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St Martin of Tours (Comper)
St. Martin's feast (11 November), also known as "Martinmas" in Europe arrives in autumn, the beginning of the wine harvest. This was also the time of slaughter of the stock for winter meat. His images are usually depicted with a goose, symbolizing that Martinmas was the last festive meal before Advent, because in France in the Middle Ages, the strict 40 day Advent fast (called Quadragesima Sancti Martini or Forty Days' Fast of Saint Martin's) began the next day. So in past centuries November 11 was celebrated as a thanksgiving day. Thus it was the custom to have "St. Martin's goose" and taste the new wine ("Saint Martin's Wine") on his feast day. A quick spell of warm weather around his feast day (usually termed "Indian Summer" in the US) is known as "St. Martin's Little Summer" in Europe.
Uploaded on Nov 10, 2009
St Martin of Tours
Today (11 November) is the feast of St Martin who was born in the Roman province of Pannonia (approximating to the western half of modern Hungary) in about 316 and was educated at Pavia in Italy. He was baptized, left the army and after spending some time as a hermit on an island off the Ligurian coast, founded a monastery at Ligugé in western France, where he lived a monastic life guided by St Hilary. Later he was ordained priest and became bishop of Tours. In his actions he gave an example of what a good shepherd should be. He founded other monasteries, educated the clergy, and preached the Gospel to the poor. He died in 397.
Uploaded on Nov 10, 2009
St Martin's act of charity
"While Martin was still a soldier at Amiens he experienced the vision that became the most-repeated story about his life. He was at the gates of the city of Amiens with his soldiers when he met a scantily dressed beggar. He impulsively cut his own military cloak in half and shared it with the beggar. That night he dreamed of Jesus wearing the half-cloak Martin had given away. He heard Jesus say to the angels: "Here is Martin, the Roman soldier who is not baptised; he has clad me."
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Light through stained glassThe bright morning sun which was coming through a stained glass rose window in the west cast this beautiful reflection on the walls of a church in Lourdes...
Uploaded on Nov 10, 2009
St Peter in LourdesLovely 19th-century depiction of St Peter holding the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and a preaching Cross. This window is in the crypt of chapel of the Upper Basilica in Lourdes, and today is the feast of St Leo the Great, who was a 5th-century successor of St Peter as Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Christ.
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