St. Martin refused to dine with Maximus saying boldly that he could not eat at the same table with the man
who deprived one emporer of his dominions and another of his life. St. Martin at length was prevailed upon to
accept the invitation. Maximus gave a great feast. Martin was accompanied by a priest who was also seated
at a place of honor. An officer presented the cup to Maximus who ordered it to be given to St. Martin
giving him the honor of the first drink. Voraigne records that "St. Martin was of such great humilty" that he
passed the cup first to his priest instead of to the emporer, "for he knew well that there was none
worthy to drink before the priest, as the most worthy person in the company."
His action was applauded by the emporer and the whole court.
The artist who created this artwork for St. Martin's signed it BAMorano.
Click on the image at right for an image of greater detail. Note that the image with greater detail
was scanned at 300 dots per inch of resolution which is much greater than the 75 dots per inch resolution
of the pictured image.
The pictured image is approximately 85-100KB in size, whereas the image with greater detail is approximately 2-3MB
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