ac de lectulo exsiliens, dum per hospitiolum suum vagatur trepidus, vocis perdidit famulatum. Nec moratus, indicat nutu conjugi ut cum ad Sancti basilicam exhiberet. Qui adveniens, dum ante beatum sepulcrum per ser assidue decubat menses in oratione, absoluta lingua, eloquium sicut antea habuerat, recipere meruit virtute beati Antistitis.\n\nCAPUT LV.\n\nDe muliere cujus manus contraxerat.\n\nMulier Transligeritana in die Dominico cum operam exerceret, quam in die illo fieri Patrum nhibet auctoritas, manus ejus contracta diriguit, digitique in palmam defixi sunt. Quae dum doloribus cruciaretur, ad sanctam aedem Confessoris accessit; vovitque, ut si ab bac sanaretur infirmitate, nullum opus deinceps in hac dominicae resurrectionis ageret die quod illi diei esset incongruum: statimque amotis digitis a palma, manu directa discessit.","english":"For there was a man within the territory of the city of Tours itself, from the village of Mont Laudun, and that man was simple by nature, bound in the bond of marriage. As he lay at rest with his wife in the middle of the night, terror arose, and, stricken with fear and leaping from the bed, while he wandered trembling through his little lodging, he lost the service of his voice. Without delay, he indicated by a nod to his wife that she should bring him to the basilica of the Saint. When he arrived, while he lay continually before the blessed tomb for several months in prayer, his tongue was released, and he merited to receive speech as he had had it before, by the power of the blessed Bishop.\n\nCHAPTER LV.\n\nConcerning the woman whose hand had contracted.\n\nA woman of Transliger, on the Lord's day, while she was doing work which the authority of the Fathers forbids to be done on that day, her hand contracted and stiffened, and her fingers were fixed into her palm. While she was tormented with pains, she came to the holy church of the Confessor; and she vowed that, if she were healed of this infirmity, she would thereafter do no work on this day of the Lord's resurrection which would be unfitting for that day; and immediately, with her fingers removed from her palm and her hand made straight, she departed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":140,"ref":"p140","source":"CAPUT LVL.\n\nDe mulierecontracta et cæca.\n\nMana esc enim pietas Confessoris, quæ sic argine insipientes, ut ponens vitium ante oculos, reddat inposterum emendatos. Pro bac ca8sa mulier alis debililatur. Nam cum die Sabbati post sołis occasum, quod adjacet resurrectionis dominicæ nocti, panem furno collocaret, brachium ejus dolore quatitur. Post injectum alium et tertium panem, manus invita lignum quod tenebat coepit astringere: intelligensque mulier divinae se virtutis judicio condemnari, velociter palam quam tenebat abjecit: nihilominus noe effugere potuit pœnam. Nam ita manus ejus cum gravi dolore contractæ sunt, ut ungulae in ipsa defigerentur palma. Ex hoc nullius medici se credens posse fomento sanari, Beati basilicam expetivit, ibique fideliter orans, directis manibus, sanata discessit; vovitque ut per singulos menses, una hebdomada ad sanctum templum veniens, debeat IDeo et beato Antistiti deservire. Quod per unum annum eam observasse manifestissime cogn!tum est. Post annum vero intermissa unius mensis hebdomada, non accessit ad sanctam basilicam. Sedemi vero in hospitiolo suo oculus ei a dolore transfigitur: illum autem comprimens perdidit, et alius quoque dolere coepit extemplo. ita in unius horæ momento caeca ab oculis ambobus erficitur.","english":"CHAPTER LVI.\n\nConcerning a woman who was contracted and blinded.\n\nFor the goodness of the Confessor is so great that it checks the foolish, setting their fault before their eyes, so as to make them corrected thereafter. For this reason a certain woman is weakened in her arms. For when on the Sabbath day after sunset, which adjoins the night of the Lord's resurrection, she placed bread in the oven, her arm was shaken with pain. After a second and a third loaf had been put in, her hand, unwilling, began to stiffen upon the wood which it was holding; and the woman, understanding that she was condemned by the judgment of divine power, quickly cast away openly what she was holding; nevertheless she could not escape the punishment. For her hands were so contracted with severe pain that her nails were driven into the palm itself. From this, believing that she could be healed by no physician's remedy, she sought the basilica of the Blessed Martyr, and there praying faithfully with hands stretched out, she departed healed; and she vowed that through each single month, coming for one week to the holy temple, she should serve God and the blessed Bishop. And this she was most manifestly known to have observed for one year. But after a year, having omitted the week of one month, she did not come to the holy basilica. But as she sat in her little lodging, one of her eyes was pierced with pain: pressing it, she lost it, and the other also began at once to ache. Thus in the space of a single hour she was made blind in both eyes.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":141,"ref":"p141","source":"Nec mura, confessa culpam ad praesidia nota confugit; ibique orationem suppliciter fundens, ac paenitentiam pro negligentia compuncte agens, die octava, sansuine ab oculis profluente, illuminata est.\n\nCAPUT LVII.\n\n, De caco illuminuto.\n\nHominis cujusdam oculi crassa caliginis nube eontecti, qnodam glutino conjunctis palpebris fuerant obserati, et quod supererat viro,magnis doloribus tenebatur. Quid plura? Festivitatem Sancti cum reliquis devotus expetiit, attente exorans ut a virtute beati Antistitis visitari mereretur in die solemnitatis. Sed sacra solemnia praevenit potentia Confessoris, ostendens se adesse populis, cum tenebras pepulit, lumenque refudit, igitur ante diem tertium festivitalis, hoc in atrio quod absidam corporis ambit eo orante, subito aperti sunt oculi ejus, et aspiciens tucern videre meruit. Quod cum bis qui aderant cum gratiarum actione narraret. dictum est ei ut sUeM; potius orationem funderet, ut cœptam virtutem bea. I tus Antistes celerius adimpleret. Tunc prostratus terne, cum in lacrymas prorupisset, frmatis oculis, a solo incolumis lurrelit.","english":"Nor did the woman delay; having confessed her fault, she fled to the well-known defenses; and there pouring out prayer suppliantly, and performing penance for her negligence in compunction, on the eighth day, with blood flowing from her eyes, she was healed.\n\nCHAPTER LVII.\n\nConcerning a blind man who was healed.\n\nThe eyes of a certain man, covered by a thick cloud of darkness, had been closed with the eyelids joined as if by glue, and what remained of the man was held by great pains. What more? Devoutly he sought the festival of the Saint with the others, earnestly praying that he might deserve to be visited by the power of the blessed Bishop on the day of the solemnity. But the power of the Confessor anticipated the sacred solemnities, showing that he was present to the people when he drove away the darkness and restored the light. Therefore, three days before the festival, while he was praying in that atrium which surrounds the apse of the body, suddenly his eyes were opened, and looking, he merited to see the light. And when he recounted this with thanksgiving to those who were present, it was said to him that he should rather pour out prayer, so that the blessed Bishop might more swiftly fulfill the healing he had begun. Then, prostrated on the ground, when he had burst into tears, with his eyes strengthened, he rose up whole from the ground.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":142,"ref":"p142","source":"CAPUT LVIII.\n\nDe paralytico et duobus cæcis emundati,.sanatis, et duobus ener gumeni.\n\nPost diem vero tertium hujus sełemnitatis, erat quidam paralyticus hoc in loco exorans, cui debilitas hac de causa, ut ipse enarravit, evenerat, quia dum esset puer parvulus, et HIO cum reliquis pastoribus pecorum in campo custodiam gereret, super fontem quemdam obdormivit; alii quoque ad me. ridiem recedentibus, hic solus remansit. Tandemque relictus a somno dum consurgere nititur, doloribus coarctatur. Mox membris omnibus contractus, ac retortis extrorsum brachiis, contractis in poplite nervis, calcaneis ad crura deductis, cum nulla esset virtus eundi, immensae ab e6 lacrymæ cum magnis vucibos efOuebant. Reversis autem sociis ad visenda pecora, hic ejulans invenitur. Dehinc parentum ulnis ablatus, domui restituitur. Post dies vero paucos cum parumper a doloribus laxaretur, mendicis quibusdam deputatus est, cum quibus per decem aut eo amplius annos regiones urbesque circumiens, ad hanc quoque festivitatem adveniens, membris omnibus solidatus est. Duo eadem die illuminati cæci, duo energumeni ad sepuleram Antistitis emundati sunt.","english":"CHAPTER LVIII.\n\nConcerning the paralytic and the two blind men cleansed and healed, and the two possessed.\n\nBut after the third day of this solemnity, there was a certain paralytic praying in this place, whose infirmity had come upon him for this reason, as he himself recounted: because when he was a very small boy and was keeping watch over the flocks in the field with the other shepherds, he fell asleep beside a certain spring; and when the others had likewise gone away at midday, he alone remained. And at last, left behind, when he tried to rise from sleep, he was seized by pains. Straightway all his limbs were contracted, and his arms twisted outward, the sinews in his knee drawn together, his heels pulled up to his shins, and since he had no strength to walk, immense tears poured from him with great cries. But when his companions returned to look after the flocks, he was found wailing. Then, carried in the arms of his parents, he was brought back home. But after a few days, when he was somewhat relieved of his pains, he was assigned to certain beggars, and going about with them through regions and cities for ten years or more, he came also to this festivity and was made firm in all his limbs. Two blind men were enlightened on the same day, and two possessed persons were cleansed at the tomb of the Bishop.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":143,"ref":"p143","source":"CAPUT L!X.\n\nDe puero (ebricitante.\n\nAdolescens quidam ex nostris, nocturnis febribus vexabatur in tantum, ut ab hora diei octava usque in crastinum secunda diei hora, nullam aestuandi quietem posset accipere. Erat enim ei et horribilis omnis cibus, nec quidquam unde confortaretur, accipiebat. Dolor etiam saevus membra omnia qualiebat, sed et pallor genas obsederat. Dumque sic inter manus ferretur parentum ut aeger, aegre obtincre potui * ut ad sepulcrum beati Antistitis deferretur. Tandem allatus, ut de sacrosancto tumuli pulvere diluto potum sumpsit, mox ab hac benedictione, fugato universo dolore, febris exstincta est. Nec mora, secreta digestionum loca puer expetit, deducitur in angulo ventris purgandi gratia. Verum ubi voluntateM ahi, flatu impellente profudit, statim duo vermes ab eo in modum serpentum processerunt: qui ita moveri oculis hominum videbantur, ut vivere putarentur. His ergo aD eo digestis, illico ad plenum sanatus est, et cibum, ut solitus erat, hausit et potum, ruborque genis, fugalo pallore, redditur, membrisque omnibus solidatur.","english":"CHAPTER LIX.\n\nConcerning the boy who was feverish.\n\nA certain youth of our people was afflicted with nocturnal fevers to such an extent that from the eighth hour of the day until the second hour of the next day he could obtain no respite from the burning heat. Indeed, all food was hateful to him, and he took nothing by which he might be strengthened. A fierce pain also racked all his limbs, and pallor had settled upon his cheeks. And while he was thus carried in the arms of his parents as an invalid, I scarcely could obtain that he be brought to the tomb of the blessed Bishop. At last, having been brought there, when he had drunk a draught made from the sacred dust of the tomb mixed with water, straightway by this blessing, all his pain having been put to flight, the fever was extinguished. Without delay, the boy sought the private places of digestion, and was led into a corner for the purpose of purging his belly. But when, with his will urging him on and the wind driving it forth, he voided it, immediately two worms came out from him in the manner of serpents, which seemed to move so before the eyes of men that they were thought to be alive. These having been expelled from him, he was forthwith fully healed, and he took food and drink as he had been accustomed, and the redness was restored to his cheeks, the pallor having been put to flight, and he was made firm in all his limbs.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":144,"ref":"p144","source":"CAPUT LX.\n\nDe his quæ in meo itinere gesta sunt.