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MARTIN OF TOURS, BISHOP

Martin of Tours (316 Sabaria, about â "Candes-Saint-Martin, 8 November 397), it was a Christian Bishop of the fourth century.
One of the founders of monasticism in the West.
In Italy there are over 900 churches dedicated to him.
Originally from Pannonia, in what is now Hungary, esercitò his Ministry in Gaul in the late Roman Empire. The first non-martyred Saints proclaimed by the Catholic Church, is also venerated by the Orthodox and Coptic. November 11, is celebrated the day of her funeral that took place in modern-day Tours in severe winter of 335 Martino incontro a naked beggar.

Seeing him in pain, taglio his military cloak (Chlamys bianca of the Imperial Guard) and shared it with the beggar.