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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 .
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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