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
