after obtaining the cure in 550, he founded a church in dume and sent emissaries to gaul in search of relics of the saint. by providential provision, the emissaries of the king met with martin of pannonia (later to be canonized and known as martin of dume), who was heading from jerusalem to gaul, to the tomb of his namesake and compatriot. that meeting showed him the place where it should go to exercise his apostolate, because until then the suebi had professed arianism. he landed possibly in portus cale, where he went to braga, to the court of theodemar, completing the king's conversion, with the help of the bishop eleutério and the bishop of coimbra, lucêncio. from theodemar he obtained the newly founded church of dume, next to whom he built the monastery of dumio.