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Martin Luther was named after St. Martin, as he was baptised on 11 November 1483 (St. Martin's Day), and many older Lutheran congregations are named after St. Martin. Martin of Tours is the patron saint of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps , which has a medal in his name.
The new Basilica Tomb of Saint Martin. The Basilica of Saint Martin is a Catholic basilica dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, over whose tomb it was built. It is located in Tours, France. [1] The first basilica was established here in the 5th century (consecrated in 471) on the site of an earlier chapel. [2]
St Martin's Day Kermis by Peeter Baltens (16th century), shows peasants celebrating by drinking the first wine of the season, and a horseman representing the saint. Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas (obsolete: Martlemas), [1] [2] and historically called Old Halloween [A] or All Hallows Eve, [B] [3] [4] is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and is celebrated in the liturgical year on 11 November.
The abbey was founded by Saint Martin of Tours (316-397), in 372, after he had been made Bishop of Tours in 371. [1] Martin's biographer, Sulpicius Severus (c. 363–c. 425), affirms that Martin withdrew from the press of attention in the city to live in Marmoutier (Majus Monasterium), the monastery he founded several miles from Tours on the opposite shore of the river Loire.
Saint Martin and the Beggar is a painting by the Greek mannerist painter El Greco, painted c. 1597–1599, that currently is in the collection of The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. [1] It depicts a legend in the life of Christian saint Martin of Tours: the saint cut off half his cloak and gave it to a beggar. [2]
St. Martin of Tours Catholic School in Cheviot will close at the end of this school year, a decision church officials blamed on falling enrollment and growing budget deficits.
The painting depicts a story about the fourth-century Christian Saint Martin of Tours. The young Martin was according to legend a soldier serving in the army of Constantine the Great stationed in the French city of Amiens. On a winter's day while riding out of the city gates he saw a poor man shivering from the cold.
At this time Severus came under the powerful influence of Saint Martin, bishop of Tours, by whom he was led to devote his wealth to the Christian poor, and his own powers to a life of good works and the contemplative vision of God. [1] This choice incurred his father's displeasure, but he was encouraged in his determination by his mother-in-law ...