\n\nOpportunitatis causa nuper exstiterat ut ad visitandam genitricem meam ill territorium Cavillonensis v urbis adirem. Sed metuens superventuras iufirmila. tes, de hoc pulvere, id est sepulcri beati AntistitiS auferre, et mecum deferre praesumpsi, scilicet ut cum quempiam nostrorum morbus aliquis invasisset, virtus Sancti ope consuetudinaria subveniret. Ubi igitur ad matrem accessi, protinus unum puerum febris cum dysenteria arripit, atterit et consumit, ita ut negato usu vescendi, de solis febribus alerer tur. Die tErtia cum haec agerentur, et ad me perlaLo\" fuisset, delibutum e pulverem ad bibendum porrigo moribundo, statilnque, fugata febre sedatoque dolore, convaluit. His diebus a Verano antistite audivi, quod quodam tempore dum typi quartani aestu ure. retur, expetita beati Martini basilica, quae in loco illo erat, celebrata vigilia sanatus fuit. Nos vero ex hoc itinere Arvernum venientes, reperimus Avitum episcopum a tertiano typo ita graviter concuti, ut eUam si aliquid cibi sumeret, statim rejiceret: sed de huc pignore potu sumpto, calcata febre roboratus est. Duos ex pueris nostris valetudinaria il12 febris invaserat, omnesque membrorum juncturas, ut x,. sederat: sed ab hac benedictione potati, sanati sunt.","english":"CHAPTER LX.\n\nConcerning the things that were done on my journey.\n\nThere had recently arisen an occasion for me to go to the territory of the city of Clermont to visit my mother. But fearing the infirmities that might come upon us, I presumed to take some of this dust, that is, from the tomb of the blessed bishop, and to carry it with me, so that when some illness had attacked any of our people, the power of the saint might come to their aid with its customary help. So when I came to my mother, at once a fever with dysentery seized one boy, wore him down, and consumed him, so that, with the use of food denied him, he was nourished by the fevers alone. On the third day, when these things were being done and it had been reported to me, I gave the dust, mixed in drink, to the dying boy, and immediately, with the fever put to flight and the pain calmed, he recovered. In those days I heard from bishop Veranus that at a certain time, while he was being burned by the heat of a quartan fever, he sought the basilica of the blessed Martin which was in that place, kept vigil, and was healed. But we, coming from this journey to Clermont, found bishop Avitus so gravely shaken by a tertian fever that even if he took any food, he would immediately throw it up; but when a drink was taken from this same pledge, the fever was trampled down and he was strengthened. A wasting fever had attacked two of our boys and all the joints of their limbs, as had been settled; but having drunk from this blessing, they were healed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":145,"ref":"p145","source":"Ego ipse in hoc itinere cum dolorem dentium graviter sustinerem [Hom., sentirem], et jam non solum ipsi dentes, sed orone caput venarum pulsibus, ac dolorum spiculis figeretur, ac tempora valide prosiHrent, hoc præsidium cspeLii, et mox dolore compresso convalui. theriacam inenarrabilem! o pigmentum ineffabilei o antidotum laudabile! o purgatorium, ut ita dicam, cœleste, quod medicorum vincit argutias, aromatum suavitates superat, unguentorumque omnium robora supercrescit! quod mundat ventrem ut agridiuln, pulmonem ut byssopus, ipsumque caput purgat, ut pereirum. Etiam non solum membra debilia solidat, sed, quod his omnibus majus est, ipsas asconscientiarum maculas abstergit ac levigat. Sufficiant ergo haec huic libello quae indita sunt. Tamen si adnuc miracula cernere meremur, placet ea alteri libello inseri, ut ea quae ostenduntur, non occuli, sed magis voci. bus debeant propalari. De caetero vero virtutem ejus deposcimus, ut qui talia praestat ex tumulo, nos jam a peccatis Deo mortuos suscitare dignetur mortis istius de sepulcro, ut in illu resurrectionis carnis nostræ tempore nobis obtineat indulgentiam, cum ille provehetur ad coronam.","english":"I myself, on this journey, when I was grievously suffering from pain in my teeth, and now not only the teeth themselves, but the whole head was being pierced by the pulsing of veins and the darts of pain, and my temples were throbbing violently, I took refuge in this protection, and at once, the pain being suppressed, I recovered. O ineffable theriac! O indescribable ointment! O praiseworthy antidote! O heavenly purgative, so to speak, which surpasses the subtleties of physicians, exceeds the sweetnesses of spices, and grows beyond the strength of all ointments! It cleanses the belly like agaric, the lung like hyssop, and purges the head itself like pepper. Indeed it not only strengthens weak limbs, but—what is greater than all these—it wipes away and smooths out the very stains of consciences. Let these things, then, that have been set down suffice for this little book. Yet if we are still deemed worthy to behold miracles, it pleases me that they be inserted into another little book, so that the things that are shown ought to be made known not to the eyes, but rather to voices. For the rest, however, we beseech his power, that he who grants such things from his tomb may deign to raise us, already dead to God through sins, from the sepulcher of this death, so that at the time of the resurrection of our flesh he may obtain for us forgiveness, when he is carried forth to the crown.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":146,"ref":"p146","source":"Explicit liber tertius.\n\nLIBER QUARTUS.\n\nPrologus.\n\nSaluberrimo nos hortatu Propheta et in alio psahno: Qui timentes Dominum magnificant (Psal. CXXXVIII, 17). Nihilominus et in alio psalmo: Qui timentes Dominum magnificant (Psal. XIV, 4), beatudini copulantur domus æternæ. Ergo perspicue patet intellectui humano quod admoneantur quique non solum immunes erimjuc, verumetiam noxialis criminis malo dediti, cultum reverenter reddere amicis Dei. Quæ res non solum in praesenti saeculo tribuit beneficium, verumetiam praestat et refrigerium in futuro. Nam cum saepe videamus virtutum insignia prodire de tumulis beatorum, non immerito commonemur, debitam eis honoris reverentiam impendere, a quibus non desistimus infirmitatum remedia Oagitare. Quorum precibus et ipsam peccaminum remissionem non dubitamus adipisci: et non modo hanc mereri, verum ab infernalibus suppliciis eorum interventu salvari. Confidimus enim quod sicut hic morborum genera resecant, ita illic saevas tormentorum poenas avertant; et sicut hic mitigant febres corporeas. ita illic. restinguant æternas; et quomodo hic mortuorum cadavera ad vitam resuscitant, ita illic delictorum maculas mundari suo interventu obtineant; ac sicut hic lurida lepræ ulcera sordentia mundant, ita illic peccato lepulLos, ex Acheronticis;stagnis manu injecta erutos vitæ aeternae restituant.","english":"Here ends the third book.\n\nTHE FOURTH BOOK.\n\nPrologue.\n\nThe Prophet urges us with most wholesome exhortation, and in another psalm: Those who fear the Lord glorify him. Likewise also in another psalm: Those who fear the Lord are joined to the blessedness of the eternal house. Therefore it is plainly evident to human understanding that all are admonished—not only those free from guilt, but also those given over to the evil of noxious crime—to render worship reverently to the friends of God. This thing not only bestows benefit in the present age, but also grants refreshment in the future. For since we often see the insignia of virtues come forth from the tombs of the blessed, we are not undeservedly admonished to pay them the due reverence of honor, from whom we do not cease to seek remedies for our infirmities. And by their prayers we do not doubt that we obtain even the remission of sins: and not only to merit this, but to be saved from infernal punishments by their intercession. For we trust that just as here they cut off the kinds of diseases, so there they avert the savage penalties of torments; and just as here they mitigate bodily fevers, so there they extinguish eternal ones; and just as here they raise the corpses of the dead to life, so there they obtain that the stains of sins be cleansed by their intercession; and just as here they cleanse the foul, filthy ulcers of leprosy, so there they restore to eternal life those leprous with sin, snatched from the Acherontic pools by the hand laid upon them.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":147,"ref":"p147","source":"Quocirca dum unusquisque laetificatur in gaudio proprio sub patrono, tunc impensius bonorem reddit debitum, cum se senserit ab infirmitate qua detinebatur ejus virtute mundatum: sicut nunc de beato ac toto orbi peculiari patrono Martino antistite et nos et innumeri populi sunt experti: et utinam ignavia mentis nostrae permitteret eum a sic venerari, sicut decet amicum Dci, qui tantis nos morborum oppressos generibus pierumque restituit sanitati.\n\nCAPUT PRIMUM.\n\nDe dolore ventris mei.\n\nNuperrimo autem tempora ventris dolorem incurri. Et licet non usquequaquc dabat solutionem, tamen doloris malum in illis intrancorum flexuosis recessibus vagabatur. Adhibui, fateor, sæpius balneas, atque res calidas super ipsas alvi torturas ligari faciebam, sed nihil mederi poterant infirmitati. Sexta etenim dies illuxerat, quod magis ac magis dolor invalescebat, cum mihi venit in memoriam, ante paucos annos, sicut in libro secundo bujus operis continetur scriptum (Cap. i ), me ab hoc dolore Sancti virtute fuisse sanatum. Accessi temerarius a ad locum sepulcri, projectusque solo orationem fudi, atque secretius a pendentibus velis unum sub vestimento injectum filum, crucis ab hoc signaculum in alvo depinxi: protinus dolore sedato, sanus abscessi.","english":"Wherefore, when each one rejoices in his own joy under his patron, then he renders the debt of honor more abundantly, when he has felt himself cleansed by his power from the infirmity by which he was held: as now both we and countless peoples have experienced concerning the blessed Martin, bishop and patron peculiar to the whole world: and would that the sloth of our mind permitted us to venerate him as is fitting for a friend of God, who has very often restored us to health when oppressed by so many kinds of diseases.\n\nCHAPTER ONE.\n\nConcerning the pain of my belly.\n\nBut in the most recent times I incurred a pain of the belly. And although it did not give relief altogether, nevertheless the evil of the pain wandered about in those winding recesses of the intestines. I applied, I confess, the baths rather often, and I caused hot substances to be bound over the very torments of the belly, but they could in no way heal the infirmity. For the sixth day had dawned, and the pain was growing stronger more and more, when it came into my memory that, a few years before, as is contained written in the second book of this work (Chapter 1), I had been healed from this pain by the power of the Saint. I approached rashly to the place of the tomb, and, prostrated on the ground, I poured out a prayer, and secretly, from the veils hanging there, I injected one thread under my clothing, and with the sign of the cross from it I marked my belly: immediately the pain was assuaged, and I departed well.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":148,"ref":"p148","source":"CAPUT II.\n\nDe lingua et labiis meis.\n\nQuodam vero tempore lingua mihi graviter irnguerat, ita ut plerumque dum loqui vellem, balbutire me faceret, quod non mihi sine improperio erat. Accessi autem ad tumulum Sancti, ac per lignum cancelli linguam impeditam traxi: protinus tumore compresso convalui. Intumuerat enim valde, et totum palati impleverat antrum. Deindo post diem ter' tium labium mibi exsilire graviter coepit. Accessi iterum quaerere sospitatem ad tumulum; tactoque labio a dependentibus velis, protinus stetit venae putsus. Et credo mibi haec ex abundantia sanguinis evenisse: uon tamen sanguinem minuere studui propter Sancti virtutem. Nullam LameD mihi ultra molestiam fecit haec causa.\n\nCAPUT Ill.\n\nDe puero a febre aanato.\n\nDenique puerulus parvulus gravabatur a febre, et exesis membris, cum nullum acciperet cibum, in hoc ' erat ut spiritum exhalaret. Cucurrit ad me pater cum lacryrnis: cui ego indicavi ut, delatum ad basilicaDI, super cum nocte tota vigilaret. Quod cum fecisset, statim puerum sanum per virtutem sancti AnListitis recepit...","english":"CHAPTER II.\n\nConcerning my tongue and lips.\n\nAt a certain time, indeed, my tongue had become seriously afflicted, so that frequently, when I wished to speak, it made me stammer, which was not without shame for me. I went, moreover, to the tomb of the Saint, and with the wood of the railing I touched my impeded tongue: immediately, the swelling being pressed down, I recovered. For it had swollen greatly, and had filled the whole cavity of the palate. Then, after the third day, my lip began to swell out severely. I went again to seek healing at the tomb; and when my lip had been touched by the hanging curtains, immediately the throbbing of the vein stopped. And I believe these things happened to me from an abundance of blood; nevertheless I did not strive to reduce the blood, on account of the Saint's power. This matter caused me no further trouble.\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nConcerning a boy healed from fever.