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E00310: Gregory of Tours, in his Life of *Venantius (priest and abbot in Tours, ob. late 5th century, S00121), tells of the posthumous cult and miracles of the saint taking place at his grave and bed in Tours (north-west Gaul). From Gregory's Life of the Fathers, written in Latin in Tours, 573/594.
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posted on 2015-02-18, 00:00 authored by pnowakowskiGregory of Tours, Life of the Fathers 16.4
Gregory relates some of the miracles that have occurred at Venantius' grave in Tours:
(Ch.4) His et talibus virtutum magnarum gratia pollens, impleto vitae praesentis curriculo, vitam percepturus aeternam, emicuit saeculo, cuius beatum sepulchrum miraculorum inlustrium effectu plerumque redditur gloriosum.Mascarpionis servi ipsius monasterii mentem iniquus daemon obsederat; qui per trium annorum curriculo inerguminus factus, ad sepulchrum beati viri debacans, tandem eius est, ut credimus, oratione, eiecto daemone, expurgatus, multos deinceps mente integra vivens annos. Iuliani coniux quartanae febris accensu laborans, ut sepulchrum beati viri attigit, conpraesso ardore ac tremore corporali, sanata discessit. Simili sorte et Baudimundi uxor ab hac febre laborabat; sed ubi ad lectulum sancti viri prostrata fudit orationem, mox incolomitate restituta convaluit. Multa quidem et alia de eo audivimus, sed sufficere haec ad credulitatem catholicorum quae scripta sunt arbitramur.
'The man who had received the grace of accomplishing great miracles and other similar things, after having completed the course of his present life, left the world in order to receive eternal life, and his tomb is often glorified by illustrious miracles. A wicked demon had troubled the spirit of Mascarpion, a servant of the monastery, who was possessed for three years and used to come to rave in front of the tomb of the holy man. In the end he was, we believe, delivered of this demon by the prayer of the blessed man, and he lived for long years quite sane in his mind. The wife of Julian, who was oppressed by a quartan fever, was delivered from all fire and from all shivering as soon as she touched the tomb of the holy man, and she left cured. The wife of Baudimund was in the same state, and she was cured as soon as she had fallen down and prayed beside the bed of the same saint. We have heard many other things about him, but those which we have written are sufficient, we think, to establish belief in the minds of catholics.'
Text: Krusch 1969, 276-277. Translation: James 1991, 103.
Gregory relates some of the miracles that have occurred at Venantius' grave in Tours:
(Ch.4) His et talibus virtutum magnarum gratia pollens, impleto vitae praesentis curriculo, vitam percepturus aeternam, emicuit saeculo, cuius beatum sepulchrum miraculorum inlustrium effectu plerumque redditur gloriosum.Mascarpionis servi ipsius monasterii mentem iniquus daemon obsederat; qui per trium annorum curriculo inerguminus factus, ad sepulchrum beati viri debacans, tandem eius est, ut credimus, oratione, eiecto daemone, expurgatus, multos deinceps mente integra vivens annos. Iuliani coniux quartanae febris accensu laborans, ut sepulchrum beati viri attigit, conpraesso ardore ac tremore corporali, sanata discessit. Simili sorte et Baudimundi uxor ab hac febre laborabat; sed ubi ad lectulum sancti viri prostrata fudit orationem, mox incolomitate restituta convaluit. Multa quidem et alia de eo audivimus, sed sufficere haec ad credulitatem catholicorum quae scripta sunt arbitramur.
'The man who had received the grace of accomplishing great miracles and other similar things, after having completed the course of his present life, left the world in order to receive eternal life, and his tomb is often glorified by illustrious miracles. A wicked demon had troubled the spirit of Mascarpion, a servant of the monastery, who was possessed for three years and used to come to rave in front of the tomb of the holy man. In the end he was, we believe, delivered of this demon by the prayer of the blessed man, and he lived for long years quite sane in his mind. The wife of Julian, who was oppressed by a quartan fever, was delivered from all fire and from all shivering as soon as she touched the tomb of the holy man, and she left cured. The wife of Baudimund was in the same state, and she was cured as soon as she had fallen down and prayed beside the bed of the same saint. We have heard many other things about him, but those which we have written are sufficient, we think, to establish belief in the minds of catholics.'
Text: Krusch 1969, 276-277. Translation: James 1991, 103.
History
Evidence ID
E00310Saint Name
Venantius, presbyter and abbot from Tours (Gaul), ob. late 5th c. : S00121Related Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - Lives of saintLanguage
- Latin