E05140: Gregory of Tours, in his Miracles of Julian (3), tells how many people are healed after they touch or drink the water from the spring at Brioude (central Gaul) in which the head of *Julian (martyr of Brioude, S00035) was washed after his martyrdom. Written in Latin in Clermont and Tours (central and north-west Gaul), 570/587.

Gregory of Tours, Miracles of Julian (Liber de passione et virtutibus sancti Iuliani martyris) 3

In loco autem illo quo beatus martyr percussus est fons habetur splendidus, lenis, dulcibus aquis uberrimus, in quo et a persecutoribus caput amputatum ablutum est, de quibus aquis multae sanitates tribuuntur infirmis. Nam saepe caecorum oculi ab his tacti inluminati sunt; tertianorum, quartanariorum febrium accensi, ut potati qui patiuntur fuerint, conquiescunt. Nam et si quis gravi laborans incommodo, inspirante martyre, desiderium habuerit hauriendi, protinus ut hauserit convalescit; et ita velociter extinguitur vis febrium, ceu si videas, super inmensum rogum proiectis undis incendia universa restingui.

'At the spot where the blessed martyr was beheaded, there is a sparkling spring that is gentle and filled with sweet water. [Julian’s] head, after it had been cut off by his persecutors, was washed in this spring; and many cures are offered to ill people from its water. For often the eyes of the blind are illuminated after being touched by these waters, and people who suffer and burn from tertian and quartan fevers are calm once they have swallowed [some water]. And if anyone who is in pain from a serious misfortune wishes, at the urging of the martyr, to drink [from the spring], immediately upon drinking he recovers. The burning of fevers is quenched as quickly as if you were to see waves tossed on a huge funeral pyre and all its flames extinguished.'

Text: Krusch 1969, 123-124. Translation: Van Dam 1993, 166.