\n\nFinally, a very little boy was afflicted by a fever, and with his limbs wasted, since he took no food, he was at the point of breathing his last. His father ran to me in tears; I instructed him that, having carried the boy to the basilica, he should keep vigil over him the whole night. When he had done this, he immediately received the boy back healthy through the power of the holy bishop...","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":149,"ref":"p149","source":"CAPUT Iv.\n\nDe contracto, et cæca, et tribus energuments\n\nAd festivitatem vero quae mense quimo celebratur, adveniens quidam; cujus digiti in mam contraxerant, oratione facta digitis directis abscessit. Mulier vero cæca post octo annos, prostrata solo coram Sancti sepulcro, illuminatis oculis, repedavit in locum suum. Tres tunc energumeni Sancti virtute mundati sunt.\n\nCAPUT V.\n\nDe servo Theodulfi.\n\nEo anno (An. 588), id est Childeberti regis i3, ad fcsUvitatem quae de beato ejus transitu celebratur, venit servus Theodulfi civis Turonici, custos suillæ a, qui dum nocte circa gregem creditum excubaret, ne qnidquam ex eo aut bestia raperet. aut fraus furis auferret, oculis subita caligine interfusis, lumen amisit. Qui oer sex annos in caecitate durans ad hanc festivitatem advenit; post tertium vero diem, Sancti virtute illuminatus, a domino est dimissus ingenuus.","english":"CHAPTER IV.\n\nConcerning a crippled man, and a blind woman, and three demoniacs.\n\nAt the festival, moreover, which is celebrated in the month of May, a certain man arrived, whose fingers had contracted in his hand; after prayer had been made, with his fingers straightened he departed. A blind woman, moreover, after eight years, having prostrated herself on the ground before the tomb of the Saint, with her eyes enlightened, returned to her own place. Three demoniacs were then cleansed by the power of the Saint.\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nConcerning the servant of Theodulf.\n\nIn that year (A.D. 588), that is, in the thirteenth year of King Childebert, there came to the festival which is celebrated for the blessed man's passing, a servant of Theodulf, a citizen of Tours, a swineherd, who, while he was keeping watch by night over the flock entrusted to him, lest either a beast snatch anything from it or the deceit of a thief carry it off, with a sudden darkness poured over his eyes, lost his sight. He, enduring in blindness for six years, came to this festival; but after the third day, enlightened by the power of the Saint, he was dismissed free by his master.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":150,"ref":"p150","source":"CAPUT VI.\n\nDe multis infirmitatibus sanatis.\n\nAnno quoque legis supradicti (An. 589), adveniente solemnitate Saucli, duodecim paralytici directi, tres cæci illuminati, quinque energumeni emundati sunt. Adfuit huic festivitati et Aredius, Lemovicinæ urbis abba, cujus in superioribus libellis meminimush, per quem Dominus paralyticam unam, quae per octo annos carrucae superposita in atrio beati Confessoris decubuerat, directis vestigiis, re6tauravit. Nam asserebat ipse vir Dei sensisse se quasi beati Martini manum, cum infirmae membra, imposito signo cruc is, tactu salutari palparet. Advenerat etiam in hac festivitate et Florentianus il19 major cum Romulfo palatii comite. Quibus non parva admiratio fuit de gloria Confessoris, per quem Dominus talia nanc miracula dignatus est operari.\n\nCAPUT VIt.\n\nDe uva apud Galliciam.\n\nEt quia Florentiani majoris memoriam fecimus, quid ab eo didicerim nefas puto Laceri. Tempore quodam causa legationis Galliciam adiit, atque ad Mironis regis præsentiam accedens, negotia paterecit injuncta. Erat cnim eo tempore Miro rex in civitate ilia, in qua decessor ejus basilicam sancH Martini aedificaverat, sicut in libra primo hujus operis exposuimus d. Ante hujus aedis porticum, vitium camera extensa per traduces dependentibus uvis,, quasi picta vernabat. Sub hac enim erat semita, quæ ad sacrae ædis valvas peditem deduceba1.","english":"CHAPTER VI.\n\nConcerning many infirmities healed.\n\nAlso in the year of the aforesaid king (589), when the solemnity of the Sauclus came, twelve paralytics were restored, three blind were enlightened, five demoniacs were cleansed. There was present at this festival also Aredius, abbot of the city of Limoges, whom we have mentioned in the earlier books, through whom the Lord restored with straight steps a certain paralytic woman, who for eight years had lain upon a cart in the atrium of the blessed Confessor. For the man of God himself asserted that he had felt, as it were, the hand of the blessed Martin, when he touched the limbs of the weak woman with a healing touch, having imposed the sign of the cross. There had come also to this festival Florentianus the mayor of the palace, with Romulfus, count of the palace. To them it was no small wonder concerning the glory of the Confessor, through whom the Lord deigned to work such great miracles.\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nConcerning a vine in Galicia.\n\nAnd because we have made mention of Florentianus the mayor of the palace, I think it wrong to pass over in silence what I learned from him. At a certain time, on the business of an embassy, he went to Galicia, and coming into the presence of King Miro, he set forth the matters enjoined upon him. For King Miro was at that time in that city in which his predecessor had built a basilica of Saint Martin, as we have set out in the first book of this work. Before the portico of this house, a vine spread out over a chamber, with grapes hanging down through the trellises, flourished as though painted. For beneath it was a path which led the traveler on foot to the doors of the sacred house.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":151,"ref":"p151","source":"Cumque rex sub hac praeteriens orationis gratia hoc adiret, templum dixit suis: Cavete ne contingatis unum ex his botrionibus, ne forsitan offensam sancti AnUstitis incurratis. Omnia enim quae in hoc habentur atrio ipsi sacrata sunt. Hoc audiens unus puerorum, ait intra se: Utrum sint haec huic Sancto sacrata an non, ignoro. Unum scio quod, deliberatio animi mei est ahis vesci. Et statim, injecta manu, caudam botrionis caepit incidere, protinusque dextera ejus adhærens camerac, arente lacerto, diriguit. Erat enin mimus regis, qui ei per verba jocularia laetitiam erat solitus elcitare. Sed non eum adjuvit cachinnus aliquis, neque praetigium artis suæ; sed cogente dolore, voces dare cœpit ac dicere: Succurrite viri misero, subvenite oppresso, ferte levamen appenso e, et sancti antistitis Martini virtutem pro me depreca\" mini, qui tali exitu crucior, tali plaga affligor, tali incisione disjungor. Egressus quoque rex, cum rem quae acta fuerat didicisset, tanto furore contra puerum est accensus, ut ejus manus vellet abscidere, si a suis prohibitus non fuisset. Dicentibus tamen præterea famulis: Noli, o rea, judicio Dei tuam adjungere ultionem, ne forte injuriam quam minaris puero, in te retorqueas.","english":"And when the king, passing by for the sake of prayer, was approaching this place, he said to his men: Take care that you do not touch one of these clusters, lest perhaps you incur the offense of the holy bishop. For all things that are contained in this courtyard are consecrated to him. Hearing this, one of the boys said within himself: Whether these things are consecrated to this saint or not, I do not know. One thing I know, that it is the resolve of my mind to eat from them. And immediately, putting out his hand, he began to cut off the tail of a cluster, and at once his right hand, clinging to the chamber, withered and stiffened with a shriveled arm. For he was the king's mime, who was accustomed to stir up laughter in him with jesting words. But no guffaw helped him, nor the trick of his art; but compelled by pain, he began to cry out and say: Help a wretched man, men; come to the aid of one oppressed; bring relief to one suspended; and pray for me the power of the holy bishop Martin, who am tormented by such an end, afflicted by such a blow, severed by such a cutting. The king also, having gone out, when he had learned what had been done, was inflamed with such fury against the boy that he wished to cut off his hand, if he had not been prevented by his men. Yet when his servants further said: Do not, O king, add your vengeance to the judgment of God, lest perhaps the injury which you threaten against the boy you turn back upon yourself.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":152,"ref":"p152","source":"Tunc ille compunctus corde, ingressus basilicam, prostratus coram sancto altari, cum lacrymis preces fudit ad Dominum: nec ante a pavimento surrexit, quam flumen oculorum hujus paginam delicti deleret. Quo a vinculo quo nexus fuerat absoluto, ac in basilicam ingresso, rex ele vatur a solo, et sic recipiens incolumem famulum palatium repetivit. Testabatur autem major praefatus hæc se ab ipsius regis relatione, sicut actum narravimus, cognovisse. Sic enim gloriosus Pontifex suam illustrat urbem miraculis, ut deesse non sentiatur alienis.\n\nCAPUT VIII.\n\nDe basilica Sancti apud urbem Santonicam.\n\nPraesenti vero anno, Palladius Santonicae urbis episcopus, hujus sancti Confessoris reliquias petiit. Construxerat enim in ejus honorem basilicam, quam his pignoribus cousecravi t, mcruitque ibi suscipere miracula quae saepius urbs propria habet experta. Nam post duorum aut trium mensium curricula, litteras ejus accepi, in quibus indicavit tres paralyticos contractis pedibus advenisse; qui statim ut in basi licam ingressi orationem fuderunt, directis vestigiis, sanitati sunt redditi. Duo eæci in eo loco lumen re cipere facta oratione meruerunt, et amplius quam duodecim a febre frigoritica detenti, depulso tremore convaluerunt.","english":"Then he, stricken in heart, entered the basilica, and prostrate before the holy altar he poured out prayers to the Lord with tears; nor did he rise from the floor before a flood of tears from his eyes erased the record of his offense. When he had been loosed from the bond by which he had been bound and had entered the basilica, the king was lifted from the ground, and so, receiving his servant back in safety, he returned to the palace. Moreover, the aforementioned elder testified that he had learned these things from the account of the king himself, just as we have narrated they were done. For so does the glorious Pontiff illuminate his own city with miracles, that he is not felt to be absent from others.\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nConcerning the basilica of the Saint at the city of Saintes.\n\nBut in the present year, Palladius, bishop of the city of Saintes, sought relics of this holy Confessor. For he had built a basilica in his honor, which he consecrated with these pledges, and he merited to receive there miracles which the city of the saint himself has quite often experienced. For after the course of two or three months, I received his letter, in which he indicated that three paralytic men with contracted feet had come; who, as soon as they entered the basilica and poured out prayer, with their steps made straight, were restored to health. Two blind men in that place merited to receive light after prayer was made, and more than twelve who were held by a shivering fever, with the trembling driven off, recovered.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":153,"ref":"p153","source":"CAPUTIX.,\n\nDe duobus dysentericis.\n\nDuo de pueris nostris, clericus seilicet Dagobar. dus, et laicus Theodorus, dysenteriam cum febre patiebantur; in tantumque lassati [Gat., Jalati] morbo erant, ut non aliter nisi manibus aliorum, cum digestionis necessitas advenisset, e strato sublevarentur. Sed de sepuleri pulvere hausto, statim convaluerunt.\n\nCAPUT X.\n\nDe patenis quas Sanctus exhibuit.\n\nEst apud nos patem colore sapphirino, quam dieitur Sanctus de Maximi imperatoris a thesauro detulisse de quasuper frigoriticos virtus saepe procedit. Nam in accessu febrium quis positus, qui cum tremore aeri solet, si advenerit b, et de ea aquam hauserit, mox sanatur. Eat et apud Condatensem vicum, alia quoque patena a Sancto exhibita metallocrystallina c, simile infirmis beneficium præbens, si fideliter expetatur. Bodillo unus de notariis nostris, cum stomaohi lassitudine animo turbatus erat, ria ut nec scribere juxta consuetudinem a valeret Mec excipere, et quae ei dictabantur vix poterat re. censere, tunc cum sæpius verbis increparetur, super hanc beati Virt patenam, quam nobiscum eMe dixisuus, aquam fudit, ipsamque ore transponit. Mox sensui suo redditus, opus officii sagacius quam conlUevcrat, expediebat.","english":"CHAPTER IX.\n\nConcerning two sufferers from dysentery.\n\nTwo of our boys, the cleric Dagobard and the layman Theodore, were suffering from dysentery with fever; and they were so weakened by the disease that, when the need of digestion came upon them, they could not be lifted from their bed except by the hands of others. But when dust from the tomb had been drunk, they immediately recovered.\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nConcerning the patens which the Saint displayed.