Martin of Tours, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Martin of Tours

Christian saint

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0316

Place of Birth: Szombathely, Vas County, Hungary

Date of Death: 08-Nov-0397

Profession: Catholic priest, cleric

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Martin of Tours

  • Saint Martin of Tours (Latin: Sanctus Martinus Turonensis; 316 or 336 – 8 November 397) was the third bishop of Tours.
  • He has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints in Western tradition. A native of Pannonia, he converted to Christianity at a young age.
  • He served in the Roman cavalry in Gaul, but left military service at some point prior to 361, when he became a disciple of Hilary of Poitiers, establishing the monastery at Ligugé.
  • He was consecrated as Bishop of Caesarodunum (Tours) in 371.
  • As bishop, he was active in the suppression of the remnants of Gallo-Roman religion, but he opposed the violent persecution of the Priscillianist sect of ascetics. His life was recorded by a contemporary hagiographer, Sulpicius Severus.
  • Some of the accounts of his travels may have been interpolated into his vita to validate early sites of his cult.
  • He is best known for the account of his using his military sword to cut his cloak in two, to give half to a beggar clad only in rags in the depth of winter.
  • His shrine in Tours became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
  • His cult was revived in French nationalism during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1, and as a consequence he was seen as a patron saint of France during the French Third Republic.

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