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  2. Martin of Tours - Wikipedia

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    Martin of Tours (Latin: Martinus Turonensis; 316/336 – 8 November 397) was the third bishop of Tours. He is the patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe, including France's Third Republic .

  3. St. Martin's Day - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak (van Dyck) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Church of St. Martin in the Wall - Wikipedia

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    The Church of St. Martin in the Wall (Czech: Kostel svatého Martina ve zdi) is a Gothic church with Romanesque grounds, situated in the Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic. It was built between 1178 and 1187 in the village of Újezd, thereafter known as Újezd u svatého Martina. [ 1 ]

  6. Patron saints of places - Wikipedia

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    Martin of Tours Armenia: Gregory the Illuminator [12] Bartholomew the Apostle Jude the Apostle Mesrop Mashtots Australia: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady Help of Christians) [26] Saint Paisios of Mount Athos [27] Mary of the Cross MacKillop [28] Austria: Joseph [25] Colman of Stockerau [29] Florian [25] Leopold the Good Maurice [25] Severinus of ...

  7. Marmoutier Abbey, Tours - Wikipedia

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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.

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