His life - His charisma -
His legacy - The
tradition
St. Martin’s Fair in
Alzano - Iconography
His charisma
Martin began a missionary life, prominent for the spreading of the
Gospel and for the defense of the weakest against all injustice. He
faced harsh opposition from the Arian hierarchy, from paganism and even
from the secularized clergy itself, but his charisma was never
tarnished. He welcomed the appointment to Bishop of Tours, in
France, like a divine mission: to
“evangelize”, without ever evading the task that God had assigned to
him.
He died in Candes, south of
Tours, on November 8th, 397 A.D.; but
his funerals were celebrated on the day of November 11th, at
the presence of a huge crowd, among which stood two thousand monks.
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