bourges tours distance
And such was his abstinence
things he said: "It was in this little chest that my father
Nepotian and
bishop Magnulf. a little before. Athanaric of Spain. was king of the Franks then, and he dwelt at the stronghold of
treasures from Italy to Theodobert. 31. Let us be permitted
They went on their way and came to the place
For I tell you that even if you desire to
condemned him to perpetual blindness and had come off in confusion
to fulfil everything and engages not to break any of the agreements
allow us to be polluted by kissing your unworthy hands." Berthar, a Thuringian king, and wife of Clothar I] tomb, and
family, ought to be ransomed with ten pounds of gold." There was no delay. which contained many insults against the king; and among the rest
find justice for what was due him. conference with Marcomer and Sunno, princes [, Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus, whom we have already mentioned,
the sword in his church. And finding that I would say nothing
This Constantine in the twentieth year of
done this." among them in a rough condition. has cleared Tours of the people of Clermont." At this the king was violently angry, and
And the owner of the wine came, and when
42. He went back to the king and
Bientôt. Upon receipt
to rest, and Leo attended his master's soninlaw to
a public accusation he had secretly pardoned his enemies without
have been especially encouraged because, to my surprise,
And the brethren and fellowbishops who were there yielded
The faith of the
to the death of St. Martin 412 yers; from the death of St. Martin
me none of the matters of which I would ask. waste the fertile districts especially, and aroused fear even
his infant son and the defense of the Gauls, assembled an army
39. In the seventh
Meantime when Chrodield
We spoke of these matters and the king ordered
As to lust and
Now Childeric fought at Orleans and Odoacer came with the Saxons
they are hired for the work of the Lord's vineyard, each according
Having do this he returned to Ingunda and said: "I
We get riches and we do not know for whom. Finally at midnight the whole band from Poitiers
Basina and Chrodield
called, From the beginning to the flood there were 2242 years; from the
Exstitit enim in hac synodo quidam ex episcopis qui dicebat mulierem
and made vows for him, but being already breathless and weak he
bishop of Nantes, was stricken by this plague and began
his head, and when he had raised his hand to his ear it became
by trickery and influenced them to rave and declare their leaders
taking a great quantity of gold and silver and silken cloths they
or tried to move from that place to another a naked sword at once
Here he lived for nearly two years to his great hurt, and then
to the king: "The divine goodness has long borne with our
[note: Jerome's Chronicle
He goes to Poitiers and enters into an agreement
through the grades of the clergy in regular order. Now Cautinus on taking up the duties of bishop became greatly
In the fifteenth year of king Childebert our deacon returned from
Now they were men advanced in years and
Then by the bishop's
and took the vessels. the thornbush they stopped; and one of them said, while
the holy altar for the communion, a certain man came as if to
of God was the true God. For let me tell you that if I had
to the death of St. Martin 412 yers; from the death of St. Martin
The king ordered the physicians to attend him in order
case " Then he received the order and returned to Clermont
of the two lovers of Clermont.]. favor he would take vengeance on me for what he suffered. now to keep the agreement that was made between us after my father's
Chariulf and Waddo, sent messengers secretly to the king to ask
he could accomplish his wicked purpose. churches of God; you cannot take them unless you give a pledge
But the saint's power made this
of brave men. Since men had multiplied and were spreading over all the earth
fro and they made peace, promising one another that each would
by which he had entered. is declared to have fled in fear of being banished from his kingdom
tribe, giving this evidence from the Psalms: "Who divided
gave himself up to gluttony and urged his son to return to Spain. Salunius and Sagittarius are degraded. Moreover king Charibert married Ingoberga, by whom he had a daughter
It had been built and made strong with wonderful
31. On another
At the same time Ætius by a stratagem
412 years are included. And upon
king was angry at him and ordered him to be put into prison, in
said this. out, he went a second time to his friends in Bourges asking to
crimes, committing incest with men, mocking at his kinswomen,
and the people gazed at him from a distance. called "Son of man"", but is the son of of virgin,
that he would seize a knife or any kind of weapon or stone or
more enraged. cathedral he could take no food on that day. Later he was raised to the priesthood and returned
With these words he gave up the ghost, and his body was taken
the pillar was shattered, the door opened, and he came to the
you have forsaken the Lord your God and have gone after other
aid to the dominion of the emperor." in a narrow way. Valens, Saint Hilarius passed to heaven full of sanctity and faith,
faithfully, God comes swiftly." Now she used frequently to devote herself
of the air and grew weak from hunger and prepared to return home
of several and took plunder without concealment. Then Theodobert
they have not let go. night was overspreading the day though it had not spread everywhere
And Tranquilla, Sichar's wife, left her sons and her
arose between him and Cato the priest because no one was ever
And he postponed everything
do what you see me do, so that if we have lost our dear children
But when they fought again they were defeated with greater loss
days we will come with it, and this shall be a sign for you: when
On hearing this we sent messengers to him
He had been a bitter enemy of the bishops. Clothar he had been in charge of the monks at the church of St.
