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In 371, Martin was acclaimed bishop of Tours. As bishop of Tours he greatly impressed the city's inhabitants with his demeanor and zeal in destroying the pagan temples. Sulpicius Severus recorded in the ''Vita'' of St. Martin many of the events of this period. Sulpicius further recorded Martin's withdrawal from the tensions of the city to the monastery, Marmoutier, that he founded across the Loire river from Tours. Here Martin led a austere life among the cave-dwelling cenobites who had gathered around him.
St. Martin of Tours died on [[November 118]], 397, at Candes.
==His Memory==
The basilica built over his grave as a shrine to St. Martin of Tours was a major stopping point on pilgrimages during the middle ages. During the Wars of Religion in 1562, the Huguenots sacked the shrine and, it was completely destroyed during the French Revolution. Two streets were built over the site to ensure it could not be re-built.
St. Martin of Tours continues to be remembered in many parts of western Europe through annual processions and the giving of presents to children on his feast dayin the Western churches, [[November 11]], instead of [[December 6]] (St. [[Nicholas of Myra|Nicholas]]) or [[December 25]] ([[Christmas]]). His day also was traditionally the final day before the [[Nativity Fast]] began in the West. In the East, his [[feast day]] is sometimes celebrated on [[November 12]].
==Hymns==
==See also==
*[[Philanthropy]]
*[[Almsgiving]]
==External links==
*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=103285 St. Martin the Merciful the Bishop of Tours] ([[OCA]])
*[httphttps://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints/?contentid=2369 Saint Martin, Bishop of Tours] ([[GOARCH]])
*[http://www.roca.org/OA/33/33h.htm St. Martin of Tours] ([[ROCA]]) from ''Orthodox America'', issue 33, v. IV, no. 3, September, 1983
*[[w:Martin of Tours|''Martin of Tours'' at Wikipedia]]