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Martin of Tours, Saint
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Martin of Tours, Saint

(born c. 316, Sabaria, Pannonia—died Nov. 8, 397, Candes, Gaul; Western feast day, November 11; Eastern feast day November 12) Patron saint of France. Born a pagan, he converted to Christianity at age 10. He was forced to join the Roman army but asked to be released because service was incompatible with his Christianity. After imprisonment he settled in Poitiers and then became a missionary on the Balkan Peninsula. He returned to Poitiers in 360 and founded the first monastery in Gaul. In 371 he was made bishop of Tours. A second monastery he founded, at Mormoutier, became a great monastic complex. St. Martin was known as a miracle worker in his own lifetime and was one of the first venerated saints who was not a martyr.
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It is also the feast day of St Martin of Tours, a 4th Century Hungarian soldier who became a Patron Saint of France.
FRANXIS WOOD by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
The family fun day was held as part of St Martin of Tours Church's month of anniversary celebrations.
Fun for all at 70th birthday bash by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
After a disastrous fire that virtually destroyed the Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh, a new copper was installed in December 1999 and blessed by Bill Brockie, the brewery's official chaplain and canon of St Martin of Tours Church in the city.
BEER AND RELIGION - A STOUT RELATIONSHIP by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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