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Saint Martial was the first Bishop of Limoges , in today's France , according to a life of Saturninus , first Bishop Of Toulouse , which Gregory Of Tours quotes in his ''History of the Franks.'' LIFE That is all that is known and it may be summed up thus: Under the Emperor Decius and of Gratus ( to Tours , Trophimus to Arles , Paul to Narbonne , Saturnin to Toulouse , Denis to Paris , Austromoine to Clermont , and Martial to Limoges. ABBEY Martial was buried outside the Roman town, and as his tomb became progressively more important as a Pilgrimage site, the monks found patronage in the Benedictine Order in the 9th Century . The site became the Benedictine Abbey Of Saint-Martial , a great Library (second only to the library at Cluny ) and Scriptorium . The 12th-century Chronicle r Geoffroy Du Breuil Of Vigeois worked in its library. The abbaye de Saint-Martial, one of the great pilgrimage churches of western Christianity, was so thoroughly razed in the 19th Century , that only the scattered Manuscript s of its library remain. Some of the abbey's library had been bought for Louis XV and have come to the Bibliothèque Nationale De France . The original Crypt was exhumed in 1966 - 1970 . Twelve Romanesque carved capitals were discovered built into the foundations of a barn and purchased in 1994 for the Museum of the Bishopric of Limoges. HAGIOGRAPHY The influx of himself, he is said to have evangelized not only the Province of Limoges but all of Aquitaine . He performed many Miracle s, among others the raising of a dead man to life, by touching him with a rod that St. Peter had given him. The mythology culminated in the 11th Century Forgeries of Ademar Of Chabannes , The ''Life of St. Martial'', attributed to Bishop Aurelian , his successor, which was designed to 'prove' that Martial had been present at The Last Supper and at the Crucifixion , and was indeed one of the original Apostle s. The legendary Martial appears with many miracles, casting out fiends and raising the dead and encouraging mass Baptism s, in the 13th Century compendium of lore, the '' Golden Legend ''. As late as 1854, Mons. Buissas, Bishop of Limoges, petitioned Pope Pius IX to bestow on Martial the honors of a disciple of Christ, but was turned down. The full discovery of Ademar's tissue of forged documents, including an imaginary church council and a papal letter, was not revealed until the 1920s , and continued for several generations to be resisted in conservative Catholic circles. |