\n\nThere is among us a paten of sapphire color, which the Saint is said to have brought from the treasury of the emperor Maximus, and from it the power often comes forth upon those suffering from chills. For if anyone beset by the onset of fevers, who is wont to shiver in the air, should come and draw water from it, he is presently healed. And there is also at the village of Condat another paten, of metal resembling crystal, displayed by the Saint, offering a like benefit to the sick, if it is sought in faith. Bodillo, one of our notaries, when he was troubled in mind by weariness of the stomach, so that he could neither write as usual nor take down dictation, and could scarcely review what was dictated to him, then, when he was often rebuked with words, poured water over this paten of the blessed Martin, which we have mentioned as being with us, and put it to his mouth. Straightway, restored to his senses, he dispatched the work of his office more keenly than he had been accustomed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":154,"ref":"p154","source":"CAPUT XI.\n\nDe Bliderico, cui filii MOM erant dati.\n\nSed quid InirulD, si sensum adversitate turbatum reddat hominibus, qui saepius sterilitatem in fecunditatem convertit? Blidericus e quidam, Carnoteoi territorii civis, accepta uxore, ut dono Dei procreationis suae prole ditaretur orabat; sed nihil ex ea germinis merebatur accipere. Tricesimus etenim annus curriculum expedierat, uxore sterili permanente, cum vir saluberrime pro animæ commodo tractans, ait uxori: Ecce sæculum quo utirnur praeteriens est, et nulla inter nos soboles gignitur, quae, nubis deficientibus, congestum laboris nostri debeat possidere. Accedam, inquit, ad basilicam sancti Martini, et eam faciam hæredem mihi, ut, liberis abnegatis, vel cam eadem quæ habere potero possideam in futuro. Consens it mulier sapient viri prudentis consilio. Nec mora, proceditur ad basilicam Sancii, fusaque oratione invitat abbatem domi secum accedere. Quo accedente, tradidit ei omnem possessioncn1 suam, dicens: Sint haec omnia penes sancti Martini ditionem quae habere videor, et Loc tantum exinde utar, ut de vis dum vixero alar. Consignatisque rebus coegit abbatem manere ibi. Mirum dictu! post triginta, ut diximus, annorum curricula, in ipsa qua res suas basilicæ tradidit nocte cognovit uxorem suam, quæ concipiens peperit filium. Sed et deinceps alios habuit. Quod Ron 'itur hoc virtute Sancti praestitum huic vko fuisse.","english":"CHAPTER XI.\n\nConcerning Blideric, to whom sons were given.\n\nBut what wonder if he restores a mind disturbed by adversity to men, who has more often turned barrenness into fruitfulness? A certain Blideric, a citizen of the territory of Chartres, having taken a wife, prayed that he might be enriched by the gift of God with offspring from his procreation; but he deserved to receive no seed from her. For the thirtieth year had completed its course, with the wife remaining barren, when the man, reflecting most wholesomely for the benefit of his soul, said to his wife: Behold, the world which we use is passing away, and no offspring is begotten between us, who, when we fail, ought to possess the accumulated fruit of our labor. I shall go, he said, to the basilica of Saint Martin, and I shall make it my heir, so that, with children denied, I may at least possess with it in the future what I am able to have. The woman consented to the counsel of her prudent husband. Without delay, they proceed to the basilica of the Saint, and, having poured out prayer, he invites the abbot to come to his home with him. When he had come, he handed over all his possession to him, saying: Let all these things which I seem to have be in the dominion of Saint Martin, and let me use only so much from them as I need for my sustenance while I live. And when the matters were signed, he compelled the abbot to remain there. Wonderful to tell! after the course of thirty years, as we have said, on that very night on which he handed over his goods to the basilica, he knew his wife, who, conceiving, bore a son. But afterward he also had others. It is believed that this was granted to this man by the power of the Saint.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":155,"ref":"p155","source":"Verumtamen non refragavit acceptis liliis promissionem bomo ille, sed eis alia loca tribuens, que primum SanCto largitus fuerat confirmavit.\n\nCAPUT XII.\n\nDe caeca apud Turnacensem villam.\n\nApud Turnacensem I vero Cenomanici territorii villam, quae nunc in ipsius sanctae basilicae ditionibus retinetur, mulier quaedam diuturna caecitate detenta, et senio praegravata, ad oratorium villæ ipsius residens, dum stipem quæreret, ac assidue sancti Martini nomen invocaret, quadam nocte Dominica cœperonioculi ejus a dolore compungi. Tunc illa prostram coram saneto altari, erumpente m123 sanguine, lumen recepit. Verumtamen rełiquiæ in ipso loco beatissimorum apostolorum, id est Petri et Pauli, habentur: sect hæc asserebat virtute sancti Antistitis se fuisse sanatam. Verumtamen fides nostra retinet in: multorum sanctorum virtutibus unum Dominum operari; et nec illos disjunctos virtutibus, quos cœlo pares, miracułis Dominus æquales reddit in terris.","english":"Nevertheless, that man did not reject the promise attached to the lilies he had received, but by assigning them other places, he confirmed what he had first bestowed upon the saint.\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nConcerning the blind woman at the estate of Tournay.\n\nAt the estate of Tournay, in the territory of Le Mans, which is now held within the jurisdiction of that holy basilica, a certain woman, afflicted with long-standing blindness and weighed down by old age, sat at the oratory of that estate, seeking alms and continually invoking the name of Saint Martin, when on a certain Sunday night her eyes began to be pricked by pain. Then she prostrated herself before the holy altar, and as blood burst forth, she received her sight. Yet the relics of the most blessed apostles, that is, of Peter and Paul, are kept in that same place; but she declared that she had been healed by the power of the holy bishop. Nevertheless, our faith holds that in the virtues of many saints one Lord works; and those whom the Lord makes equal to heaven and equal in miracles on earth are not separated in virtues.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":156,"ref":"p156","source":"CAPlIT. XIII.\n\nDe manu arida restitum.\n\nAd festivitatem vero illam, cui Aunacharius Antissiodorensis urbis pontifex adfuit, quidam manum aridam contractamque detulit, sed post diem tertium festivitatis, redintegratam domi reportavit.\n\nCAPUT XIV.\n\nDe Baudegisilo debili.\n\nBaudegisilus quidam ex Andegavensis urbis termorio, Baudolfi filius, vici Geinensis \" incola, dum humoris saevi jaculo sauciatur, debilitatu8 occubuit. Isque eum a patre paupere sine operis bene6cio pasceretur, ut basilicæ sancti Martini limina oscularetur b, patrem lacrymis obortis efflagitat. Qui nee mora in navi positum, quia vehi altera evectione non poterat, ante pedes Sancti, id est, foris sepukrum, tilium devotus clposuit. Qui per dies aliquot orationi vaans, et Sancti auxilium poscens, amota debilitate sanitati restituitur, sicque cum genitore domi incolumis restitutus est.","english":"CHAPTER XIII.\n\nConcerning the withered hand restored.\n\nAt that festival, moreover, at which Aunacharius, bishop of the city of Auxerre, was present, a certain man brought a withered and contracted hand, but after the third day of the festival he carried it home restored.\n\nCHAPTER XIV.\n\nConcerning Baudegisilus the crippled.\n\nA certain Baudegisilus, from the territory of the city of Angers, son of Baudolfus, an inhabitant of the village of Geinensis, when he was wounded by the dart of a savage humor, lay down crippled. And since he was fed by his poor father without the benefit of work, he implored his father with tears welling up that he might kiss the threshold of the basilica of Saint Martin. He, without delay, placed him in a boat, since he could not be conveyed by any other means of transport, and devoutly set him down before the feet of the Saint, that is, outside the tomb. He, devoting himself to prayer for several days and seeking the aid of the Saint, with his crippling removed was restored to health, and thus with his father he was restored safe and sound at home.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":157,"ref":"p157","source":"CAPUT XV.\n\nDe homine qui ceran, transmisit.\n\nIn Ausiensi quoque territorio erat homo, Caelestis nomine, cui multa i124 erant apum alvearia: ex quibus cum examen egressum alta eonscendens longe compeletet, et ille sequens, nullum prorsus suscipiendi obtineret etfectum, prostratus solo sancti Martini invocat nomen, dicens: Si virtus tua, beatissime Confessor, hoc examen retinere voluerit, eumque ditioni meae reddiderit, quae in posterum ex eo procreata fuerint, mel usibus meis sumam, ceram vero ad luminaria basilicae tuae cum omni soliditate dirigam. Haec effatus, cum adhuc terrae decumberet, statim examen apum super unam arbusculam, quae viro erat proxima, decidit et insedit, collectumque et u alveare reconditum domi detulit: de quo infra duos aut tres annos multa congregavit. Ex quibus cum jalu amplius quam ducentas cerae libras aggregatas haberet, rumor hostilitatis obortus est. At ille IIC votum suum perire cerneret, ceram fossa humo operuit. Pace quoque reddita, diaconum nostrum, ut eam peteret, accersivit. Erat tunc cum eo puer, qui renum gravissimum perferebat dolorem. Qui accedens ad virum, et cognoscens ab ore ejus quæ gesta fuerant, ceram quae in terra latebat detegi jubet.","english":"CHAPTER XV.\n\nConcerning the man who sent wax.\n\nIn the territory of Auxerre as well there was a man named Caelestis, who had many beehives. When a swarm had gone out from them and, rising high, was flying far away, and he, following it, obtained no success at all in catching it, he cast himself on the ground and invoked the name of Saint Martin, saying: If your power, most blessed Confessor, should wish to hold back this swarm and restore it to my authority, whatever shall be produced from it hereafter I will take the honey for my own uses, but the wax I will send with all firmness for the lights of your basilica. Having said this, while he was still lying on the ground, immediately the swarm of bees settled and came to rest on a small tree that was near the man, and he gathered it and, having hidden it in a hive, brought it home; from it, within two or three years, he gathered much. When from these he had collected more than two hundred pounds of wax, a report of hostility arose. But he, seeing that his vow would be lost, covered the wax with earth in a ditch. When peace had also been restored, he summoned our deacon to fetch it. There was then with him a boy who was suffering a very severe pain in the kidneys. He, coming to the man and learning from his mouth what had been done, ordered the wax that lay hidden in the earth to be uncovered.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":158,"ref":"p158","source":"Puer vero qui dolorem, quem diximus, paLieba tur, accepLo sarculo u terram foderet, ait: Si tu propitius es, sancte Martine, ad hoc munus hominis hujus aspiciendum, contingat virtus tua renes meos, et sit mihi salus cum hanc detexero ceram. Cumque percuasisset sarculo terram, sonuit ossiculum reuum ejus, et statim omnis dolor ablatus est; sicque illcolumis cum hac cera beatæ basilicae præsentatus est.\n\nCAPUT XVi.\n\nDe absolutione vincti.\n\nHomo. quidam urbis Turonicae judici culpabilis exstitit, quem in vincula compactum custodiri praecepit. Advenientibus autem diebus sanctis dominicæ resurrectionis, jussit eum judex in ulterius Ligeris fluvii littus in alia retrudi custodia. Ducebatur ergo non solum catenis coita revinctus, verum etiam post tergum manibus colligatis: comque ad ripam nominati amnis advenissent, et navigium qoo transire deberent præstolarentur, atque ille sancti Martini auxilium incessabiliter flagitaret, visum est repente custodibus, quasi ab aliquo capite verberati fuissent. Protinusque in terram ruunt, ac catenæ quae vinctum teneuant hominem confractae sunt, laxatæ veru corrigiae de manibus solvuntur. Ipse autem liberum se sentiens, decumbenlibus adhuc solu hominibus, secessit ab eis, et sanctae ecelesiae limen ingressus est, sicque a judice relaxatur. Ferebant enim nonnulli his diebus et apud Pictavensem urbem vinctos ab ergastulo carcerali fuisse resolutos.","english":"But the boy who was suffering the pain we have mentioned, when he took up the hoe and dug into the earth, said: \"If you are favorable, holy Martin, and if your power is to look upon this man's offering, let your power touch my loins, and let it be my healing when I uncover this wax.\" And when he had struck the earth with the hoe, the little bone of his loins made a sound, and immediately all the pain was taken away; and so, unharmed, he was presented with this wax at the blessed basilica.\n\nCHAPTER XVI.\n\nConcerning the release of a prisoner.