Karen Jolly wrote:
>Gregory of Tours tells stories of the nun Monegundis in both the
"Life of the Fathers" and the "Glory of the Confessors."
And a stirring tale it is too, his "book" devoted to her in the "Confessors".
Not much there about Chartres, though--for some reason Gregory seems focused
on Tours & St. Martin.
>Her healing powers continued to flow at her tomb for those coming to it with
similar afflictions.
Interesting how Greg throws in a couple of times how she would defer to, or
send folks to, St. Martin--whose establishment was in pretty much the same
business, pretty close by.
But I liked the part best where "While these things were happening [her
miracle healings in Tours], her husband, having heard of the reputation
of the saint, assembled his friends and neighbors and came after her and
brought her back with him and put her in that same cell in which she had lived
before."
That'll teach em to go walk-about, settin up shop in exotic places!
Curious that Gregory sorta glosses over the part about how, exactly, she got
back to Tours: "She came to the basilica [St.M. @ Tours] and returned to the
same cell she had inhabited before; she stayed there without any trouble [in
eo perstitit inconcussa], without being sought for again by her husband."
So many lines to read between.
Thanks, Karen.
Best from here,
Christopher
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