Martin of Tours«Martinus Turonensis / Martin the Merciful»

(316/336–397)

Bishop (of Tours^†)

Place of birth:Province of Pannonia Prima (Diocese of Pannonia/Diocese of Illyricum) (Roman Empire)^††

Place of death:Province of Lugdunensis III (Diocese of Gaul) (Roman Empire)^†††

Feastday

11 November

Patronage

Patron of:Archdiocese of Bratislava^††††; Baħrija^{†††††}; Beli Manastir^{††††††}; Bocaue, Bulacan^{†††††††}; Buenos Aires; Burgenland^{††††††††}; Dieburg; Diocese of Mainz^{†††††††††}; Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart^{††††††††††}; Enghien^{†††††††††††}; Erfurt; Foiano della Chiana; France; Kortrijk^{††††††††††††}; Montemagno (Piemonte)^{†††††††††††††}; Olpe; Ourense^{††††††††††††††}; Pietrasanta; Taal, Batangas^{†††††††††††††††}; Torre di Mosto^{††††††††††††††††}; Touraine; Tours; Utrecht^{†††††††††††††††††}; Villadoz; Virje; Wißmannsdorf

Patron of:beggars, cavalry, Church Lads’ and Church Girls’ Brigade, drunkards, equestrians, geese, harvests, horses, hotel-keepers, innkeepers, new wine, Pontifical Swiss Guard / Pontificia Cohors Helvetica / Guardia Svizzera Pontificia / Päpstliche Schweizergarde / Garde suisse pontificale / Guardia svizra papala, quartermasters, reformed alcoholics, soldiers, tailors, vintners, wine growers, winemakers

Invoked against:alcoholism, poverty

^†Caesarodunum / Turones / Civitas Turonum

^††Provincia Pannonia Prima (Dioecēsis Pannoniarum/Dioecēsis Illyricorum) (Imperium Romanum) / επαρχία της Παννονίας Α' (Διοίκηση Παννονίας/Διοίκηση Ιλλυρικού) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [296–395 / 395–440s]

^†††Provincia Lugdunensis III (Dioecēsis Gallliarum) (Roman Empire) / επαρχία Λουγδουνικής Τέρτια (ΙΙΙ) (Διοίκηση Γαλατίας) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [314–486]

^††††Bratislavská arcidiecéza / Archidioecesis Bratislaviensis

^{†††††}Il-Baħrija

^{††††††}Бели Манастир / Pélmonostor

^{†††††††}Bayan ng Bocaue

^{††††††††}Őrvidék / Gradišće / Burgnland / Gradiščanska / Hradsko

^{†††††††††}Diœcesis Moguntinus / Bistum Mainz

^{††††††††††}Dioecesis Rottenburgensis-Stutgardiensis / Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart

^{†††††††††††}Edingen / Inguî / Enge

^{††††††††††††}Kortryk / Kortrik / Courtrai / Cortoriacum

^{†††††††††††††}Montmagn (Piemont)

^{††††††††††††††}Orense

^{†††††††††††††††}Bayan ng Taal

^{††††††††††††††††}Torre di Mosto

^{†††††††††††††††††}Utreg / Traiectum

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:

D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.

Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.

Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.

Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990

and the following websites:

Saints.SQPN.com

Santi, beati e testimoni - Enciclopedia dei Santi

Santi e beati della Toscana

eCatholicHub Catholic Saints Database

The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee

Martyrologium Romanum - Index Generalis

www.synaxaristis - ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ

Onomasticon Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae (An index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes)

Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England: Database Home

focal.ie - Dictionary of Irish Terms - Foclóir Téarmaíochta

logainm.ie - Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann - Placenames Database of Ireland

Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia