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 save in  the  same  form  wherein  He  suffered;

and unless  He  show  the  same  scars

of the  Holy  Rood  on  which  he  was  hung.'

The devil  straightway  vanished  like  smoke

from the  saint's  sight,  and  the  house  was  filled

with overpowering  stench,  so  that  men  could  easily  know

that it  was  the  devil  who  desired  to  deceive  him;

and Martin  told  this  to  Sulpicius  the  writer.

XXVI. On one  occasion  came  the  devil  with  horrible  roaring

to the  holy  man,  having  an  ox-horn  in  his  hand,

and said  to  Martin,  '  Where  is  now  thy  might?

I have  now  slain  a  man  of  thy  household.'

And his  right  hand  was  as  if  blood-stained.

Then Martin  called  his  monks  to  him,

and told  what  the  devil  had  revealed  to  him,

and bade  seek  diligently  who  was  there  slain.

There was  a  servant  gone  at  that  time  to  the  wood,

who lay  wounded  by  the  way  half  alive;

and he  therewith  told  that,  as  he  was  yoking  his  oxen,

one shook  its  head  and  pushed  him  with  his  horn

with very  great  force;    and  soon  after  he  died.

Many things  the  holy  man  knew

long before  they  happened,  and  told  the  faithful  monks

the things  which  had  been  revealed  to  him,

and afterward  it  alway  came  to  pass  as  he  had  told  them.

XXVII. A certain  professing  monk  was  called  Anatolius,

of youthful  age,  who  dwelt  some  time

close to  Martin's  monastery  with  an  illustrious  elder

called Clarus;    and  hid  his  evilness.

He showed  outwardly  all  humility