Sulpitius Severus on his friend Martin of Tours, the soldier who became a monk and bishop: the Life of Saint Martin, three letters, the three Dialogues on the monks of the East and on Martin, the doubtful letters, and his Sacred History, a short history of the world from the creation to the year 400. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
Dialogue 1
1Postumianus Comes Home from the East2A Request for News of the East3The Voyage to Africa4The Old Man in the Desert Hut5The Presbyter Who Refused Gold6The Quarrel over Origen’s Books7Origen Condemned at Alexandria8Jerome at Bethlehem9Six Months with Jerome10The Boys and the Asp11Bread from Heaven12Two Old Men, and a Word on Anger13The Monk with the Ox and the Lion14The Wolf That Stole a Loaf15The Lioness and Her Blind Cubs16The Ibex and the Poisonous Roots17Sinai and the Monasteries of the Nile18The Man Who Walked into the Fire19The Dry Twig That Grew Green20The Healer Who Asked to Be Possessed21Our Own Vanity22The Monk Who Left the Desert23How Far the Book About Martin Had Traveled24Martin Compared with the Monks of the Desert25Martin Had the Virtues of Them All26Martin in a Place of His Own27The Gaul Agrees to Speak