Directory of Saint Martin of Tours Resources

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Information on St. Martin of Tours, the first person to be called a saint who was not also a martyr. Martin was by turns a soldier, monk, and bishop. Along with St. Anthony (of Egypt), Martin was one of the most popular saints in the early Church.

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• Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Martin of Tours

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09732b.htm
  Fairly lengthy biographical article on this bishop, who died in around 397.

• CatholicSaints.Info: Martin of Tours

  http://catholicsaints.info/saint-martin-of-tours/
  Illustrated profile. With part of the reading appointed for his feast in the Liturgy of the Hours.

• Martin of Tours, Bishop and Theologian

  http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/11/11.html
  Biographical essay. With prayers in traditional and contemporary language.

• Martin of Tours, c. 315-397

  http://www.cin.org/martours.html
  Biography, by an unknown hand, of the first non-martyr to be acclaimed a saint.

• Saint Martin of Tours

  http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=81
  Rather long hagiography, by Terry Matz.

• Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop, Confessor

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/MARTIN.htm
  From the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.

• St Martin, Confessor, Bishop of Tours

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STMARTIN.htm
  From Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.

• Sulpitius Severus: On the Life of St. Martin

  http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/npnf2-11/sulpitiu/lifemart.html
  Biography of St. Martin of Tours, by a contemporary.

 

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