\n\nA certain man of the city of Tours was found guilty before the judge, who ordered that he be bound in chains and kept under guard. But when the holy days of the Lord's resurrection came, the judge ordered him to be confined in another custody on the far bank of the river Loire. So he was led, bound not only with chains wrapped around him, but also with his hands tied behind his back; and when they had come to the bank of the said river and were waiting for a boat by which they were to cross, and he was ceaselessly imploring the aid of Saint Martin, it suddenly seemed to the guards as though they had been struck on the head by someone. And at once they fall to the ground, and the chains that held the bound man were broken, and the straps, loosened, were released from his hands. But he, feeling himself free, while the men were still lying there, withdrew from them and entered the threshold of the holy church, and so he was released by the judge. For some were reporting that in those days, at the city of Poitiers as well, prisoners had been released from the prison's dungeon.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":159,"ref":"p159","source":"Quod ambigi non potest, quia unius Confessoris virtus utramque urbem sacris potuit illustrare miraculis.\n\nCAPUT XVII.\n\nDe puero cœco.\n\nPuerulus parvulus, nomine Leudovaldus c; servus cujusdam Baudeleifi, de vico Andegavensi, cui Crovio antiquitas nomen indidit; postquam renatus ex aqua et Spiritu sancto cum reliquis infantibus ludum in platea exercens, ut aetas illa patitur, huc illucque discurreret, subito commotus cum impetu ventus, et pulverem elevans, oculos infantis implevit. Qui cum a caecitate percussus doloribus cruciaretur, apparuit aviae ejus vir quidam per somnium, taliter eam instruens: Vade, inquit, ad basilicam sancti Martini, et recipiet visum puer iste. Nec morata wulier, fide plena venit ad festivitatem beati Viri, recepitque illuminatum virtute Pontificis nepotem suum.\n\nCAPUT XVIII.\n\nDe puella cæca.\n\nHujus etenim urbis territorii puella, Viliogundis vocabulo, simili conditione caecatur. Dum enim cum reliquis puellulis per stratas villæ ludum exercendo discurreret, venti violentia pulvis elevatus opplevit oculos ejus. Quae statim doloribus vexata, petiit parentes suos, ut eam ad basilicam sancti Martini deducerent. Quo facto, protinus ut orationem pro ea Cuderunt, illuminata est. Nobis quoque egredientibus de sanctis missarum solemniis occurrerunt simui præfatus puer atque puella, dicentes se ipsa hora lumen virtute beati Antistitis recepisse.","english":"There can be no doubt of this, since the power of one Confessor was able to illuminate both cities with sacred miracles.\n\nCHAPTER XVII.\n\nConcerning the blind boy.\n\nA very little boy named Leudovald, a slave of a certain Baudeleif, from a village of Angers which antiquity named Crovio, after he had been reborn of water and the Holy Spirit, was playing a game in the street with the other children, and, as that age allows, was running here and there, when suddenly a wind arose with violence and, raising the dust, filled the child's eyes. And when, struck by blindness, he was tormented by pains, a certain man appeared to his grandmother in a dream, instructing her as follows: \"Go,\" he said, \"to the basilica of Saint Martin, and this boy will receive his sight.\" The woman did not delay, but came with full faith to the festival of the blessed man, and received her grandson enlightened by the power of the Pontiff.\n\nCHAPTER XVIII.\n\nConcerning the blind girl.\n\nFor a girl in the territory of this same city, by the name of Viliogundis, was blinded in a similar circumstance. For while she was running about playing with the other little girls through the streets of the village, the dust raised by the violence of the wind filled her eyes. She, immediately vexed by pains, asked her parents to lead her to the basilica of Saint Martin. This done, as soon as they had offered prayer for her, she was enlightened. And as we were coming out from the solemnities of the mass, the aforementioned boy and girl met us together, saying that they had received the light at that very hour by the power of the blessed Bishop.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":160,"ref":"p160","source":"Quod nobis magnum præstitit gaudium credentibus, quod nos virtus beati Confessoris visitare dignata sit.\n\nCAPUT XIX.\n\nDe contracto et cæco.\n\nLitoveus * autem quidam, ex infantia sua membris debilis, accedente febre cæcatus est: sed ad superiorem veniens festivitatem, directis membris, lumine tamen adhuc dempto discessit. Sed cum ad hanc iterum regressus fuisset solemnitatem, excmpUs tenebris, lumen ei clarum exoritur\n\nCAPUT Xx.\n\nItem de alio cæco.\n\nIn bac etiam festivitate et LeudardM a, servus Emnerii Namneticae urbis diaconi, cum per aex annos cæcitatis fuisset catena constrictus, ad basilicam accedens, virtute beati Confessoris illuminatus est. Per visionem enim somnii admonitus fuerat ut buussancti auxilia flagitaret Antistitis.\n\nCAPUT XXI.\n\nDe exlogiis quas Motharius civis Turonicus sustulit.\n\nQuidam de civibus Turonicis, dum ad rc. gis properaret occursum, vas cnm vino, unumque panem ad sepulcrum una mansurum nocte deposuit, ut scilicet in itinere positus hoc haberet salutis præsidium. Quibus exinde assumptis, iter carpere caepit. Factum est autem ut metatum requirens, hominis cujusdam ingrederetur hospitium, deposi. Usque sarcinis, mulier quae habebat spiritum immoodum, beati Martini adventum vocibus immensis annuntiare coepit, et dicere: Quid nos persequeris, Sancte? quid nos crucias, serve Dei?","english":"This brought us great joy as believers, because the power of the blessed Confessor deigned to visit us.\n\nCHAPTER XIX.\n\nConcerning the crippled and blind man.\n\nA certain Litoveus, weak in his limbs from infancy, was struck blind by an accompanying fever; but coming to the earlier festival, he departed with his limbs straightened, though his sight was still withheld. But when he had returned again to this solemnity, freed from the darkness, a bright light rose upon him.\n\nCHAPTER XX.\n\nLikewise concerning another blind man.\n\nAt this festival also Leudardus, slave of Emnerius, deacon of the city of Nantes, who had been bound by the chain of blindness for six years, approached the basilica and was enlightened by the power of the blessed Confessor. For he had been warned through a vision of a dream to seek the aid of this holy Bishop.\n\nCHAPTER XXI.\n\nConcerning the provisions which Motharius, a citizen of Tours, took up.\n\nA certain one of the citizens of Tours, while he was hastening to meet the king, deposited a vessel of wine and one loaf at the tomb, to remain there for one night, so that, being on his journey, he might have this as a safeguard of salvation. Then, having taken these up, he began to pursue his journey. It happened, however, that seeking lodging, he entered the guest-house of a certain man, and having set down his baggage, the woman who had an unclean spirit began to announce the arrival of the blessed Martin with immense cries, and to say: Why do you pursue us, holy one? Why do you torment us, servant of God?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":161,"ref":"p161","source":"Tunc hospes ille qui venerat, accepto calice, paululumque vini de illo vase auferens, frustum benedicti panis effractum posuit in eo. Quod ubi mulier illa quae debacchabatur accepit, mox, cum sanguine ejecto dæmonio, salvata est. Alia in eodem loco mulier quæ diu a frigore febrium aegrotabat, accepto ab bac benedictiorie modico, mox ut sumpsit, sanata est.\n\n'CAPUT XXII.\n\nDe contracto directo.\n\nSilluvius e incola Bajocassinus cum jn rure positus operaretur quiddam, commoto vento, pavore perculsus, tremere coepit, ac membris omnibus deslilui, vociferari etiam, et sibi mortem imminere testabatur. Interea concurrentibus vicinis ad spectaculum tale i, ipse inter voces et ululatus, contracUs nervis, debilitatur ad integrum; et non solum ei usus aurium denegatur, verumetiam et ipso lumine caruit oculorum. Post quindecim vero annos dum in hac infelicitate degeret, ad festivitatem sancti Martini adveniens, solidatis membris, oculisque receptis, abscessit.","english":"Then that stranger who had come, taking the cup and drawing a little wine from that vessel, placed in it a broken piece of blessed bread. As soon as that woman who was raving received it, at once, with blood expelled along with the demon, she was healed. Another woman in the same place, who had long been ill with the chill of fevers, received a little of this blessing, and as soon as she took it, she was healed.\n\nCHAPTER XXII.\n\nConcerning the contracted man made straight.\n\nSilluvius, an inhabitant of Bayeux, while he was in the countryside doing some work, was struck with terror when the wind rose, and began to tremble, and to be weakened in all his limbs, and even to cry out and declare that death was imminent for him. Meanwhile, as his neighbors ran together to such a spectacle, he, amid shouts and wailings, with his sinews contracted, was wholly disabled; and not only was the use of his ears denied him, but he also lost the very light of his eyes. But after fifteen years, while he lived in this misfortune, coming to the festival of Saint Martin, with his limbs made sound and his eyes recovered, he departed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":162,"ref":"p162","source":"CAPUT XXIII.\n\nDe cæca ac debili sanatis.\n\nNec dissimili virtute mulier Ermegundis, Andecavensis civis, vici incola Croviensis I, contracta ac caeca, in hac festivitate directa, illuloinataque discessit. Sed et Charimundus, ex Bricilonno debilia veniens, virtute beati Antistitis redintegratus est.\n\nCAPUT XXIV.\n\nDe plurimis cœcis energumenisque sanatis.\n\nIn hujus etiam solemnitatis die virtutem nonnulli, cooperante Christi gratia, persenseruut. Nam Leodemundus caecus post septem annos ad basilicam praefati Antistitis veniens, visum recepit. Et tres in.. super alii caeci i in hac festivitate vis.um per opem beati Antistitis receperunt, et energumeni plerique mundati sunt:\n\nCAPUT XXV\n\n. De puella a febre sanata.\n\nLeonis presbyteri nostri vernacula, cum.d villalam urbi proximam parentalibus ulnis deportata seeessisset, vi febris opprimitur, et die ac nocte valde commota in mortis discrimine cernitur. Quam videns presbyter exanimari violentia morbi, nocte ascenso equite (Ed., equo], ad basilicam sancti Confessoris accessit, pulsansque ostium cellulæ, in qua aedituus quiescebat, virum suscitare nequivit. Cumque basilicam sanctam ingredi non valeret, coram absida sepulcri fudi orationem, collegitque parumper de pulvere terreno, quod secum fide plenus evexit, eumque dilutum, ut puellulae ad bibendum protulit, protinus febris abscessit.","english":"CHAPTER XXIII.\n\nConcerning a blind woman and a weak man healed.\n\nNor was it by a power unlike this that the woman Ermegundis, a citizen of Andecavis, an inhabitant of the village of Croviensis, who was crippled and blind, was directed to this festival and departed healed. But Charimundus also, coming from Bricilonnum weak, was restored by the power of the blessed Bishop.\n\nCHAPTER XXIV.\n\nConcerning many blind and possessed persons healed.\n\nOn the day of this solemnity as well, several persons experienced the power, with the grace of Christ cooperating. For Leodemundus, blind, coming to the basilica of the aforesaid Bishop after seven years, received his sight. And three other blind persons besides received sight on this festival through the aid of the blessed Bishop, and very many possessed persons were cleansed.\n\nCHAPTER XXV.\n\nConcerning a girl healed of a fever.\n\nThe home-born slave girl of our priest Leo, when she had withdrawn to a small villa near the city, carried in her parents' arms, was overcome by the violence of a fever, and, greatly agitated day and night, was seen to be in danger of death. The priest, seeing her wasting away from the violence of the disease, mounted his horse by night and came to the basilica of the holy Confessor, and knocking at the door of the cell in which the sacristan was resting, he could not rouse the man. And since he was unable to enter the holy basilica, he poured out a prayer before the apse of the tomb, and gathered a little of the earth's dust, which, full of faith, he carried away with him, and when it was diluted and brought to the little girl to drink, the fever at once departed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":163,"ref":"p163","source":"CAPUT XXVI.\n\nDe carcerarii. absolutis.