LV. While the holy man's body was still lying within,
there came there a great multitude from many cities,
and the Poitevin folk no less than the people of Tours,
and there was a strife betwixt the two peoples.
Then said the Poitevins who had come thither;
'He was our monk and also our abbot,
we desire to have him because we lent him formerly;
ye have enjoyed his words and profited by his teaching,
ye have conversed with him and been strengthened by his blessings,
and have been gladdened by manifold wonders;
let all this be enough for you. Let us now at least
convey his soulless body with us.'
Then the men of Tours answered thus;
'If ye say that his miracles are enough for us,
then know ye that he wrought more miracles with you
than he did with us; and although we pass over many,
for you he raised verily two dead men
and for us but one; and so he often said,
that he had more might in the monastic office
than in the episcopal office, and we have now need
that he, being dead, should accomplish that which he did not in life.
From you he was taken away and given to us by God,
and after the old tradition he ought to have a sepulchre
in the same city where he was bishop.
If ye desire to have him for the sake of the monastery
and because he was with you, then know ye this,
that he had a monastery in Milan at the first.'
In the midst of this dispute the day came to an end,
