Miracula Martialis

The Miracula Martialis[1] is the earliest collection of reports of miracles worked through the intervention of Saint Martial (fl. 3rd century) and thus a key piece of his then still growing hagiography. Written in Latin, it was first compiled in the late 7th or early 8th century and added to until shortly after 854. Its oldest recorded miracles took place in the 7th century.[2]

This article is about the early medieval hagiography. For the similarly themed late medieval account, see Miracula sancti Martialis anno 1388 patrata.

The Miracula is a potentially useful historical source for a very obscure period in Aquitanian history. The earliest section of the Miracula, possibly from the late 7th century, gives a positive portrayal of Ebroin (died 680), the count of the palace, in contradistinction to that of the contemporary Passio Leudegarii, in which he is a most evil man.[3] It also recounts that in 675 the Aquitanian official Lupus attempted to make himself the king of an independent Aquitaine: ad sedem regam se adstare ("to stand himself on a royal seat").[4][5]

Editions
  • Full text in:
  • Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum latinorum Bibliothecae nationalis Parisiensis, I (1889), 198–209.
  • "Le livre des miracles de Saint-Martial, texte latin inédit du IXe siècle", ed. François Arbellot, Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique du Limousin 36 (1889), 339–375.
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References
  1. Full title: Miracula sancti Martialis episcopi Lemovicensis, "Miracles of Saint Martial, Bishop of Limoges".
  2. Auguste Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France: Des origines aux guerres d'Italie (1494), I. Époque primitive, mérovingiens et carolingiens (Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1901), p. 70, no. 206 (Miracula S. Martialis).
  3. Paul Fouracre and Richard Gerberding, edd., Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiography, 640–720 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996), p. 291n.
  4. Ian N. Wood, "Frankish Hegemony in England", The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe, ed. Martin Carver (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1992), p. 236.
  5. Archibald R. Lewis, "The Dukes in the Regnum Francorum, A.D. 550–751", Speculum 51.3 (1976), pp. 381–410, at 401.
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