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E02861: Gregory of Tours, in his Miracles of Martin (1.13), recounts a story told him by Venantius Fortunatus of how an unnamed man in Italy was cured from a deadly pustule by placing on it a piece of clothing worn by a man when visiting the church in Tours of *Martin (ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397, S00050). Fortunatus also told Gregory about his father, cured by applying a piece of cloth from an oratory of Martin in the north Italy. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/576.
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posted on 2017-05-29, 00:00 authored by kwojtalikGregory of Tours, Miracles of Martin (Libri de virtutibus sancti Martini episcopi) 1.13
Gregory was told by Fortunatus about a miracle that happened in Italy to a man suffering from a deadly pustule.
Quidam aliquibus interrogat, ad templum beati Martini quis fuerit. Tunc quidam ex adstantibus adserit, se fuisse. Requiret aegrotus, quid inde pro benedictione detulerit. Qui negat, se aliquid praesumpsisse. Cui iterum interrogat, qua tunc veste indutus sit, cum ad templum sanctum occurrerit. Respondit: ea quae super se ipso tempore utebatur. Tunc abscisam fideliter indumenti particulam inposuit super pusulam. Mox ut aegri membra tetigit, vulnus pusulae veneni vim perdidit; quae tali medicamine et virtute sancti protulit et infirmum refert incolomem.
'He (the infected man) asked some men whether any of them had been to the church of the blessed Martin. One of the bystanders said that he had been. The ill man asked what he had taken away from the church as a blessing. The other man replied that he had not presumed to take anything. The ill man asked him again which clothes he had been wearing then when he visited the holy church. The man replied (that he had then been wearing) the clothes that he was wearing now. The ill man confidently cut off a small fragment of the other man’s clothes and placed it on his pustule. As soon as the fragment touched the limbs of the ill man, the wound of the pustule lost its poisonous effect; and through its medicine the fragment offered the saint’s power and restored the ill man to his health.'
Fortunatus also recounted that whenever someone suffered from a pustule in Italy, they went to the nearest oratory of Martin (ad propinquum quod fuerit beati Martini oratorium) and would be healed by placing on the wound a piece of cloth taken from the curtain over the door, or of the draperies that hung on the walls. Fortunatus' father was cured by such a remedy.
Text: Krusch 1969, 147. Translation: Van Dam 1993, 214, lightly modified.
Gregory was told by Fortunatus about a miracle that happened in Italy to a man suffering from a deadly pustule.
Quidam aliquibus interrogat, ad templum beati Martini quis fuerit. Tunc quidam ex adstantibus adserit, se fuisse. Requiret aegrotus, quid inde pro benedictione detulerit. Qui negat, se aliquid praesumpsisse. Cui iterum interrogat, qua tunc veste indutus sit, cum ad templum sanctum occurrerit. Respondit: ea quae super se ipso tempore utebatur. Tunc abscisam fideliter indumenti particulam inposuit super pusulam. Mox ut aegri membra tetigit, vulnus pusulae veneni vim perdidit; quae tali medicamine et virtute sancti protulit et infirmum refert incolomem.
'He (the infected man) asked some men whether any of them had been to the church of the blessed Martin. One of the bystanders said that he had been. The ill man asked what he had taken away from the church as a blessing. The other man replied that he had not presumed to take anything. The ill man asked him again which clothes he had been wearing then when he visited the holy church. The man replied (that he had then been wearing) the clothes that he was wearing now. The ill man confidently cut off a small fragment of the other man’s clothes and placed it on his pustule. As soon as the fragment touched the limbs of the ill man, the wound of the pustule lost its poisonous effect; and through its medicine the fragment offered the saint’s power and restored the ill man to his health.'
Fortunatus also recounted that whenever someone suffered from a pustule in Italy, they went to the nearest oratory of Martin (ad propinquum quod fuerit beati Martini oratorium) and would be healed by placing on the wound a piece of cloth taken from the curtain over the door, or of the draperies that hung on the walls. Fortunatus' father was cured by such a remedy.
Text: Krusch 1969, 147. Translation: Van Dam 1993, 214, lightly modified.
History
Evidence ID
E02861Saint Name
Martin, ascetic and bishop of Tours (Gaul), ob. 397 : S00050Saint Name in Source
MartinusRelated Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - Collections of miraclesLanguage
- Latin