Alcuin of YorkLectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908 . St. Martins, Tours; the Tour Charlemagne, with the dome of the newSt. Martins on the left. To face. p. ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. MARTIN. 213 bank of the Loire, and deposited in a small oratory;the spot was called the Station of the Body ofSt. Martin. It was moved thence to a more cen-tral spot, and miracles began to be wrought at itsnew abode. Briccius, his successor in the bishopric,built a church over it in the eleventh year after theSaints death. Perpetuus removed this church andbuilt a more magnificent s
Alcuin of YorkLectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908 . St. Martins, Tours; the Tour Charlemagne, with the dome of the newSt. Martins on the left. To face. p. ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. MARTIN. 213 bank of the Loire, and deposited in a small oratory;the spot was called the Station of the Body ofSt. Martin. It was moved thence to a more cen-tral spot, and miracles began to be wrought at itsnew abode. Briccius, his successor in the bishopric,built a church over it in the eleventh year after theSaints death. Perpetuus removed this church andbuilt a more magnificent structure. The rich giftsof kings and others made the church of Perpetuusvery beautiful. St. Odo, in a sermon on its de-struction by fire, described it as lined with variouscoloured marbles; in one place the walls were redwith Protonis marble, in another white with Parian,in another green with Prasine. This church wasburned by Willicharius. Chlotaire I rebuilt it. TheNormans burned it again in 853 and 903, and soonafter the year 1000 it was rebuilt by Hervey theTreasurer in the form in which it existed to thetime of the Revolution. The Calvinists pillagedit, as has been said above. At the
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