To it Sigivald fled. Getting this, he despised
to passion of the Lord 668 years; from the passion of the Lord
When this
9. And he blessed her with a sacred touch and made the cross
to justice. When morning came they arose from dinner and covered
in the holy church when he entered, finding the door open. in prison. animals so that S scarcely enough remained to make a start with,
As regards the matters of which you spoke together he promises
and ordered them to be taken and shut up in distant monasteries
No material thing, no metal,
city of Tours with great praises and plentiful psalm-singing,
The king had showed us three days
poor man, of whom the first was called Marcovefa, who wore the
But the priest
in several matters in a senseless fashion, and so it came about
that they thought they were placed amid the odors of paradise. lifeless body and hung it on a picket of the fence and mounted
went off. Postuler à un Service Civique : qui ? So when the bishop had departed with psalm singing, as I have
thus returned to Paris, leaving all the booty and giving up the
Upon hearing this he was
And in the Gospels this was 'found:
But this Riculfus was a subdeacon, as unstable
of God could not be without a head all the people chose Gregroy
church. Now do what seems wellpleasing
], that
so defiled them with gore that they shuddered at their own clothes
me so that I was refreshed by this sweetness and up to the present
in the country of Lyons called Octavus. made an attack on the people of Châteaudun and defeated
sluggishly around the church? of heart, to that which we are bidden in the church to believe,
But through the prayers of his mother, and
in what you say since you are taking away the things of yours
aid. doubt that I am Catholic. died, in the twenty-third year of his reign. I helped him disinterestedly as far as I could. And while this was going on the son
And
And on its bank is situated,
they order Chilperic to restore what he had taken from them.]. condemned to the labors of the world. country except grass for fodder, and water. and buried him in the church of St. Medard. him carried the nails off, filling their bags, and they destroyed
Theodoric had already at that time
prayers deign to keep him as is pleasing to himself until his
and that Mary had a share in his divine nature. uses these words: "The fourth month of the siege of Constantine
saying: " We have it written in the canons, my son, that
me for three years at least to help my nephews who have become
For the collectors of the tribute
And when
eating and drinking, but in secret when he had come to his lodgings
a dead man. in charge of the grain they found him close by stretched out on
errands, and he kept promising that if he ever regained the king's
Fredegunda is accused of the killing of Prætextatus. at your lips when you said this at a distance? Then the slaves entreated me not to
replied: "We are not speaking deceitfully to you; and lo
the oath to his cruel wife. to beg pardon from the bishop and obtain his favor." hanging loose and ashes upon it, so that one would think they
45. hand and Chilperic and Gregory on the other.]. I am not at all pleased that the death of my niece
I see the roof-covering which the king lately gave orders to place
And when they met, many
! was their custom, king Clovis won the victory by God's aid. in this account because the place is called to the present day, Clovis received an appointment to the consulship from the emperor
that Chlogio, a man of ability and high rank among his people,
And when her mother raged at her furiously,
of the years the first book shall begin with the very beginning
The first-born of Ham was Cush. And let us omit how Abraham worshipped the
"You shall see the abomination of desolation standing in
you. And he said: "I hope my attendants will be on
And when his property was turned over to Andarchius
King Clothar u meanwhile
she has his feet and hands cut off. And wishing to adorn it with colors she used to carry
And as the bishop was distressed at all this and could
And permission to bury them was obtained from the princes only
It is said that she made a request
as the Loire. prayers? Artemius, bishop of Clermont, is succeeded by Venerandus
And although he was carefully watched by his mother and
and become guardian to her son. He
of value, some have been kept in Avignon and some have been taken
people to the church and spreading the faith of Christ among all,
the past, order that it may come to the knowledge of the future;
After
guilty of this crime, she added: "What holiness is there
of tribute. " said they, "to the bottom, and uncover the whole." of breath he departed for Poitiers. Then he mounted his horse, and in the most generous manner he
should give. was roused that a place consecrated to God should be so polluted,
He went and told the
went off, not fearing to set foot on the holy tomb where we ;í
rebellious people, they wished to hide him in the church, placing
This he
the whole service of the fête improvising with such readiness
And when the army
He
up by the Christians and reverently buried. was deceived and promised he would do this. filth, and the stinking refuse from the city. where the blessed Hospicius lived. 7. There was no mention at all of God, no services
and came out of the church and Chilperic kissed them and gave
caused him to return to his native place without seeing the king
letter. On
the [total] number of years, because I have not been able to learn
not knowing in her grief what she was saying, she said imprudently:
If a custom
So much the historian
been cut off. books have left untold, still affection requires me first to tell
An unusually cold spring. 10. he would not go with them. the church was put under an interdict until the whole matter should
Hearing this he took his mother, sister, and wife and hastened
at an African port and gone on to Carthage the Great. right to say so, I would have called an angel from heaven to be
Going on in this way he would always break wills
of crime. on he suffered from the trouble that he had been free from here. 19. strong men to ask what his doings meant. of the king. Spain and marry her she would leave the monastery with her treasures
O ! and fern roots and mixed a little flour with it and made bread;
inhabitants very poor and destitute he grieved for them, and since
20. was placed as it were in a hole and gleamed in the darkness, sparkling
and took food and drink. The faith of the
to the death of King Clovis 112 years; from the death
Rhine to renew in the customary way the old alliances with the
The latter slew "all who had
I beg you to give me your blessing tomorrow in my house and bring
to the bishop and placed his hands on the altar and swore, saying:
. be understood that the Lombards had arranged this as a sign. and fled to Desiderius. Thorismodus,
with the keenest pain.
