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Dialogues on St. Martin

Sulpicius Severus · c. 404

St. Martin of Tours · image, public domain

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A friend returns from the deserts of Egypt with stories of the monks there, and Sulpicius and his friends answer with stories of St. Martin. Three dialogues, full of miracles and the daily life of a holy bishop.

Read it after the Life of St. Martin.

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Translated by Alexander Roberts, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 11 (1894), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.

This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.

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