One day when St. Martin was praying in his cell, the devil came to him environed with light, clothed in royal robes,
with a crown of gold and precious stones upon his head, and with a gracious an pleasant countenance told him twice that he was Christ.
Humility is the toughstone which discovers the devils artifices.
The saint after some pause discerned the evident marks of the angel of darkness, and said to him,
"The Lord said, not that he is to come clothed in purple, and crowned and adonred with a diadem.
Nor will I ever beleive him to be Christ who shall not come in the habit and figure in which Christ suffered,
and who chall not bear the marks of the cross in his body."
At that the fiend vanished and left his cell filled with an intolerable stench.
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
in size (as a compressed file).
