History of the FranksGregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint
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History of the Franks
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint
France -- Church history -- To 987; France -- History -- To 987; Franks -- History -- To 768
[5] Monod, _op. cit._ pp. 25 ff. See pp. 13, 84, 109, 140.
[6] _Gloria Martyrum_, c. 83.
[7] _De Virtut. S. Mart._ I, 36.
[8] _Vitæ Patrum_, VIII, 3.
[9] Bonnet, _Le Latin de Gregoire de Tours_, pp. 48-76.
[10] Speaking of Jupiter, Mercury, Minerva, Venus, a
character in the _Vitæ Patrum_, XVII, 5, says,
_Nolite, o viri, nolite eos invocare, non sunt enim
dii isti sed dæmones_.
[11] _Gloria Martyrum_, Pref.
[12] _Vitæ Patrum_, II, Pref.
[13] See p. 240.
[14] See p. 40.
[15] They are substantially the conclusions of Bonnet in
_Le Latin de Gregoire de Tours_, Paris, 1890.
[16] See p. 247. In the Arndt and Brusch edition in the
_Monumenta Germaniæ Historica_ we have all these
titles included. The commentary on the _Psalms_
however is in a fragmentary condition, and the _Lives
of the Fathers_ appears as one of eight books of
_Miracles_. The book on _Church Services_ is there
entitled _Account of the Movements of the Stars as
they ought to be observed in performing the Services_.
It is really a brief astronomical treatise the purpose
of which was in the absence of clocks to guide the
church services at night.
[17] The list as given by Manitius is as follows:
Chronicles of Jerome, Victor, Sulpicius
Severus; history of Orosius; church history of
Eusebius-Rufinus; life of St. Martin by Sulpicius
Severus; letters of Sidonius Apollinaris and
Ferreolus; writings of Avitus; histories of Renatus
Profuturus Frigeridus and Sulpicius Alexander
(not elsewhere known); annals of Arles, Angers,
Burgundy. _Geschichte der Lateinischen Litteratur des
Mittelalters_, p. 220.
[18] III, Pref. and IV, Pref.
[19] _H. F._, II, 13. Cf. V, 11. p. 113.
[20] Nunc autem cognovi quod magna est virtus eius beati
Martini. Nam ingrediente me atrium domus, vidi virum
senem exhibentem arborem in manu sua, quae mox
extensis ramis omne atrium texit. Ex ea enim unus me
adtigit ramus, de cuius ictu turbatus corrui. VII, 42.
[21] See pp. 38, 162, 185, 205.
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