Sulpicius Severus` hagiographical corpus concerning Martin of Tours consists of the Life , three letters, and three Dialogues. The Dialogues were composed between AD 400 (the year of Origenist controversy, to which Sulpicius makes a reference), and the years 410-412 when Jerome published his Commentary on Ezekiel, in which he mentions the Dialogues. Stancliffe (Stancliffe 1983: 81) suggests that the Dialogues were composed between 404 and 406, judging by the comment of one of the interlocutors that eight years have passed since Martin`s death (in 397) and no allusion to the barbarian invasions of Gaul in AD 406-407. The work was likely published in two separate volumes, with volume 1 containing the first and second Dialogue and volume 2 the third. It can be proven both on the basis of the early mansuscript tradition and the account of Gennadius (see [670]).