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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.
Many churches are named after Saint Martin of Tours. St Martin-in-the-Fields, at Trafalgar Square in the centre of London, has a history appropriately associated with Martin's renunciation of war; Dick Sheppard, founder of the Peace Pledge Union, was Vicar 1914–26, and there is a memorial chapel for him, with a plaque for Vera Brittain, also ...
The tomb of Saint Martin was rediscovered on 14 December 1860, which aided in the 19th-century revival of the popular devotion to St. Martin. After the radical Paris Commune of 1871, there was a resurgence of conservative Catholic piety, and the church decided to build a basilica to Saint Martin.
Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours, a Roman Catholic basilica in Tours, France; Basilica of Saint-Martin d'Ainay, a Romanesque church in Lyon, France; Taal Basilica, the Minor Basilica of Saint Martin of Tours, in Batangas, Philippines; Basilica of St. Martin, Bingen am Rhein, a Catholic church in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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.
St. Martin of Tours' Church (Bronx, New York) St. Martin's Catholic Church, Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Martin's Catholic Church, Valley City, Ohio; St. Martin of Tours Episcopal Church, Omaha, Nebraska; St. Martin's Church (Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania) Saint Martin of Tours Parish Roman Catholic Church, Oxford Circle, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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