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248 Lives of the Saints. [Nov.h.
reputed saint, at which one of the preceding bishops of Tours,
S. Lidorius or S. Gatianus, or perhaps some other bishop
whose name has not come down to us, had raised an altar.
The people held the relics of this saint in high honour, and
flocked to it to obtain the intercession of the martyr, and
the miraculous cure of their infirmities. S. Martin had his
suspicions that this martyr whom the people and his predecessors honoured was not of such a character as deserved
commemoration. He instituted close inquiries, and found
that instead of being a martyr, the man had been a highway
robber, executed on the spot for his crimes. Sulpicius says
that Martin saw the ghost of the robber, who informed him.
that he was in hell, and not in heaven as the people supposed.1
Martin found that the country people were greatly addicted
to their old religion, and honoured a huge pine. He insisted
on cutting it down; and when he found that it would cause
a disturbance, and perhaps bloodshed, he offered to be
bound and sit where the tree would probably fall, if the
heathens would themselves cut down the tree. They consented, hoping to see the enemy of their religion crushed.
But the tree, instead of falling where ^Martin sat, crashed
down in an opposite direction. His escape from the death
that threatened him was the occasion of the conversion of a
number of peasants. Martin pulled down their temple, and
built a church on the site. Wherever he went, he destroyed
with crowbar and firebrand the ancient temples in which
1 Guibert of Nogent, " De pignoribus Sanctorum," ed. d'AcheYy, Paris, 1651,
f- 337 s1.» says, that in the beginning of the 12th century all sorts of bones were
reverenced as those of confessors and martyrs; and that a drunken man who had
tumbled into a well was exalted into a martyr. In a village near Beauvais a youth
of no particular merit was regarded as a saint solely because he had died on Good
Friday, and the monks and abbot of the monastery church where he was buried
encouraged this devotion because it brought them in great gain. In every place,
says Guibert, old women canonize new saints by inventing all sorts of gossiping
stories about them. A priest exhibited a piece of bread with a bite taken out of it as
having been done by the teeth of Christ, and was furious with Guibert because he
would not accept it as real.
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| 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 | 00000294 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | -ft 248 Lives of the Saints. [Nov.h. reputed saint, at which one of the preceding bishops of Tours, S. Lidorius or S. Gatianus, or perhaps some other bishop whose name has not come down to us, had raised an altar. The people held the relics of this saint in high honour, and flocked to it to obtain the intercession of the martyr, and the miraculous cure of their infirmities. S. Martin had his suspicions that this martyr whom the people and his predecessors honoured was not of such a character as deserved commemoration. He instituted close inquiries, and found that instead of being a martyr, the man had been a highway robber, executed on the spot for his crimes. Sulpicius says that Martin saw the ghost of the robber, who informed him. that he was in hell, and not in heaven as the people supposed.1 Martin found that the country people were greatly addicted to their old religion, and honoured a huge pine. He insisted on cutting it down; and when he found that it would cause a disturbance, and perhaps bloodshed, he offered to be bound and sit where the tree would probably fall, if the heathens would themselves cut down the tree. They consented, hoping to see the enemy of their religion crushed. But the tree, instead of falling where ^Martin sat, crashed down in an opposite direction. His escape from the death that threatened him was the occasion of the conversion of a number of peasants. Martin pulled down their temple, and built a church on the site. Wherever he went, he destroyed with crowbar and firebrand the ancient temples in which 1 Guibert of Nogent, " De pignoribus Sanctorum," ed. d'AcheYy, Paris, 1651, f- 337 s1.» says, that in the beginning of the 12th century all sorts of bones were reverenced as those of confessors and martyrs; and that a drunken man who had tumbled into a well was exalted into a martyr. In a village near Beauvais a youth of no particular merit was regarded as a saint solely because he had died on Good Friday, and the monks and abbot of the monastery church where he was buried encouraged this devotion because it brought them in great gain. In every place, says Guibert, old women canonize new saints by inventing all sorts of gossiping stories about them. A priest exhibited a piece of bread with a bite taken out of it as having been done by the teeth of Christ, and was furious with Guibert because he would not accept it as real. ft- |
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