Saint Martin of Tours and the Catechumen: A Miracle Written Down While He Was Alive

1771 map of Poitou, Touraine and Anjou, the region of Martin's monasteries

The Church remembers Saint Martin of Tours on November 11. Among the stories told about him, one stands out for how close the writer stood to the man: the raising of a catechumen, recorded by Sulpicius Severus in a Life written before Martin himself had died. What the text says In chapter 7 of his … Read more