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Gregory of Tours, acclaimed as the father of French history, also wrote extensively about holy men and women, and about wondrous events--miracles. The conversational stories in Lives and Miracles relate what Gregory viewed as the visible results of holy power, direct or mediated, at work in the world.

Gregory of tours wrote this dramatic narrative of sixth-century French history as a chronicle of the events leading up to and including his 21-year tenure as bishop of tours.