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Nov. ii.]
S.Martin. 247
lest he should attempt to return, and others, encircling
him, conducted him in triumph to Tours. The bishops
present to consecrate a successor to S. Lidorius objected.
Martin, they said, was not a suitable person to be a bishop ;
he was dirty, badly clothed, and with his hair rumpled and
uncombed. But the people were bent on having him as
their pastor, and the bishops were obliged to yield. Amongst
those who objected most strenuously to his consecration was
Defensor, bishop (it is believed) of Angers. During the
ceremony, so great was the crowd, that the lector could not
work his way through the throng to his place to read the
lesson. There was a pause; the clergy waited, and then
one took up a psalter, and opening it at random to read
any passage in place of the lesson, lit on the words of the
psalm: " Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast
Thou ordained praise, that Thou mightest still the enemy and
the Defender?l At these words the people gave a shout,
and the unfortunate bishop Defensor was covered with
confusion.
Martin remained a monk, after having been made a bishop.
He lived for some time in a cell near the church. But
being wearied with the number of visitors who came to him,
he removed to the place where afterwards stood the abbey
of Marmoutier, in a lonely spot on the banks of the Loire,
shut in by sandstone cliffs and forest, and only to be reached
by a narrow path. Martin lodged in a cabin made of
branches; several of his monks bored out caves in the sandstone, and made themselves by this means commodious
dwellings. Martin had eighty disciples. They dressed in
skins, ate only once a day, drank no wine, and had all things
in common.
Not far from Tours, near the monastery, was a tomb of a
1 The old Gallic version of the Psalms before the Vulgate was introduced, which
has "ultorem," not "defensorem."
ft —ft
| Title | The lives of the saints - 13 |
| Creator | Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) |
| Publisher | J. Grant |
| Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
| Date | 1914 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000293 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | Nov. ii.] S.Martin. 247 lest he should attempt to return, and others, encircling him, conducted him in triumph to Tours. The bishops present to consecrate a successor to S. Lidorius objected. Martin, they said, was not a suitable person to be a bishop ; he was dirty, badly clothed, and with his hair rumpled and uncombed. But the people were bent on having him as their pastor, and the bishops were obliged to yield. Amongst those who objected most strenuously to his consecration was Defensor, bishop (it is believed) of Angers. During the ceremony, so great was the crowd, that the lector could not work his way through the throng to his place to read the lesson. There was a pause; the clergy waited, and then one took up a psalter, and opening it at random to read any passage in place of the lesson, lit on the words of the psalm: " Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast Thou ordained praise, that Thou mightest still the enemy and the Defender?l At these words the people gave a shout, and the unfortunate bishop Defensor was covered with confusion. Martin remained a monk, after having been made a bishop. He lived for some time in a cell near the church. But being wearied with the number of visitors who came to him, he removed to the place where afterwards stood the abbey of Marmoutier, in a lonely spot on the banks of the Loire, shut in by sandstone cliffs and forest, and only to be reached by a narrow path. Martin lodged in a cabin made of branches; several of his monks bored out caves in the sandstone, and made themselves by this means commodious dwellings. Martin had eighty disciples. They dressed in skins, ate only once a day, drank no wine, and had all things in common. Not far from Tours, near the monastery, was a tomb of a 1 The old Gallic version of the Psalms before the Vulgate was introduced, which has "ultorem," not "defensorem." ft —ft |
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