\n\n11M Faerat nobis causa quaedam Childeberti regis adire præsentiam. Pergentibus quoque nobis, iter per pagum Rhemensem aggressi sumus, reperimusque hominem quemdam, qui nobis relatu suo patefactum carcerem hujus urbis, ih quo inter reliquos vinctos hujus ramulus tenebatur, Martini virtute fuisse dicebat; vinctosque ab ergastulo absolutos, Iiberosque abscessisse narravit: Erat enim hujusmodi carcer ita tectus, ut super struem tignorum axes validi superpositi pulpitarentur i, ac desuper, quieosdem opprimerent. insignes fuerant lapides collocati. Nihilominus et ostium carceris sera ferro munita, obducto clave pessulo obserabatur: sed virtus Antistitis, at ipse relator asseruit, lapides dimovit, disjecit pulpita, catenas confregit, et trabem quae vinctorum coarctabat pedes, aperuit, ac nec reserato ostio homiveR per aera sublevatos, foris tecto patente pro, duxit, dicens: Ego sum Martinus miles Christi, absolutor vester. Abscedite cum pace, et abite securi. Sed cum Los ad regem accedentes, virtutis hujus diffamaremus miraculum, affirmavit rei quosdam ex his qui absoluti fuerant ad se venisse, atque compositionem Bsco debitam, quam illi fredum a vocant, a se fuisse reis indultam. Hoc antem factum est ante quatuor festivitatis dies (An. 59t), in memorati regis anno i 6.","english":"CHAPTER XXVI. Concerning the prisoners set free.\n\nThere was a certain case of King Childebert that compelled us to go into his presence. As we were pressing on, we took our journey through the district of Reims, and we found a certain man who by his account made known to us that the prison of this city, in which among the other bound men this little branch was held, had been opened by the power of Martin; and he told us that the prisoners had been released from the jail and had gone away free. For this prison was roofed in such a way that over a pile of beams strong planks were laid across, and above these, to press them down, notable stones had been placed. Nevertheless the door of the prison also, secured with an iron lock, was barred with a key-driven bolt; but the power of the bishop, as the same informant asserted, moved the stones, scattered the planks, shattered the chains, and opened the beam that cramped the feet of the bound men, and with the door not unlocked, he brought the men out through the air, lifted up, with the roof lying open, saying: I am Martin, soldier of Christ, your deliverer. Depart in peace, and go in safety. But when we, coming to the king, spread abroad the report of this miracle of power, he affirmed that certain of those who had been set free had come to him, and that the composition due for the offense, which they call fredum, had been remitted by him to the guilty. Now this was done four days before the festival (in the year 591), in the sixteenth year of the aforesaid king.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":164,"ref":"p164","source":"CAPUT XXVII.\n\nDe servo Nonnichii episcopi a debilitate sanato.\n\nAdveniente autem festo beati Martini, Nonnichius Namneticorum i130 pontifex ad basilicam Sancti advenit, exhibens secum puerum membris dissolutum, nomine Baudegisillum. Celebratis igitur solemniis Sancti, hunc artubus restitutis, secum reduxit illcolumem.\n\nCAPUT XXVIII.\n\nDe Claudii regalia cancellarii febre.\n\nNobis quoque cum rege morantibus, Claudius quidam ex cancellariis regalibus a a febre corripitur. Cumque cibum potumqne nimia oppressus febre exhorruisset, nobis quae patiebatur questus est, di!utumque pulverem, quem de Sancti ac Beati sepulcro pro salvatione levavimus, ut hausit, mox, compressa febre, sanatus est.\n\nCAPUT XXIX.\n\nDe eo quod Agnes Pictaviensis abbatissa de nauta quo dam retulit.\n\nVenerabilis vero Agnes, Pictavarum sanctimonia Hum abbatissa d, relatam sibi ab ipso cui contigit, Treverico scilicet negotiatore, rem miraculi provenisse, sic retulit: Dum, inquit, Mettis accessissem, interrogavit me quidam negotiator unde venirem. Din: De Pictavis. Dixit mihi si aliquando ad basilicam beati Martini Turonis occurrissem. Dixi quod quomodo in Austria e ambularem, sic ibi me praesentassem. Dixit mihi quale beneficium domni Martini senserat. Dum enim Mettis salem negoliassec, et ad pontem Mettis applicuisset, dixit: Domne Martine, me et puericellos quos habeo, et naviculam meam tibi commendo.","english":"CHAPTER XXVII.\n\nConcerning the servant of Bishop Nonnichius healed of a weakness.\n\nNow when the feast of the blessed Martin drew near, Nonnichius, bishop of the Namnetes, came to the basilica of the Saint, bringing with him a boy whose limbs were withered, by name Baudegisillus. When the solemn rites of the Saint had been celebrated, he restored him to his limbs and led him back home in health.\n\nCHAPTER XXVIII.\n\nConcerning the fever of Claudius, chancellor of the royal court.\n\nWhile we also were staying with the king, a certain Claudius, one of the royal chancellors, was seized by a fever. And when, oppressed by the excessive fever, he had come to loathe food and drink, he lamented to us what he was suffering; and as soon as he drank the dust diluted in water, which we had lifted from the tomb of the Saint and the Blessed one for his salvation, the fever was at once checked and he was healed.\n\nCHAPTER XXIX.\n\nConcerning what Agnes, abbess of Poitiers, reported from a certain sailor.\n\nNow the venerable Agnes, abbess of the holy virgins of Poitiers, reported that the matter of this miracle came to her from the very man to whom it happened, namely Trevericus, a merchant, as follows: \"When,\" she said, \"I had come to Metz, a certain merchant asked me whence I came. I said: 'From Poitiers.' He asked me whether I had ever been to the basilica of the blessed Martin at Tours. I said that, as I was traveling in Austrasia, I had presented myself there. He told me what benefit of the lord Martin he had experienced. For while he was trading salt at Metz, and had brought his boat to the bridge at Metz, he said: 'Lord Martin, I commend to you myself and the little boys I have, and my little boat.'","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":165,"ref":"p165","source":"Inter haec recubantes in navi, omnes obdormivimus. Mane excitans me cum puericellis, quos mecum habebam, invenimus nos ante portam Trevericam, nescientes quomodo venissemus, qui nos adhuc Mettis credebamus consistere; qua ratione aut navigatum est, aut volatUJU; sola commendatione beati Martini, nec fluvium sensissetUus, et Mosellæ tunc saevieutis undas naufragas evitassemus: et, quod satis est mirabile, quomodo inter saxa nocturno tempore præteriissemus incolumes, non nauta vigilante, non vento flante, non remo ducente.\n\nCAPUT XXX.\n\nDe virtutibus Locodiacensis monasterii.\n\nTempore post habito, cum usque Pictavam accessissemus urbem, libuit gratia tantum orationis monasterium Locociagense adire, quo congregatam monachorum catervam locaverat Vir beatus. Ibi enim mortuum primum suscitasse legitur a, et ei illo ad episcopatum ductus scribitur. Ergo desideratum elo eipetens locum, prosternor ad cancellos anguIi, in quo dicitur defuncti spiritum redusisle. Post effusas vero cum oratione lacrymas, ac celebratas solemniter missas, percunctor abbatem, si aliquod ibi Dominus miraculum ostendisset. Asseruitque ille coram qui aderant fratribus, plerumque ibi iUuminari cæcos, ac debiles redintegrari. Quid tamen nuper sit gestum, inquit, tibi, domne, quia sollicite inquiris, evolvam.","english":"Meanwhile, as we lay resting in the boat, we all fell asleep. In the morning, when I awoke with the boys I had with me, we found ourselves before the Treveric gate, not knowing how we had come, since we still believed we were staying at Metz. By what means we had either sailed or flown, only the commendation of the blessed Martin knows; for we had not felt the river, and we had avoided the shipwrecking waves of the Moselle then raging. And what is wondrous enough, how we passed unharmed among the rocks in the nighttime, with no sailor keeping watch, no wind blowing, no oar guiding us.\n\nCHAPTER XXX.\n\nConcerning the miracles of the monastery of Locociagum.\n\nAt a later time, when we had come as far as the city of Poitiers, it pleased me, for the sake of prayer alone, to visit the monastery of Locociagum, where the blessed man had settled a gathered company of monks. For there he is read to have first raised a dead man, and he who was led by him to the episcopate is written to have been there. Therefore, seeking the desired place, I prostrated myself at the railing of the corner in which the spirit of the dead man is said to have been restored. After tears poured out with prayer, and masses solemnly celebrated, I asked the abbot whether the Lord had shown any miracle there. And he asserted before the brothers who were present that very often the blind were enlightened there and the weak restored. \"Yet what was recently done,\" he said, \"since you inquire earnestly, my lord, I will unfold to you.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":166,"ref":"p166","source":"Mulier quaedam vicina loci hujus, paralysis humore perculsa, officium membrorum omnium usquequaque perdiderat. Quae carrucae imposita, a bobus trahentibus ferebatur, circuiens do. mos divitum, ut inopiae i suae expleret necessitatem. Ergo dum delata ad hunc locum pavimento prosterniLur, lento conamine accedens, velum quod sanctum tegebat cancellum devote osculatur, dicens: Hic te, beate Confessor, adesse!credo, hic te mor. luum suscitasse testificor. Confido enim quod si votueris, poteris me salvare, ac sanitati restituere, sicut quondam, disruptis inferni faucibus, defuncti animam reduxisti. Haee eSata, genas lacrymis rigabat ubertim: ac statim, impleta oratione, quidquid aridum,quidquid contractum,quidquid dissolutum fuit, redintegratum est mulieri in corpore a beati Antistitis virtute. Simili sorte et alius paralyticus ad hoc accedens monasterium, ut velum ipsius cancelli attigit, amota omni debilitate, sanus abscessit. Distat autem ab urbe Pictava quasi stadiis quadraginta.","english":"A certain woman from a neighboring place, struck by the humor of paralysis, had entirely lost the use of all her limbs. She was placed on a cart and, drawn by oxen, was carried about after the manner of the rich, so that she might supply the needs of her poverty. Therefore, when she had been brought to this place and had prostrated herself on the pavement, approaching with slow effort, she devoutly kissed the veil that covered the holy screen, saying: “I believe that you are present here, blessed Confessor; I testify that here you raised the dead. For I trust that, if you are willing, you can save me and restore me to health, just as once, having burst the jaws of hell, you brought back the soul of the dead.” Having said this, she bathed her cheeks abundantly with tears; and immediately, when the prayer was finished, whatever was withered, whatever was contracted, whatever was dissolved was made whole in the woman’s body by the power of the blessed Bishop. By a similar lot, another paralytic also, coming to this monastery, as soon as he touched the veil of its screen, with all weakness removed, departed healed. It lies about forty stadia from the city of Poitiers.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":167,"ref":"p167","source":"CAPUT XXXI\n\nDe fonte quem oratione Sanctus III oriretur obtinuit.\n\nExinde egressi, Santonicum territoriuM ingressi JUntas. Cumque in quodam convivio de beati Martini virtutibus fabularemur, hæc mihi unus et civibus, affirmuntibus aliis vera esse, fideliter retulit. Najogiato villa est in hoc territorio sita. ad quam cum sanctus Martinus adhuc superstes in corpore adiret, obvium habuit virum exhibentem aquam cum vaMulo. Erat enim puteus ille, de quo hanc exhibebat, situs in valle quasi mille passos a villa, et ei eo incolæ iaustam deferebaat aquam. Tuae ait Vir Dei homini aquam ferenti: Quæso, dilectissime, contine manum tuam, et huic asello cui sedeo, paululum aquæ ad bibendum indulge. Qui ait: Si necessarium ducis auiptal tuum adaquare, accede ad puteum, et hauriens dabis ei. Nam cgo quod cum labore detuli non praebebo; et haec dicens præteriit. Quo discedente venit protinus mulier, et ipsa deferens aquam in urnam; dixitque ei similiter Vir Dei. Quas illico ei, ae ei Rebecca quondam audiens nuntium Dei (GeN. XXIV): Et tibi praebeo, ait, et asino tuo potum; nec mihi labor est ut iterum hauriaun. Tantum voluntas tua Rat, qui iter pergens ue. cessitatem pateris. Et deposito de ulnis vasculo dedit aMM illius bibere. Quo facIO, iterum hausta aqua, impletaque vasculo revertebatur ad vitam.","english":"CHAPTER XXXI\n\nHow the Saint obtained by prayer that a spring should arise.\n\nSetting out from there, we entered the territory of Saintes. And when at a certain banquet we were conversing about the miracles of blessed Martin, one of the citizens faithfully related this to me, with the others affirming that it was true. There is a estate called Najogiato situated in this territory. When Saint Martin, while still alive in the body, was going to it, he met a man carrying water with a vessel. For that well, from which he was carrying it, was situated in a valley about a thousand paces from the estate, and the inhabitants used to bring water from it for their needs. The man of God said to the man carrying the water: I ask you, most beloved, hold back your hand, and grant a little water to this donkey on which I sit, to drink. He said: If you think it necessary to water your animal, go to the well, and drawing water you shall give it to him. For I will not give what I have carried with labor; and saying this he passed by. When he had gone away, a woman came at once, herself also carrying water in a vessel; and the man of God spoke to her similarly. She immediately, like Rebecca once hearing the message of God (Gen. 24), said: I give drink to you and to your donkey; nor is it any labor to me to draw again. Only let it be your will, who are continuing your journey and enduring need. And setting down the vessel from her arms, she gave the man of God drink. When this was done, drawing water again and filling the vessel, she returned to her life.