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Saint Gregory of Tours (November 30, c. 538 - November 17, 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-gra
Gregory of Tours served as bishop of Tours, then a city in the Frankish kingdom, from 573 to 594. Acclaimed by the French as the father of our history on account of his History of the Franks , he also wrote stories about holy men and women and about wondr
The History of the Franks contains Christian tales of miracles, descriptions of omens and natural events, stories of Christian martyrs, dialogues of church debates , discussions of the lives of holy men, nobility, and eccentric peasants, frequent Bible ve