E00293: Gregory of Tours, in his Life of *Senoch (ascetic and miracle-worker near Tours, ob. 576, S00116), describes the death, posthumous cult and miracles of *Senoch (ascetic and miracle-worker near Tours, ob. 576, S00116); all near Tours (north-west Gaul). From Gregory's Life of the Fathers, written in Latin in Tours, 573/594.

Gregory of Tours, Life of the Fathers 15.4

(...) Cum esset annorum circiter quadraginta, modica pulsatus a febre, per triduum lectulo decubavit. Nuntiatumque est mihi, cum transitu esset propinquum. At ego velocius illuc properans, ad lectulum eius accessi, sed nihil ab eo conlocutionis elicere potui. Erat enim valde defessus. Dehinc interposito quasi unius horae spatio spiritum exalavit. Congregataque est ad eius exequias multitudo illa redemptorum, quos supra diximus ab eo vel a iugo servitutis vel a diversis debitis absolutos, quos vel alebat cibo vel vestitu tegebat. Plangebant enim dicentes: "Cui nos, pater sanctae, relinques?" Post haec sepulturae locatus, saepius se manifestis virtutibus declaravit. Nam trigesimo ab eius obitu die, cum ad eius tumulum missa celebraretur, Chaidulfus quidam contractus, dum stipem postulat, ad eius sepulturam accedit. Qui dum pallam superpositam osculis veneratur, dissolutis membrorum ligaturis, directus est. Sed et multa alia ibi gesta conperi, de quibus haec tantum memoriae habenda mandavi.

'Having attained the age of about forty years he [Senoch] was taken by a small fever which kept him in bed for about three days. Someone then announced to me that his end was near. I hurried there, approached his bedside, but I was not able to get any word out of him, for he was very weak, and after about an hour he gave up the spirit. To his funeral came that crowd of people whom he had ransomed, that is to say, those whom we have mentioned whom he freed from either servitude or debt, and those whom he had nourished and clothed. They mourned, saying "To whom do you leave us, holy father?" Later, when he was lying in his grave he often manifested himself by evident miracles. The thirtieth day after his death, when a Mass was being celebrated at his tomb, a paralysed man called Chaidulf, who had come to ask for alms, recovered the use of his limbs as soon as he had kissed the cloth which covered the tomb (pallam superpositam). I have known many other miracles which happened in this place, but I think that these are enough to recall his memory.'

Text: Krusch 1969, 273-274. Translation: James 1991, 99.