[1] The Latin manuscript was found in the seminary of Nîmes by the Bollandists François Arbellot and Charles De Smedt, who edited and published it.
[2] The Miracula was written at the height of the Hundred Years' War and amidst a major revival of Saint Martial's cult.
Popes Clement VI (1343) and Gregory IX (1376) granted indulgences to pilgrims to Martial's shrine at his abbey in Limoges.
They would not have met the standards of the Papal curia for verifying miracles, although they show some awareness of the need to prove that events had not followed a merely natural course.
[1] A later editor added a comment to the Miracula noting that the peace was attributed to the saint and there was a general hope that the Great Schism in the western Church would soon be healed.