In his life
After he was made bishop, Martin moved out of Tours to a quiet bend of the Loire, where he lived in a wooden hut. About eighty monks gathered round him, many in cells cut into the cliff.
V. The hut → VIII. The banquet and the Devil in purple →
There today
The great abbey that grew here was largely demolished in the nineteenth century. The cliff, the rock-cut chapels and part of the walls remain, on the edge of Tours, and can be seen on guided visits.
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