ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 11th of November WELCOME! SAINT MARTIN OF TOURS, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR Saint Martin was born at Sabaria, in Pannonia. When he was ten years old, against his parents’ wishes, he fled to a church and enrolled among the catechumens. As a young man of fifteen, he enrolled as a soldier, first in the army of Constantinus, then in that of Julian. HE BECAME A CHRISTIAN AGAINST HIS PARENTS' WISHES At Amiens, when he was eighteen years old, he gave part of his cloak to a certain poor man and was later refreshed by a wonderful apparition of Jesus Christ. He received Baptism with great interior joy. Afterwards, abandoning the military life, he was received by Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, among the number of acolytes. Then he was made Bishop of Tours and built a monastery, where, with eighty monks he lived, for some time, a very holy life. "I DO NOT REFUSE TO LABOUR" When he was stricken with a grave fever at Candes, a village o...