ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 13th of April WELCOME! SAINT MARTIN I., POPE AND MARTYR ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Saint Martin was a native of Todi in Tuscany, and became renowned in the clergy of Rome for his learning and sanctity. Whilst he was deacon of that church he was sent by Pope Theodorus in quality of apocrisiarius or nuncio to Constantinople, where he showed his zeal against the reigning heresy of the Monothelites. THE MONOTHELITE HERESY Upon the death of Theodorus, after a vacancy of near three weeks, Martin was elected pope in July, 649, and, in the October following, held in the Lateran church a council of one hundred and five bishops, against the Monothelites, in which he condemned the ringleaders of that sect, particularly Sergius and Pyrrhus, who had been formerly bishops of Constantinople, and Paul, who was then in possession of that see. "WE ARE NOT TO DENY AT THE SAME TIME BOTH TRUTH AND ERROR" The Ecthesis of Heraclius and t...