Miracula Martialis  The Miracula Martialis is the earliest collection of reports of miracles worked through the intervention of Saint Martial (fl. 3rd century) and thus a key piece of his then still growing hagiography. Written in Latin, it was first compiled in the late 7th or early 8th century and added to until shortly after 854. Its oldest recorded miracles took place in the 7th century. The "Miracula" is a potentially useful historical source for a very obscure period in Aquitanian history. The earliest section of the "Miracula", possibly from the late 7th century, gives a positive portrayal of Ebroin (died 680), the count of the palace, in contradistinction to that of the contemporary "Passio Leudegarii", in which he is a most evil man. It also recounts that in 675 the Aquitanian official Lupus attempted to make himself the king of an independent Aquitaine: "ad sedem regam se adstare" ("to stand himself on a royal seat").