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ST See also: bishop of See also: Tours, was See also: born of See also: heathen parents at Sabaria (Stein am Agger) in See also: Pannonia, about the See also: year 316
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When ten years old he became a See also: catechumen, and at fifteen he reluctantly entered the army
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While stationed at See also: Amiens he divided his cloak with a See also: beggar, and on the following See also: night had the vision of Christ making known to his angels this See also: act of charity to Himself on the See also: part of "Martinus, still a catechumen." Soon afterwards he received See also: baptism, and two years later, having See also: left the army, he joined Hilary of See also: Poitiers, who wished to make him a deacon, but at his own See also: request ordained him to the humbler office of an exorcist
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On a visit home he converted his See also: mother, but his zeal against the Arians roused persecution against him and for some See also: time he lived an ascetic See also: life on the See also: desert See also: island of Gallinaria near Genoa
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Between 36o and 370 he was again with Hilary at Poitiers, and founded in the neighbourhood the monasterium locociagense (Licuge)
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In 371-372 the See also: people of Tours See also: chose him for their bishop
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He did much to extirpate See also: idolatry from his diocese and from See also: France, and to extend the monastic See also: system
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To obtain privacy for the maintenance of his See also: personal See also: religion, he established the monastery of Marmoutier-See also: les-Tours (Martini monasterium) on the See also: banks of the See also: Loire
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At Treves, in 385, he entreated that the lives of the Priscillianist heretics should be spared, and he ever afterwards refused to hold ecclesiastical fellowship with those bishops who had sanctioned their execution
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He died at Candes in the year 400, and is commemorated by the See also: Roman See also: Church on the 11th of
See also: November (duplex)
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He left no writings, the so-called Confessio being See also: spurious
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He is the See also: patron See also: saint of France and of the cities of See also: Mainz and Wiirzburg
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The Life by his See also: disciple Sulpicius Severus is practically the only source for his biography, but it is full of legendary See also: matter and See also: chronological errors
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See also: Gregory of Tours gives a See also: list of 206 miracles wrought by him after his See also: death; Sidonius See also: Apollinaris composed a metrical biography of him
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The Feast of St See also: Martin (Martinmas) took the place of an old
See also: pagan festival, and inherited some of its usages (such as the Martinsmdnnchen, Martinsfeuer, Marlinshorn and the like, in various parts of See also: Germany); by this circumstance is probably to be explained the fact that Martin is regarded as the patron of drinking and jovial meetings, as well as of reformed drunkards
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See A
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Dupuy, Geschichte See also: des heiligen Martins (Schaffhausen, 1855) ; J
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Cazenove in See also: Diet. chr. biog. iii
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838
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