See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN See also:BOOS (1762–1825)
, See also:German See also:Roman See also:Catholic theologian, was See also:born at Huttenried in See also:Bavaria on the 25th of See also:December 1762
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Orphaned at the See also:age of four, he was reared by an See also:uncle at See also:Augsburg, who finally sent him to the university of See also:Dillingen
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There he laid the See also:foundation of the modest piety by which his whole See also:life was distinguished
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After serving as See also:priest in several Bavarian towns, he made his way in 1799 to See also:Linz in See also:Austria, where he was welcomed by See also:Bishop See also:Gall, and set to See also:work first at Leonding and then at Waldneukirchen, becoming in ,8o6 pastor at Gallneukirchen
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His pietistic See also:movement won considerable way among the Catholic laity, and even attracted some fifty or sixty priests
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The See also:death of Gall and other powerful See also:friends, however, exposed him to See also:bitter enmity and persecution from about 1812, and he had to See also:answer endless accusations in the consistorial courts
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His enemies followed him when he returned to Bavaria, but in 1817 the Prussian See also:government appointed him to a professorship at See also:Dusseldorf, and in 1819 gave him the pastorate at Sayn near Neuwied
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He died on the 29th of See also:August 1825
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See Life by J
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See also:Gossner (1831)
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