MARTIN, St, was born at Sabaria, in Pannonia (Stain, in Lower Hungary), in the beginning of the fourth century. He was elected Bishop of Tours in the year 374. To the zeal and charity of a bishop he joined the humility and poverty of an anchorite. That he might detach himself the more from the world, he built the celebrated monastery of Marmoutier, situated near the city of Tours, between the Loire and a steep rock. In this situation St Martin, together with eighty monks, displayed the most exemplary sanctity and the greatest mortification; nor were there any monks better disciplined than those of Marmoutier. Martin died at Candes, on the 8th of November 397, but, according to others, on the 11th of November 400. His name is attached to a particular opinion concerning the mystery of the Holy Trinity. St Martin is the first of the saints confessors to whom the Latin church offered up public prayers. His life is written in elegant Latin by Fortunatus, and also by Sulpicius Severus, who was one of his disciples.