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we find the courage to be faithful to Christ and to have a compassionate heart. heart. compassionate a have to and Christ to faithful be to courage the find we

Gospel and the Christian values of mercy, justice and peace. We know him as St. Martin the Merciful. By his prayers may may prayers his By Merciful. the Martin St. as him know We peace. and justice mercy, of values Christian the and Gospel

Lord Jesus Christ and showed himself to be a brave defender of the Orthodox faith, and especially of the moral vision of the the of vision moral the of especially and faith, Orthodox the of defender brave a be to himself showed and Christ Jesus Lord

St. Martin was a courageous and faithful soldier in the service of an earthly sovereign. He enlisted in the service of Our Our of service the in enlisted He sovereign. earthly an of service the in soldier faithful and courageous a was Martin St.

On The Life of St. Martin Martin St. of Life The On in Severus Sulpicius, www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf211.toc.html at online read be can (this ). ).

mous sanctuary for those seeking justice. The biography of this remarkable saint was written by his contemporary, contemporary, his by written was saint remarkable this of biography The justice. seeking those for sanctuary mous

opposed to the wide-spread practice of torture and capital punishment. After his death, his shrine at Tours became a fa- a became Tours at shrine his death, his After punishment. capital and torture of practice wide-spread the to opposed

conflict with many church authorities who were eager to use the power of the state to enforce religious orthodoxy. He was was He orthodoxy. religious enforce to state the of power the use to eager were who authorities church many with conflict

his position to intercede for prisoners. He adamantly opposed using secular power to punish heretics and this led him into into him led this and heretics punish to power secular using opposed adamantly He prisoners. for intercede to position his

founded a monastery in Gaul. He was elected Bishop of Tours in 371. His merciful character became famous and he used used he and famous became character merciful His 371. in Tours of Bishop elected was He Gaul. in monastery a founded

thodoxy against the Arian heresy, St. Hilary of Poitiers. He suffered for his faith in a number of places and eventually eventually and places of number a in faith his for suffered He Poitiers. of Hilary St. heresy, Arian the against thodoxy

served Caesar. Let me now serve Christ." He became a disciple of the great defender of Or- of defender great the of disciple a became He Christ." serve now me Let Caesar. served

tized. At the end of his tour of duty, he asked to be released, saying: "Until now I have faithfully faithfully have I now "Until saying: released, be to asked he duty, of tour his of end the At tized.

he had been thinking about becoming a Christian. His dream convinced him and he was bap- was he and him convinced dream His Christian. a becoming about thinking been had he

had a dream in which he saw Christ Himself wearing the half-cloak. Up to this point in his life life his in point this to Up half-cloak. the wearing Himself Christ saw he which in dream a had

was moved to cut his cloak in half and he gave one part to the needy man. That night Martin Martin night That man. needy the to part one gave he and half in cloak his cut to moved was

beggar at the gate of the city of Amiens in Gaul. He had no money to give the beggar, but he he but beggar, the give to money no had He Gaul. in Amiens of city the of gate the at beggar

soldier and Martin joined the army at the age of fifteen. On a cold winter day he encountered a a encountered he day winter cold a On fifteen. of age the at army the joined Martin and soldier

St. Martin was born into a pagan family in Illyricum (Albania) about AD 330. His father was a a was father His 330. AD about (Albania) Illyricum in family pagan a into born was Martin St.

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