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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 4, 19. Of the Death of the Holy Medard, the Bishop
It was in the time of Lothar that the holy man of God, the bishop Médard, finished the course of his good deeds, dying full of days and eminent in holiness. King Lothar buried him with the highest honour in the city of Soissons, and began to build a church over his tomb, which afterwards his son Sigibert completed and furnished. At this blessed tomb I have seen the chains and shackles of prisoners lying sundered and broken in pieces, preserved to this day at the very resting-place of the saint for a testimony of his power. Let me now take up once more the thread of the history.