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History of the Franks

by Gregory of Tours

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Here Begin the Chapters of the First Book

1. Adam and Eve.

2. Cain and Abel.

3. Enoch the Just.

4. The flood.

5. Cush, inventor of idols.

6. Babylonia.

7. Abraham and Ninus.

8. Isaac, Esau, Job and Jacob.

9. Joseph in Egypt.

10. Crossing of the Red Sea.

11. The people in the desert and Joshua.

12. The captivity of the people of Israel and the generations to David.

13. Solomon and the building of the Temple.

14. The division of the kingdom of Israel.

15. The captivity in Babylonia.

16. Birth of Christ.

17. The various kingdoms of the nations.

18. When Lyons was founded.

19. The gifts of the magi and the slaughter of the infants.

20. The miracles and suffering of Christ.

21. Joseph who buried Him.

22. James the apostle.

23. The day of the Lord’s resurrection.

24. The ascension of the Lord and the death of Pilate and Herod.

25. The suffering of the Apostles and Nero.

26. James, Mark and John the evangelist.

27. The persecution under Trajan.

28. Hadrian and the heretics’ lies and the martyrdom of Saint Polycarp and Justin.

29. Saints Photinus, Irenæus and the rest of the martyrs of Lyons.

30. The seven men sent into the Gauls to preach.

31. The church of Bourges.

32. Chrocus and the shrine in Auvergne.

33. The martyrs who suffered in Auvergne.

34. The holy martyr, Privatus.

35. Quirinus, bishop and martyr.

36. Birth of St. Martin and the finding of the cross.

37. James, bishop of Nisibis.

38. Death of the monk Antony.

39. The coming of St. Martin.

40. The matron Melania.

41. Death of the emperor Valens.

42. Imperial rule of Theodosius.

43. Death of the tyrant Maximus.

44. Urbicus, bishop of Auvergne.

45. The holy bishop Hillidius.

46. The bishops Nepotian and Arthemius.

47. The chastity of the lovers.

48. St. Martin’s death.

IN CHRIST’S NAME HERE END THE CHAPTERS OF THE FIRST BOOK

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