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Quotation from Life of St. Martin by Sulpitius Severus; Alexander Roberts
“But, after the lapse only of a few days, the catechumen, seized with a languor, began to suffer from a violent fever”
Life of St. Martin, Life of St. Martin, Ch. 7, trans. Alexander Roberts (1894)
The first resurrection miracle begins with an ordinary sickroom detail: sudden fever before baptism.
Citation: "But, after the lapse only of a few days, the catechumen, seized with a languor, began to suffer from a violent fever" — Sulpitius Severus; Alexander Roberts, Life of St. Martin, Life of St. Martin, Ch. 7, trans. Alexander Roberts (1894). (id life-of-st-martin-q3)
Portrait: Freskenzyklus mit Szenen aus dem Leben des Hl. Martin von Tours, Kapelle in Unterkirche San Francesco in Assisi, Szene: Der meditierende Heilige, Detail, Simone Martini, Public domain.
