E00290: Gregory of Tours writes the Life of *Senoch (ascetic and miracle-worker near Tours, ob. 576, S00116): it presents the saint as an ascetic and a miracle worker in the Touraine (north-west Gaul), who heeded Gregory's admonitions. From Gregory's Life of the Fathers, written in Latin in Tours, 573/594. Overview of Gregory's Life of Senoch.
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posted on 2015-02-13, 00:00 authored by robertGregory of Tours, Life of the Fathers, Book 15 (Life of Senoch)
Summary:
Preface: Saints of God can be led into arrogance and vanity, as happened to this man, until he heeded warnings.
§ 1: Senoch was a Taifal by birth, from the region of Poitou called Theifalia. He became a cleric and founded a monastery in the Touraine around an oratory where St Martin is said to have once prayed; a miracle happened during the deposition of relics in its altar by Bishop Eufronius of Tours [Gregory's predecessor; see $E00291]. He practiced rigourous asceticism in his cell. People brought him money and he spent it paying the debts of the poor and ransoming slaves.
§ 2: He visited Gregory in Tours and gave him his blessing. But then, after a visit to his former home in Poitou, he began to be arrogant and proud. When admonished by Gregory, however, he reformed his ways. He worked healing miracles, and wished to enclose himself in his cell; Gregory advised him to do this only between the feast of St Martin [11 November] and Christmas, and during Lent.
§ 3: Gregory gives a long list of his miracles: Senoch brought sight to a blind man, to a boy from Poitou and to a woman called Benaia, he straightened the limbs of two crippled boys, and - during Easter celebrations - the contracted fingers of a boy and a girl. He stopped the venom of serpents from spreading in the bodies of people who had been bitten, by means of an expelling prayer. He released a man's hand which had been paralysed as a result of working on Easter day. He performed exorcisms. He gave food and clothing to the people and built bridges to save people from drowning.
§ 4: Gregory visited him at his deathbed, and a large crowd of those whom he had helped mourned him. Miracles occur at his grave; in particular a paralysed man was healed when he kissed the cloth that covered his tomb [see $E00293].
Text: Krusch 1969, 271-274. Summary: Marta Tycner.
Summary:
Preface: Saints of God can be led into arrogance and vanity, as happened to this man, until he heeded warnings.
§ 1: Senoch was a Taifal by birth, from the region of Poitou called Theifalia. He became a cleric and founded a monastery in the Touraine around an oratory where St Martin is said to have once prayed; a miracle happened during the deposition of relics in its altar by Bishop Eufronius of Tours [Gregory's predecessor; see $E00291]. He practiced rigourous asceticism in his cell. People brought him money and he spent it paying the debts of the poor and ransoming slaves.
§ 2: He visited Gregory in Tours and gave him his blessing. But then, after a visit to his former home in Poitou, he began to be arrogant and proud. When admonished by Gregory, however, he reformed his ways. He worked healing miracles, and wished to enclose himself in his cell; Gregory advised him to do this only between the feast of St Martin [11 November] and Christmas, and during Lent.
§ 3: Gregory gives a long list of his miracles: Senoch brought sight to a blind man, to a boy from Poitou and to a woman called Benaia, he straightened the limbs of two crippled boys, and - during Easter celebrations - the contracted fingers of a boy and a girl. He stopped the venom of serpents from spreading in the bodies of people who had been bitten, by means of an expelling prayer. He released a man's hand which had been paralysed as a result of working on Easter day. He performed exorcisms. He gave food and clothing to the people and built bridges to save people from drowning.
§ 4: Gregory visited him at his deathbed, and a large crowd of those whom he had helped mourned him. Miracles occur at his grave; in particular a paralysed man was healed when he kissed the cloth that covered his tomb [see $E00293].
Text: Krusch 1969, 271-274. Summary: Marta Tycner.
History
Evidence ID
E00290Saint Name
Senoch, ascetic and miracle-worker from Poitou, Gaul, ob. 576 near Tours : S00116 Martin, ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397 : S00050Saint Name in Source
Senoch MartinusRelated Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - Lives of saintLanguage
- Latin
