Embrun No. 2 / Eburodunum

Corblet informs that the 6th century anonymous author of the "Actes de saint Marcellin, premier évêque d'Embrun, au IVe siècle" wrote about an annual miracle at the baptistery of Embrun. Corblet includes also the testimony of St. Gregory of Tours, who mentioned the baptistery which had been built near the large church erected by St-Marcellin; this work, said St. Gregory, was a "travail peu important, il est vrai, mais recommendable avant tout par un miracle divin"[=a minor work, true, but recommended especially through a divine miracle] The much-reported miracle tells of a font with a water whose shine surpasses even that of polished silver and that only runs for seven days a year, the seven days of Holy Week; on the eighth day its waters begin to flow less and less until it totaly dries up until the following year, on the same date, when it flows anew. Gregory speaks of the powers of these waters which cure all manner of sickness, not only in the past but "c'est un fait qui se reproduit de nos jours"[=a feat which continues to occur to this day] (In Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 61-62)