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E00225: Gregory of Tours, in his Life of Aemilianus and Brachio (hermit, and monastic founder of the Auvergne and Touraine, ob. 535/550 and 576, S00087), recounts how Brachio was first buried in the oratory of his first cell; two years later his uncorrupt body was transferred to the burial site he himself had chosen; all in the Auvergne (central Gaul). From Gregory's Life of the Fathers, written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594.
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posted on 2014-12-03, 00:00 authored by pnowakowskiGregory of Tours, Life of the Fathers 12.3
Brachio sees in a dream the seraphim and the Prophet Isaiah and interprets this as a sign of his approaching death.
(Ch.3) ... dicit abbati, quem in priore statuerat monasterio: "Locus ille secus fluvium, in quo oratorium facere conputabam, iocundus est valde. Ideo rogo, ut quod ego volui, tu expleas atque ibi ossa mea transferre non abnuas". Quo migrante et in oratorio prioris cellulae sepulto, cum abba iniunctum cuperet opus explere, nutu Dei et calces coctos antiquitus et fundamentum in ea mensura qua ipse ponere cogitabat nanctus est. Perfectumque aedificium, detexit abbatis sepulchrum. Quo patefacto, [ita] repperit corpusculum inlaesum, ut putaretur ante diem alterum fuisse defunctum; et sic cum gaudio, prosequente caterva monachorum, quam ipse edocuerat, in loco illo post duos annos translatus est.
'He says to the abbot whom he had appointed in the first monastery: "The place near the river, where I had thought of building an oratory, is very pleasant. I beg you to carry out my wish, which is that my bones should be laid there." When he died he was buried in the oratory of his former cell. But the abbot wished to carry out the wish of the saint, and with God's permission he put together in that place lime which had been long prepared, and foundations of the size he wanted. Then, the work being finished, he opened the grave of Abbot Brachio, whose body remained intact as if he had died the day before; and thus, two years after his death, he was transferred (translatus est) to that place with great joy by the congregation of monks that he himself had instructed.'
Text: Krusch 1969, 264-265. Translation: James 1991, 85. Summary: Marta Tycner.
Brachio sees in a dream the seraphim and the Prophet Isaiah and interprets this as a sign of his approaching death.
(Ch.3) ... dicit abbati, quem in priore statuerat monasterio: "Locus ille secus fluvium, in quo oratorium facere conputabam, iocundus est valde. Ideo rogo, ut quod ego volui, tu expleas atque ibi ossa mea transferre non abnuas". Quo migrante et in oratorio prioris cellulae sepulto, cum abba iniunctum cuperet opus explere, nutu Dei et calces coctos antiquitus et fundamentum in ea mensura qua ipse ponere cogitabat nanctus est. Perfectumque aedificium, detexit abbatis sepulchrum. Quo patefacto, [ita] repperit corpusculum inlaesum, ut putaretur ante diem alterum fuisse defunctum; et sic cum gaudio, prosequente caterva monachorum, quam ipse edocuerat, in loco illo post duos annos translatus est.
'He says to the abbot whom he had appointed in the first monastery: "The place near the river, where I had thought of building an oratory, is very pleasant. I beg you to carry out my wish, which is that my bones should be laid there." When he died he was buried in the oratory of his former cell. But the abbot wished to carry out the wish of the saint, and with God's permission he put together in that place lime which had been long prepared, and foundations of the size he wanted. Then, the work being finished, he opened the grave of Abbot Brachio, whose body remained intact as if he had died the day before; and thus, two years after his death, he was transferred (translatus est) to that place with great joy by the congregation of monks that he himself had instructed.'
Text: Krusch 1969, 264-265. Translation: James 1991, 85. Summary: Marta Tycner.
History
Evidence ID
E00225Saint Name
Brachio, abbot of Menat in Gaul, ob. 576 : S00087Related Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - Lives of saintLanguage
- Latin