File(s) not publicly available
E03296: Gregory of Tours, in his Miracles of Martin (2.43), recounts how a starved boy with fever was revived after the cloth over the tomb of *Martin (ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397, S00050) in Tours touched the boy's clothes; AD 577/578. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 577/581.
online resource
posted on 2017-07-15, 00:00 authored by kwojtalikGregory of Tours, Miracles of Martin (Libri de virtutibus sancti Martini episcopi) 2.43
A little boy was given to a wet-nurse nurse for feeding, but the nurse also did not have milk, and so he was seriously starved. The boy's mother died, and he lived for almost a year close to death; a fever attacked him.
Ut autem eum hic fervor attigit, concurrit pater ad eclesiam, ne prolis absque baptismo fungeretur. Qui baptizatus nec confortatus corpore praeter illud spiritale remedium, iam suffossis oculis, iam palpebris laxatis atque demissis, iam nullum flatum spiraminis habens, super beatum sepulchrum, patre heiulante, deponitur. Nec defuit virtus illa caelestis, quae quondam parvulum inter manus confessoris vivificavit. At ubi primum huius vestimenta cooperturium tumuli attigit, ilico parvulus respiravit. Mirum miraculum videres pallentes genas gradatim, virtute divina insistente, rubescere et sopitos oculos in lumine redivivo laxari. Tunc a sancto vivificatus et a patre receptus, sospes usque hodie in testimonium virtutis habetur.
'When this fever assailed him, his father ran to the cathedral, so that his son would not die without being baptised. After his baptism the boy received no physical relief in addition to this spiritual cure; instead, with sunken eyes, his eyelids slackened and drooped, he no longer exhaled any breath. His father wept, and the young boy was placed on the blessed tomb. But that heavenly power that had once revived a young boy between the hands of the confessor was not lacking. For as soon as the covering over the tomb touched this young boy’s clothing, immediately he breathed again. This was a marvellous miracle! For you might see his pale cheeks gradually become red as the divine power took effect and his senseless eyes open as sight was restored. Then the young boy was revived by the saint and received again by his father. He is still healthy today as a witness to this miracle.'
Text: Krusch 1969, 174-175. Translation: Van Dam 1993, 250-251, lightly modified (de Nie 2015, 625-627).
A little boy was given to a wet-nurse nurse for feeding, but the nurse also did not have milk, and so he was seriously starved. The boy's mother died, and he lived for almost a year close to death; a fever attacked him.
Ut autem eum hic fervor attigit, concurrit pater ad eclesiam, ne prolis absque baptismo fungeretur. Qui baptizatus nec confortatus corpore praeter illud spiritale remedium, iam suffossis oculis, iam palpebris laxatis atque demissis, iam nullum flatum spiraminis habens, super beatum sepulchrum, patre heiulante, deponitur. Nec defuit virtus illa caelestis, quae quondam parvulum inter manus confessoris vivificavit. At ubi primum huius vestimenta cooperturium tumuli attigit, ilico parvulus respiravit. Mirum miraculum videres pallentes genas gradatim, virtute divina insistente, rubescere et sopitos oculos in lumine redivivo laxari. Tunc a sancto vivificatus et a patre receptus, sospes usque hodie in testimonium virtutis habetur.
'When this fever assailed him, his father ran to the cathedral, so that his son would not die without being baptised. After his baptism the boy received no physical relief in addition to this spiritual cure; instead, with sunken eyes, his eyelids slackened and drooped, he no longer exhaled any breath. His father wept, and the young boy was placed on the blessed tomb. But that heavenly power that had once revived a young boy between the hands of the confessor was not lacking. For as soon as the covering over the tomb touched this young boy’s clothing, immediately he breathed again. This was a marvellous miracle! For you might see his pale cheeks gradually become red as the divine power took effect and his senseless eyes open as sight was restored. Then the young boy was revived by the saint and received again by his father. He is still healthy today as a witness to this miracle.'
Text: Krusch 1969, 174-175. Translation: Van Dam 1993, 250-251, lightly modified (de Nie 2015, 625-627).
History
Evidence ID
E03296Saint Name
Martin, ascetic and bishop of Tours (Gaul), ob. 397 : S00050Related Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - Collections of miraclesLanguage
- Latin