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":168,"ref":"p168","source":"Quant prosequens Sanctus ait: Reddam tibi pro merced, beneficium, quia adaquasti asinum lDeUln. Et positis genibus in terra oravit ad Dominum, ut in loco illu fontis ostenderet venam. Ac statim consummate oratione, disrupta terra fontem immensum populis admirantibus patefecit. Qui usque hodie beMeRcium præbet bominibus commanentibus in agro Hio. In illius enim fontis ore est lapis is testimonium, qui vestigium retiDet aselli hujus super quem sanctus sedit Antistes.\n\nCAPUT XXXII.\n\nDe incendio urbis Pictavæ.\n\nNec illud silendum puto, quod illo teMpore cnm Plato a episcopatum Pictavae urbis adeptus est, virtus Sancti fuit ostensa. Domus adjuncta ecclesiasticae domui incendio maximo cremabatur, ac scintillas cum carbonibus super domum ecclesiæ, impellente vento, cadebant. Sed ille de pulvere beati sepulcri secum habens, elevato chrismario contra ignem, exortus subito ventus vento illi contrarius, flammas a tecto ecclesiastico defendens, alian pepulit in partem, et sie domus ecclesiae tiberata elt.","english":"Pursuing this, the saint said: \"I will repay you a benefit for your kindness, because you have watered the ass of God.\" And kneeling on the ground, he prayed to the Lord that he would reveal a vein of a spring in that place. And immediately, the prayer being finished, the earth was broken open and he revealed a vast spring to the wondering peoples. This spring even to this day provides benefit to the people dwelling in that field. For at the mouth of that spring there is a stone as a testimony, which preserves the footprint of that little ass on which the holy bishop sat.\n\nCHAPTER XXXII.\n\nConcerning the fire of the city of Poitiers.\n\nNor do I think that should be passed over in silence, which at that time, when Plato obtained the bishopric of the city of Poitiers, was shown by the power of the saint. A house adjoining the church's house was being consumed by a great fire, and sparks with coals were falling upon the house of the church, driven by the wind. But he, having with him dust from the blessed tomb, raised the chrismarium against the fire, and suddenly a wind arose contrary to that wind, warding off the flames from the church's roof, and drove them into another direction, and thus the house of the church was preserved.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":169,"ref":"p169","source":"CAPUT XXXIII.\n\nDe puero a febre sanato.\n\nCum autem puer ejus in valetudine acerbissima febre exustus jaceret iR lectulo, et jam quasi exanimis haberetur; ut de hoc pulvere diluto porrexit infirmo, protinus iugata febre puer convaluit de labore. Sed ad basilicam Sancti redeamus.\n\nCAPUT XXXIV.\n\nDe Leodulfo amente et debili. -\n\nCum autem ante hos annos terrae motus magnus terram concuteret, cunctaque valde moverentur, quasi in uno momento casura, Leodulfus e quidam ab eo vehementer excussus, non solum sensu mulctatur, sed etiam omnibus membris debitis est effectus. Qui veniens ad basilicam Sancii Turunis, et orationi paucis diebus incumbens, et voci redditur e, seusui, et membris omnibus quasi redivivus sospes. est redditus.\n\nCAPUT XXXV.\n\nDe homine innocent, per calumniam accusato, et liberato.\n\nNec illud prætermittendum puto, quod innocenter homo accusatus per calumnias malorum, adducebatur ad urbem vinctus loro, ut truderetur ergastulo. Cumque ante basilicam sancti Petri apostoli in pu. blicum adductus aggerem devenisset, solutæ sunt manus ejus, dixitquc custodibus: In hoc apparet me a culpa quam dicitis esse immunem, cum meae manus divinitus sunt solutae. Tunc illi indignantes arctius eum revinxerum, et insuper adhuc alio loro ligamini adjecto, ut ita dicam, vincula ipsa vinxerunt. Conti. git autem eo tempore, ut nos de basilica sancti Martini per plateam veniremus.","english":"CHAPTER XXXIII.\n\nConcerning a boy healed of a fever.\n\nWhen his boy lay on his bed consumed by a most severe fever, and was already regarded as all but lifeless, as soon as he gave some of this dust, mixed with water, to the sick one, the boy at once recovered from his suffering, the fever having been banished. But let us return to the basilica of the saint.\n\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\n\nConcerning Leodulfus, out of his mind and crippled.\n\nWhen, some years before this, a great earthquake shook the earth, and all things were violently moved, as if about to fall in a single moment, a certain Leodulfus was violently shaken by it, and was not only deprived of his senses, but was also made weak in all his limbs. Coming to the basilica of Saint Martin, and devoting himself to prayer for a few days, he was restored to speech, to sense, and to all his limbs, sound as if brought back to life.\n\nCHAPTER XXXV.\n\nConcerning an innocent man accused by calumny, and set free.\n\nNor do I think that should be passed over, that a man innocently accused through the calumnies of wicked men was being brought bound with a strap to the city, to be thrust into prison. And when he had been led publicly before the basilica of the holy apostle Peter and had come to the embankment, his hands were loosed, and he said to the guards: \"In this it is clear that I am free from the crime you speak of, since my hands have been loosed by divine power.\" Then they, indignant, bound him more tightly, and moreover, adding yet another strap to the binding, they bound, so to speak, the very bonds themselves. It happened, however, at that time, that we were coming through the square from the basilica of Saint Martin.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":170,"ref":"p170","source":"Hi autem cum nobis iD obviam venientes appropinquarent, ut primum basilicam Sancti homo vinctus aspexit, statim solutae sunt manus ejus: exsiliensque de caballo in quo. sedebat, pedes nostros arripuit, esponens se injuste damnari. Sicque nobis cum judice colloquentibus, absque fatigatione discessit.\n\nCAPUT XXXVI.\n\nDe muliere obmutescente sanata.\n\nConjux Serenati hominis nostri, cum de cultura, viro præmisso rediret, subito inter manus dilapsa comitantium terras corruit, ligataque lingua, nullum verbum ex ore potens proferre, obmutuit. Interea accedentibus ariolis, ac dicentibus eam meridiani dæmonii incursum pati, ligamina herbarum atque incantationum verba proferebant; senme-. dicaminis juxta morem conferre poterant periturae. Cumque familia mixio ululatu perstreperet, filius ejus ad neptem nostram Eusteniam \" anhelus accurrit, uuntians matrem suam extremæ vitae terminum attigisse. Quæ adveniens ad aegrotam, eamque visitans, amotisque ligaminibus quae stulti indiderant, oleum beati sepulcri ori ejus infudit, ceraque sofivit b. Mox sermone reddito, nequitiae dolo dirempto, aegra convaluit.","english":"But when these men, coming to meet us, drew near, as soon as the bound man caught sight of the basilica of the saint, his hands were at once loosed; and leaping from the horse on which he sat, he seized our feet, declaring that he had been unjustly condemned. And so, while we were conversing with the judge, he departed without weariness.\n\nCHAPTER XXXVI.\n\nConcerning a woman healed of dumbness.\n\nThe wife of Serenatus, one of our people, when she was returning from the cultivation of the fields with her husband sent on ahead, suddenly slipped from the hands of those accompanying her and fell to the ground, and with her tongue bound, unable to bring forth any word from her mouth, she became mute. Meanwhile, when soothsayers came and said that she was suffering an attack of the noonday demon, they brought out herb-bindings and the words of incantations; but they could not, as was their custom, apply the remedy of healing to one who was about to perish. And when the household resounded with great wailing, her son ran breathless to our granddaughter Eustenia, announcing that his mother had reached the end of extreme life. She, coming to the sick woman and visiting her, and having removed the bindings that the foolish had applied, poured oil of the blessed sepulchre into her mouth, and sealed it with wax. Soon, with speech restored and the deceit of wickedness cut off, the sick woman recovered.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":171,"ref":"p171","source":"CAPUT XXXVII.\n\nfle frigorificis sanatis.\n\nTempore autem quo post obitum gloriosissimi regis Guntchramni Childebertus rex Aurelianensium urbem adivit (An. 095), p\"erorum unus aulicorum graviter a typo terLiano, accedentibus discedentibusque febribus, tremore superveniente quatiebatur. Id cum nobis faisset questus, de pulvere sancti sepulcri polum ei porresimus:quem hauriens,compresso tremore convaluit. In sequenti vero nocte cum dies ille, quo frangi e consueverat, advenisset, viditper visum advenientem personam teterrimam, dicentemque sibi: Ecce jam tempus l.ui tremoris advenit, quid dissimulas? Age quod consuevisti. Haec eo dicente, advenit vir quidam vultu splendidus, caesarie niveu8, aspectu decorus, dicens ei: Ne tremueris, sed facitO super frontem tuam signum venerandac crucis, statimque sanaberis. In hac visione expergefactus, munitusque hoc signaculo quo fuerat jussus, nunquam ulterius quae pati soleret passus est. Ab hoc typo reginae puela fatigata, potu bujus saucd medicaminis 1136I sumpto, sanata est.,","english":"CHAPTER XXXVII.\n\nHow those sick with chills were healed.\n\nNow at the time when, after the death of the most glorious King Guntchramn, King Childebert came to the city of the Aurelianenses, one of the boys of the court was grievously shaken by a tertian fever, the fevers coming and going, with a trembling coming over him. When he had complained of this to us, we reached out to him a little of the dust of the saint's sepulcher; and drawing it in, with the trembling suppressed he recovered. But on the following night, when that day on which he was accustomed to be broken by it had come, he saw in a vision a most hideous person coming and saying to him: \"Behold, now the time of your trembling has come; why do you dissemble? Do what you are accustomed to do.\" While he was saying this, there came a certain man splendid of countenance, with snow-white hair, comely in appearance, saying to him: \"Do not tremble, but make the sign of the venerable cross upon your forehead, and you shall be healed at once.\" Awakened from this vision, and fortified by this sign which he had been bidden to make, he never afterward suffered what he had been wont to suffer. A girl of the queen, worn out by this same fever, having taken a draught of this healthful remedy, was healed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":172,"ref":"p172","source":"CAPUT XXXVIII.\n\nDe cæcis, energuMenis et paralyticis.\n\nNon post multos dies, cum solepmnitatis sanctae dies annuus recurrisset, nos a rege rearessi, festivitati ejus adfuimus, in qua quatuor cæci lumine recepto regressi sunt, duo energumeni mundati, duo paralytici contracti, restutis gressibus, incolumes redierunt.\n\nCAPUT XXXIX.\n\nIle carceratis laxatis.\n\nPost paucos vero dies cum culpabiles quosdam urbis Turonicae, judicis sententia carcerali ergastulo conclusisset, lamentantibus vinctis, virtus beati Confessoris apparuit, quæ diruptis vinculis compeditorum, Hiberos in basilicam abire permisit. Sicque et IIi a judice relaxati, ad propria recesserunt.\n\nCAPUT XL.\n\nDe Maurano muto.\n\nQuidam in regione Cantabriae, Mauranus nomine, mane a lectulo consurvens, dumde domo egreditur, visum est ei quasI an aliquo percussus fuerit in cervicem. Qui protinus ruens in terram, factus est ianquam mortuns,ac per triduum solo spiritu vivena, tanquam mortuusputabatur. Quarta autem die apertis oculis nihił poterat loqui. Ablata enim ei fuerat fandi facultas. Auditis autem beati Martini miraculis, unum triantem nautis porrexit, innuens cum supplicatione ut eum ad beati antistitis temptum deferrent. Quibus abeuntibus, ille ad domum suam reversus, vidit1137 ante pedes suus aureum in similitudinem triantis. Quo assumpto, pensatoqae, unius solidi appensus est pondere.","english":"CHAPTER XXXVIII. Concerning the blind, the possessed, and the paralytic.\n\nNot many days later, when the annual day of the holy solemnity had come round again, we, having returned from the king, were present at that festival, at which four blind men, having received their sight, returned; two possessed men were cleansed; and two paralytics, who had been crippled, with their steps restored, went back sound.\n\nCHAPTER XXXIX. How prisoners were released.\n\nBut after a few days, when the judge's sentence had shut certain guilty men of the city of Tours in the prison's dungeon, as the bound men lamented, the power of the blessed Confessor appeared, which, having burst the chains of the prisoners, permitted the Iberians to go into the basilica. And so they also, released by the judge, withdrew to their own places.