ABSTRACT
His immense literary popUlarity Sulpicius Severus owes to his works on St l\brtin: his Life, written during the last months of 396 and appearing in 397, after the death of Martin; the three complementary letters recording his last moments; and the two Dialogues 1 only published in 403-4. These last are made up of a conversation lasting two days between Sulpicius Severus, Gallus, a former monk from Marmoutier and a pupil of St Martin, and one Postumianus returned from the East, during which they compare some of the wonders wrought by St Martin with those of the Eastern Christian ascetics.
