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The Church Fathers · c. 585–590

The Glory of the Martyrs

In Gloria Martyrum

Gregory of Tours · c. 538 – 594

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What it is

A hundred and six short chapters on relics and what they did: oil that flowed, a candle that would not go out, thieves struck down, and a Jewish man who took an icon and was found out by the blood it wept.

Why it lasted

The clearest window into what sixth-century Gaul actually believed and practised, as distinct from what its bishops wrote in treatises. Gregory reports each story with its source, which makes it usable as evidence rather than only as devotion.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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