Saint Martin of Tours (316-397) was a Roman soldier who, as a catechumen, famously cut his cloak in two to clothe a freezing beggar and that night saw Christ wearing the half he had given. He became a monk and then Bishop of Tours, a tireless evangelist of the Gaulish countryside and one of the first non-martyrs venerated as a saint.

November 11

• soldiers
• beggars
• the poor
• France

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