Then the bishop went even as the angel bade him,
and every gate was opened before him
until he suddenly stood before the emperor.
Then the emperor was angry at his entrance,
and would not welcome him, but there appeared a miracle of God,
so that heavenly fire hung over his throne,
and set light to the throne, and would have done the same to himself
if he had not very quickly arisen, his anger being cast away;
and, being divinely terrified, kissed the bishop
whom he had before determined to scorn with insult.
Then he promised amendment forthwith to the bishop,
and granted him all that he required
before he asked him, and spake friendly to him
and offered him many gifts; but he would not receive them,
XXIII. Often Martin saw angels come to him
so that they spake familiarly to the saint;
and on one occasion an angel told him
what the other bishops had spoken in their synod,
and thus the saint knew what they had there decreed,
by the angel's saying, though he himself went not thither.
The holy apostles Peter and Paul he saw frequently,
even as he said himself to Sulpicius the writer,
who durst ask him anything that he would.
The same Sulpicius and another brother
sat one day, greatly afraid,
before Martin's room, and he knew not that they were outside;
then heard they some one conferring with Martin a long while,
and he had previously been locked in alone in the house.
Afterwards, as he came out, Sulpicius asked
and humbly besought him that he would reveal to him
who had been speaking with him; then he hesitated long