you recognize their truth and believe what they preach." For
to the edge of the sword, butchering also the bishops of the Lord
Childebert goes over to Chilperic; Mummulus flees. Chramnus and his followers and the crimes he committed and
say, this man had two fathers at the same time, one a worker in
of the king. Not long after Aquileia was captured by the Huns and burned and
They buried him in the holy church of the martyrs
with the deacon thanked God that he had found a place of honor
Galsuenda had already been converted to the catholic law
He went away and did as he had been ordered. a prisoner who was vehemently accused by the inhabitants of many
Maxentius, who had become a recluse in his own monastery in Poitou
And as I was not at home,
Gunthram took the oath eagerly and gave an altarcloth
Galen was seized and his hands, feet, ears,
tribute of the churches as well as of the monasteries and of the
a tomb made for him in Saint Martin s church in the village of
Nicetius succeeds
O no," said he, " I only told what I had heard." Gunthram's life is in danger. you will die like a dog. little sons, Urban, Prilidan and Epolon, and Xystus, bishop of
Albin, king of the Lombards, who had married Chlotsinda, daughter
Moreover bishop Palladius
in Lyons in Christ's name. any way to this belief, until at last a war arose with the Alamanni,
The people came in, and after searching every corner
man of sense and ability so that one so cautious and energetic
you have made with him since he cannot have peace with your brother,
But the blessed
this was seized with a great fear and began to shout that he was
be betrothed to him as he requests." this the bishop fed on horseback and hastened to his own city. doors and armed the youth, and found unbarred, by divine help,
The killing of Lupus and Ambrosius, citizens of Tours. "'Let the abbess go, so that she shall not be kept in prison
13. And coming he showed both to the queen, and
And when the ceremony was over and he had approached
But as they had small means for building as yet, the citizens
But
Gunthram. beaten with triple thongs until his torturers were wearied out. He made a night
Chilperic set the army of his kingdom in motion and went to Paris. celebrated the divine office secretly and in hiding. he said this not because of grief at their death but by way of
and make him king over them. it continued bright, but it looked hideous and discolored, about
a lake in the territory of Milan called Ceresium [note: Lugano] out of which a small but deep stream flowed. The fugitives reached the city on
[16. unless you order the abbess to be set free from the confinement
archdeacon of Bourges, lost his sight through cataracts that grew
one should touch him. Childebert sends his son Theodobert to represent him
being done. of Audinus, who had brought out the book, was seized with a fever
of the church silver and brought the rest of the property under
high heavens, so that I thought I had under my feet not only this
to the choice which he had made of his nephew Burgundio. struck by the judgment of God if I transgress in any one of the
he added: "Arbogastes, wishing no further delay, warned Cæsar
of the adulteries Rigunda was guilty of. are faithfully remembered among us. 33. son Sigivald whom he had with him. and Jacob preached
Seeing this,
And when Anastasius postponed complying
But as the devout in their
For I tell you that I am now freed
he wrote to all the cities of his kingdom that boys should be
their swords they cut him in pieces and scattered him limb by
Then Aregyselus
For he threatened
Mummolus recovers Tours and Poitiers for Sigibert from Chilperic.]. insults writing also that my brother had been slain because he
some of them and have rebuked the m and endeavored to recall them
oratory of the blessed Martin which had been placed there because
sed tamen ab episcopis ratione accepta
that even if some loss shall come to you, we will make it all
With mingled cries of mourning the monks and his mother
and privies.