St. Martin Of Tours Demolished Altar To A False Martyr After Apparition

Rev. Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., Dissertations On The Apparitions Of Angels, Demons and Ghosts, London, 1759: “St. Martin [of Tours], having conceived a suspicion of an altar, which one of his predecessors in the bishopric of Tours had erected to a supposed martyr, prayed earnestly one day to God, that He would let him know who it was that the people honored in that place; when suddenly there appeared on his left side a hideous ghost, which having revealed his name, admitted he had been a robber and was executed for his crimes, and had not the least right to the honors due to martyrs. After this St. Martin demolished the altar, and suppressed the supposed relics. They who attended him heard plainly what was said, but saw nothing.”