Martin
And this will happen in the above-mentioned days: slaves will marry with the daughters of their masters and the lowly with the nobility, and they will bring forth sons and daughters, and judges and leaders will be born from this defilement, and they will overthrow the earth. And many who do not bear reproach will leave their cities and their homes and will wander in alien lands, and the camps of the church will be overturned and the priests scattered and the nuns, willingly and unwillingly, will be oppressed by individual men, and some will have abortions, lest the fruit of their womb becomes both witness and betrayer. These few things, brothers, derive from the depths .l.l.14 .l.l. since I am consumed by a pain in the head, “but however,” according to the words of blessed Job, “who can withhold the words he hath conceived?”15 Stand, most wise, and struggle with the most pernicious enemy; may your head not suffer pain, may your eye not cloud over, may your ears not become deaf, may your mouth not be quiet, may your tongue not be silent, may your hands not rest from [making] the sign of the cross, may your arms not wither, may your heart not swell, may the spirit of your chest not freeze, may your stomach not be extended double, may your knees not lock, no bent back, no unbending knees, no lazy feet, but may your stable body be entirely strong. Be, God willing, perfect, just as this most blessed Gratiosus was all the days of his life. He died on the twenty-third day of the month of February, and was buried in the church of St. Apollinaris, priest and martyr of Christ, in the city of Classe. He sat three years, eleven days.16 CONCERNING HOLY MARTIN, C. 810–18 . Martin, the forty-sixth bishop. He had a tall stature, a large head, and was bald, exceedingly fat, from the monasterium of St. An- . Several words seem to be missing from the text, although there is no gap in the manuscript. . Job :. .The life of the next bishop,Valerius, is missing from the manuscript. drew which is located not far from the church of the Goths; he was archdeacon of this see, and obtained his see almost eighty years ago,1 he was consecrated in Rome at the hands of Pope Leo III. When he had returned from Rome, he sent his messengers to Francia, to the Emperor Charles, and the emperor was pleased. He gave the monasterium of St. Mary which is called ad Blachernae to the priest Andrew, who was still a boy;2 and the said bishop received from him two hundred gold solidi for the use of his church; and he made from it a small gold liturgical vase, using more gold, in the shape of a seashell, and it is used for the chrism up to the present day. He was so huge in his body, as I said, that the said two hundred solidi, which I gave him in both my hands, he held in his left hand alone; and the Ravennate leaders of this city, together with the priests, were amazed at seeing this. . This bishop restored the church of St. Euphemia which is called ad Arietem, which was formerly covered by water. In his reign Pepin, king of the Lombards, died, and with the passing of time the Emperor Charles died on the thirtieth day of the month of January, and Louis, his son, took over the empire in his place. Now in his reign Leo, bishop of the church and city of Rome, sent his attendant, by the name of Chrisafus, and other workmen, and he restored the roofs of St. Apollinaris,3 everything with beams and panels of fir, and all the coverings of that martyr; together with his expenditure all the suburban cities brought all the beams and roof-tile supports and all fir beams and whatever else was necessary, with the Ravennate citizens working in corvée labor with ropes and other devices. And the workmen arranged the . Martin was bishop circa –; “almost eighty years ago,” indicating a date of around , must refer to the time in which Martin came to Ravenna, perhaps from elsewhere, or was consecrated as a priest. Or perhaps the number is an error. .This is, of course, Agnellus himself. . Agnellus may have known Chrisafus personally, since he mentions him by name. This...
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