Our father among the saints '''Martin the [[Confessor]]''', [[Pope]] of Rome, was a valiant defender of the [[Church of Rome|Roman Church]] who suffered greatly in order to preserve the divinity of [[Christ]] against the [[Monothelitism|Monothelite]] [[heresy]] during the 7th century. He was the last Pope of Rome to be [[martyr]]ed. He is widely [[veneration|venerated]] in the East on [[April 13]] ([[GOARCH]]) or [[April 14]] ([[OCA]]) (November 12 in the West).

*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.aspsaints_view?contentid=17 Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome] ([[GOARCH]])