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Life of St. Martin
Alexander Roberts's NPNF public-domain translation of Sulpitius Severus ยท Alexander Roberts (1894)
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Source: Partial public-domain source packet from Sulpitius Severus, Life of St. Martin, Dialogues, and Letters, translated by Alexander Roberts in A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series, Volume 11 (New York, 1894). Coverage: Partial. Representative passages on the cloak, poison, resurrection/healing, exorcistic conflict, death, and the leper at Paris. It is not the complete
Life of St. Martin
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Life of St. Martin
Taking, therefore, his sword with which he was girt, he divided his cloak into two equal parts, and gave one part to the poor man, while he again clothed himself with the remainder.
Ere long, he heard Jesus saying with a clear voice to the multitude of angels standing round - Martin, who is still but a catechumen, clothed me with this robe.
Here he subsisted for some time on the roots of plants; and, while doing so, he took for food hellebore, which is, as people say, a poisonous kind of grass.
But, after the lapse only of a few days, the catechumen, seized with a languor, began to suffer from a violent fever.
He saw the dead man begin to move a little in all his memb
Letter on Martin's death
ers, and to tremble with his eyes opened for the practice of sight.
Letter on Martin's death
Accordingly, though he was for some days under the influence of a strong fever, he nevertheless did not abandon the work of God.
O Lord, if I am still nec
Dialogue tradition
essary to your people, I do not shrink from toil: your will be done.
Dialogue tradition
At Paris, when he was entering the gate of the city, with a large crowd attending him, he kissed and blessed a leper, of miserable appearance and horrible countenance, while all shuddered at doing so.