\n\nCHAPTER XL. Concerning Mauranus, the mute.\n\nA certain man in the region of Cantabria, by name Mauranus, rising from his bed in the morning, while he was going out from the house, it seemed to him as if he had been struck by something on the neck. And at once falling to the ground, he became as if dead, and for three days, living only by breath, he was thought to be dead. But on the fourth day, with his eyes opened, he could speak nothing. For the faculty of speaking had been taken from him. But when he had heard of the miracles of the blessed Martin, he handed a single triens to the sailors, indicating with supplication that they should carry him to the shrine of the blessed bishop. As they were going away, he, having returned to his own house, saw before his feet a gold coin in the likeness of a triens. Having taken it up and weighed it, it was found to weigh the weight of one solidus.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":173,"ref":"p173","source":"Quod Ute cernens, dixit intra se: Reddidit mibi virtus beati Martini meritum pro fenore quod ejus templo direxi. Et accensus desiderio voluit in unam atque aliam navim conscendere, sed a parentibus est retentus. Reperta autem tertia navi, retineri penitus non potuit. Qua ascensa, cum impellente vento altum.nare ingressi fuissent, os ejus virtus sancti Antistitis reseravit. Qui extensis ad caelum manibus locutus est, dicens: Gratias tibi ago, omnipotens Deus, qui me hoc iter sulcare jussisti. fam enim'priusquam templum Sancti lui vidcam, ejus refertus sum benEficiis. Quibus na vigantibus Burdegalæ urbi appulsi sunt: egtessusque hinc de navi,ad basilicam sancti Dei accedens, ac votum suum cSlolTens, quae scripsimus, ab ipsius ore relata cognovimut.\n\nCAPUT XLi [At., XL].\n\nDe contractoet vinculatis liberatis.\n\nAlia vero Festivitate adveniente, quæ in hieme cclebralur, Maurellus quidam ex domo Pontinconensi (Pontion), servus Agiui ducis, aui mense Martio per incursionem nescioquam unius poplitis perdiderat usum, et gnessum figere non valens, adhibiosibi ad geniculum fuste, at mos est elaudoNm, adfuit. Is cum per tridumorationem fudisset ad Dominum, quarta die quæ eat in crastinum de festivitate, gena directo sanus abscesit. Post paucos autem dies homines, qui careeri. vinculistenebantur, divinitus absoluu, Sancli basilicam sunt ingresli, et per juJIcem immunes a damno laxati sunt.","english":"Seeing this, Ute said within himself: The power of the blessed Martin has repaid me the favor for the loan I directed to his church. And kindled with desire, he wanted to board one ship and then another, but he was held back by his parents. When a third ship was found, he could not be held back at all. Having boarded it, when with a driving wind they had entered the deep to sail, the power of the holy bishop opened his mouth. And stretching out his hands to heaven, he spoke, saying: I give thanks to you, almighty God, who commanded me to plow this journey. For before I see the temple of your saint, I have been filled with his benefits. As they sailed, they put in at the city of Bordeaux; and having disembarked from the ship, coming to the basilica of the holy man of God and fulfilling his vow, we learned from his own mouth the things we have written.\n\nCHAPTER XLI.\n\nConcerning the contracted and those bound in chains.\n\nBut when another festival came round, which is celebrated in winter, a certain Maurellus from the household of Pontincon (Pontion), a servant of Duke Agiulf, who in the month of March through some incursion or other had lost the use of one knee, and was unable to plant his step, attached a stick to his knee, as is the custom of the lame, and was present. When he had poured out prayer to the Lord for the space of three days, on the fourth day, which was the day before the festival, with his knee made straight he departed healed. But after a few days, men who were being held bound in prison, divinely released, entered the basilica of the saint, and through the judge were freed from penalty.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":174,"ref":"p174","source":"CAPUT XLII [At., XLI].\n\nDe alio contracto.\n\nPuer quidam pedibusi manibusque contractus. de villa Themello in pago Turonicae urbis, visi Ambiacensis e, adveniens abasilicam Sancti, dum inter reliquos petentes.postularet victus stipem, visitatus a Sancti virtute directus abscessit.\n\nCAPUT XLIII [AI., XLI!].\n\nDe pueris febricitantibussanatis.\n\nAlius quoque puerulus Euthymi [Gat., Eucltenli] presbyteri nostri, cum in valetudinem febris nimiæ incidisset, ac exanimari ab eadem putaretur, de pulvere sancti sepulcri presbyter levans, ac fimhrias pallae superpositae disrumpens Mecum detulit, pulveremque puero hauriendum dedit, fimbrias vero collo ejus alligavit. Mox febre restincta sanatus est. Non dispari modo et Ulfaricus presbyter alteri puero febricitanti studium adhibens subvenit, et ine prolinus per virtutem Sancti febre carens convaluit.","english":"CHAPTER XLII [At., XLI].\n\nConcerning another cripple.\n\nA certain boy, crippled in his feet and hands, from the estate of Themellum in the district of the city of Tours, having come to the basilica of the Saint, while among the other suppliants he was asking for a morsel of food, was visited by the power of the Saint and departed healed.\n\nCHAPTER XLIII [Al., XLII].\n\nConcerning boys cured of fever.\n\nAlso another little boy of Euthymius, our priest, when he had fallen into the illness of an excessive fever and was thought to be at the point of death from it, the priest, lifting some dust from the holy sepulcher and tearing off the fringes of the pall placed over it, brought it with him, and gave the dust to the boy to swallow, and tied the fringes around his neck. Straightway the fever was quenched and he was healed. In no different manner also Ulfaricus the priest, applying his care, came to the aid of another boy suffering from fever, and he immediately recovered, free of fever through the power of the Saint.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":175,"ref":"p175","source":"CAPUT XLiv [AI., XLlIll.\n\nDe Principio amente.\n\nPrincipius a quidam vir bonus, Petrocoricae urhiR civis, amentiam nescio quam incurrisse putabatur, et tam graviter agebatur interdum, ut de sensu videretur excidere. Quod cum multis mensibus perferret, beati Antistitis basilicam expetivit; ibique, ut arbitror, quatuor residens menses, abstinens se a cibo carnium ac vino, adjutus Confessoris beati præsidio, incolumi. domui suae restitutus est.\n\nCAPUT XLV [AI., XLIY].\n\nDe Leodulfocœco sanato.\n\nEt quia rusticitas hominum, dum parum prædicationem sacerdotalem sequitur, ipsa se praeparat ad Dei offensam, quod nuper gestum fuit edicam. Leodulfus quidam, Biturigae urbis homo, cum fenum secuiaset, metuens ne adventu pluviæ venientis infunderetur et laborem suum perderet, die Dominico mane junctis bobus ad pratum direxit, ac super plaustrum fenum agglomerare caepit: statimque pes ejus unus quasi ardens ei visus est, regressusque ad hosphium suum, quievit ab opere. Post missarum vero I solemnia celebrata, iterum junctis bobus opus coeptum pergit explere: completumque cum esset plaustrum feno, statim oculi ejus quasi a quibusdam aculeis puncti, dolorem maximum intulerunt. Quibus conclusis nunquam deinceps eos aperire potuit.","english":"CHAPTER XLIV [At., XLIII].\n\nConcerning Principius, who was out of his mind.\n\nA certain good man, Principius, a citizen of the city of Périgueux, was thought to have fallen into some madness or other, and at times he was so gravely afflicted that he seemed to lose his reason. When he had endured this for many months, he sought the basilica of the blessed Bishop; and there, as I reckon, he stayed four months, abstaining from meat and wine, and aided by the protection of the blessed Confessor, he was restored sound to his own house.\n\nCHAPTER XLV [At., XLIV].\n\nConcerning Leodulfus, a blind man, healed.\n\nAnd because the rusticity of men, while it little follows the preaching of priests, prepares itself for offense against God, I shall set forth what was done recently. A certain Leodulfus, a man of the city of Bourges, when he had cut hay, fearing lest by the coming of rain he should be drenched and lose his labor, on the morning of the Lord's day yoked his oxen and drove to the meadow, and began to pile the hay upon the cart; and immediately one of his feet seemed to him as if burning, and returning to his own house, he rested from the work. But after the solemnities of the mass had been celebrated, again yoking his oxen he went on to finish the work begun; and when the cart had been filled with hay, immediately his eyes, as if pricked by certain stings, brought upon him the greatest pain. These being closed, he could never afterward open them.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":176,"ref":"p176","source":"Sicque per annum integrum in caecitate permanens, ad festivitatem sancti Antistitis devotus advenit: cujus post diem tertiam, beneficio lucis quam perdiderat restauratus est.\n\nCAPUT XLVI.\n\nDe duobus aliis contractia.\n\nEo e tempore, et alius contractus adveniens, virtute Sancti directus, propriis gressibus ad urbem suam regressus est. Advenerat quida(n ex Britannia, nomine Paternianus, qui cæcus, mutus, ac surdus, et manibus contractus per quoddam contagium fuerat, et confectis omnibus membris a morbo, soli tantum pedes praebebant homini sustentaculum. Patroni praepotentis hic expetiit basilicam, orationem fudit, apertis oculis lucem perditam aspexit, manus ad usum pristinum recepit, et se salvatum beati Antistitis virtute demirans, sospitatis suæ gratiam populis declaravit. Ob hujus miraculi graHam a muttis munera capit. de quibus jam nonnullos a jugo captivitatis exemit.","english":"And so, remaining in blindness for a whole year, he came devoutly to the festival of the holy Bishop; and three days afterward he was restored by the gift of the light he had lost.\n\nCHAPTER XLVI.\n\nConcerning two other crippled men.\n\nAt that same time another crippled man also arrived, and, guided by the power of the Saint, returned to his own city on his own feet. There had come a certain man from Britain, by the name of Paternianus, who through some contagion had become blind, mute, and deaf, and crippled in his hands, and with all his limbs wasted by disease, only his feet still gave support to the man. He sought the basilica of the most powerful patron, poured out prayer, with opened eyes beheld the light he had lost, received his hands for their former use, and, marveling that he had been saved by the power of the blessed Bishop, declared the grace of his recovery to the peoples. For the sake of this miracle he received gifts from many, and from these he has already freed several from the yoke of captivity.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":177,"ref":"p177","source":"CAPUT XLVII [AI., XL VI].\n\nDe incendio ope ejus exitincto.\n\nPraesenti quoque tempore, apud Burdegalensem urbem domus una ignibus comprehensa vehementer coepit exuri. Cumque Oammis hinc et inde spatianlibus aliae domus huic discrimini subjacerent, nec esset dubium easdem hujus fomitis calore depasci, congregatus in circuitu populus nomen beati Martini coepit attentius invocare, et ne vicinas domos virtus ejus exuri permitteret, cum lacrymis deprecari: sicque ad elevatam vocem deflentium coepit crepitus flammæ decidere. Atque illis clamantibus ad coetum, advenit subito, Antistite ilnparLiente, præsidium; collisumque supplici oratione incendium, restinxit plebs per lacrymas quod nequiverat superare per undas. Eo tempore puer noster Laudovaldus cum graviter a dysenteria faligareLur, ut de pulvere sepulcri accepit, protinus morbo caruit.","english":"CHAPTER XLVII [XLVII, formerly XLVI].\n\nConcerning a fire extinguished by his aid.\n\nAlso in the present time, in the city of Bordeaux, a certain house was seized by fire and began to burn fiercely. And when, with the flames spreading this way and that, other houses lay exposed to this danger, and there was no doubt that they too would be consumed by the heat of this conflagration, the people gathered around began earnestly to invoke the name of the blessed Martin, and with tears to entreat that his power not permit the neighboring houses to be burned; and so, at the raised voice of those weeping, the crackling of the flame began to subside. And as they cried out together, suddenly, with the Bishop granting it, aid arrived; and the fire, beaten down by suppliant prayer, the people extinguished with tears what they had been unable to overcome with water. At that time our boy Laudovald, when he was being grievously afflicted by dysentery, as soon as he received some of the dust from the tomb, was straightway freed from the disease.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":178,"ref":"p178","source":"Explicit liber quartus, de virtutibus et miraculis sancti Martini confessoris.","english":"Here ends the fourth book, concerning the virtues and miracles of Saint Martin the confessor.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]}]}