XLIX. On Easter-days he would eat fish if he had it.
Then, on a certain Easter-day, he asked the steward
whether he had fish for the festival;
and he said in answer that they all could not,
neither the fishermen nor himself, catch even one sprat.
Then said the holy man; 'Cast out now thy net,
and a take of fish shall come to thee.' And he tried it immediately,
cast out his net, and there was within it
an enormous salmon; and he drew it up,
bare it home to the monastery and prepared it for the saint.
L. There was a certain believing nobleman called Licontius;
then it befell his servants that they all lay sick
of an indescribable disease; and he straightway sent
a letter to Martin, praying for some help.
Then the holy man perceived that they were afflicted
by divine might, and that he could easily
grant them the request; but he ceased not, nevertheless,
to intercede for them with a seven nights' fast,
until he obtained that for which he was praying.
Then Licontius came and made known to the saint,
with many thanks, that his household was delivered,
by means of Martin, from the manifold disease,
and brought the saint a hundred pounds (of silver) as an offering.
Then the holy man would not have the gift;
yet he did not despise it, but gave all the money
to afflicted men and to those who were in captivity,
and thus redeemed them out of misery.
Then the brothers earnestly besought the bishop
that he would put some part of the money into the monastery-coffer,
