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St. Martin (other)
Saint Martin may refer to: People * Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316–397), Bishop of Tours, France * Saint Martin of Braga (c. 520–580), archbishop of Bracara Augusta in Gallaecia (now Braga in Portugal) * Pope Martin I (598–655) * Saint Martin of Arades (died 726), canonized monk from Corbie Abbey whose feast day is November 26 * Saint Martin of Soure (died 1146), Portuguese cleric canonized after martyrdom to the Moors of Cordoba * Saint Martin de Porres (1579–1639), Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order * Saints Martin Tho and Martin Tinh Duc Ta, two Vietnamese Martyrs who died between 1745 and 1862 Places * Saint Martin (island), an island in the northeast Caribbean, divided between France and the Netherlands ** Collectivity of Saint Martin, French portion of the island ** Sint Maarten, Dutch portion of the island Angola * Saint Martin of the Tigers, ghost town in southern Angola Austria * Saint Martin, a village in Freudenburg, Magdalensberg, Austria Banglades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Of Tours
Martin of Tours ( la, Sanctus Martinus Turonensis; 316/336 – 8 November 397), also known as Martin the Merciful, was the third bishop of Tours. He has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints in France, heralded as the patron saint of the Third French Republic, Third Republic, and is patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe. A native of Pannonia (in central Europe), he converted to Christianity at a young age. He served in the Roman cavalry in Roman Gaul, Gaul, but left military service at some point prior to 361, when he became a disciple of Hilary of Poitiers, establishing the Ligugé Abbey, monastery at Ligugé. He was consecrated as Bishop of Caesarodunum (Tours) in 371. As bishop, he was active in the suppression of the remnants of Gallo-Roman religion, but he opposed the violent persecution of the Priscillianist sect of ascetics. His life was recorded by a contemporary hagiographer, Sulpicius Severus. Some of the accounts o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Martin, Meurthe-et-Moselle
Saint-Martin () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. See also *Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department The following is a list of the 591 communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):Saintmartin {{MeurtheMoselle-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Martin De Porres, Adelaide
St Martin de Porres is a Catholic School parish school in Sheidow Park, Adelaide, South Australia catering for children from Reception to Year 6. It is a feeder school to Sacred Heart College School, and Cabra Dominican College Cabra Dominican College is a private, independent Catholic high school located at Cumberland Park, an inner-southern suburb in Adelaide, South Australia. It was established by an order of Dominican sisters from Cabra, Dublin in February 188 .... Primary schools in Adelaide Catholic schools in Adelaide {{SouthAustralia-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Martin, Jersey
St Martin (Jèrriais: ) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is north-east of St Helier. It has a population of 3,948.''Portrait of the Channel Islands'', Raoul Lemprière, 1970 The parish covers . The parish is a mixed rural-urban community and forms the north-east corner of the Jersey rectangle. It has he easternmost point of the Bailiwick. Most of the population is concentrated in the villages of the parish and along La Grande Route de Faldouet and the coast towards St Catherine's. The village of Gorey is partly located in the parish, with the remainder of the village in Grouville. In Gorey, the parish hosts one of the three principal English military fortifications located in Jersey: Mont Orgeuil (Gorey) Castle. The village of Maufant is also partly located in St Martin, along the boundary with St Saviour. History Historically it was called (Saint Martin the Old) to distinguish it from (known today as Grouille). This explains why the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Martin, Guernsey
Saint Martin ( Guernésiais and French Saint Martin; historically Saint-Martin-de-la-Bellouse) is a parish in Guernsey, The Channel Islands. The islands lie in the English Channel between Great Britain and France. The postal code for street addresses in this parish begins with GY4. The old Guernésiais nickname for people from Saint Martin is ''dravans''. In 1883, Pierre-Auguste Renoir spent the summer in Guernsey, with a varied landscape of beaches, cliffs and bays, where he created fifteen paintings in little over a month. Most of these feature ''Moulin Huet'', a bay in Saint Martin. These paintings were the subject of a set of commemorative postage stamps issued by the Bailiwick of Guernsey in 1983. The parish church of Saint Martin was consecrated on 4 February 1199. At the gate to the churchyard is La Gran'mère du Chimquière, a statue menhir. St. Martin Parish has entered Britain in Bloom for a number of years, winning the small town category twice, in 2006 and 2011. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Martin’s Church, St Martin-by-Looe
St Martin's Church is a parish church in the hamlet of St Martin, Looe, Cornwall, in the Church of England Diocese of Truro. History and description The church dates from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. It was restored in 1882 and also in 1907 at a cost of £400 () when the eastern portion of the church floor was lowered, the walls underpinned and the pillars were straightened. A heating system was installed and the lancet window was opened up. It was re-opened for worship by the Venerable Archdeacon Henry Du Boulay. Until 1845 it was the parish church of East Looe; an early vicar was Sir William de Bodrygan (1280), one of the family of lords who granted that town its early privileges. The south aisle was once reserved to the townspeople, close to the pews where sat the mayor and corporation. the parclose screen (1612) was due to the Langdons of Keverell whose squire used the squint to watch the preacher. There is a Norman doorway and a Norman font and wagon roofs of the 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Martin-in-Meneage
St Martin-in-Meneage ( kw, Dydemin) is a civil parish and village in the Meneage district of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is five miles (8 km) south-southeast of Helston. The population at the 2011 census was 377 The church is dedicated to St Martin of Tours and is a chapelry of Mawgan in Meneage (right of sepulture was granted in 1385). The ancient estates of Barry Mylor and Mathiana adjoin the church and the two names indicate that in early times there were chapels of two Breton saints here, of St Melor at Merther Mylor (Barry Mylor) and St Anou at Merther Anou (the modern forms having been variously corrupted).Henderson, Charles (1925) "Parochial history of Cornwall", in: ''Cornish Church Guide''. Truro: Blackford; p. 155 St Martin-in-Meneage lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty The Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers in Cornwall, England, UK; that is, about 27% of the total area of the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Martin-by-Looe
St Martin-by-Looe ( kw, Penndrumm) is a coastal civil parish in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is immediately east of the town and parish of Looe, seven miles (11 km) south of Liskeard. The parish is in the Liskeard Registration District and the population in the 2001 census was 321, which had increased to 429 at the 2011 census. To the north, the parish is bordered by Morval parish, to the east by Deviock parish, to the west by Looe parish and to the south by the English Channel. Until 1845 the parish also included East Looe. The parish church of St Martin stands outside the civil parish in the hamlet of St Martin at about a mile north of Looe town centre. Its Norman doorway is built of Tartan Down stone and probably dates from about 1140. The interior of the church is of typically 15th-century appearance, but parts of the building are considerably older. Thomas Bond, the topographer is buried in the churchyard. Jonathan Toup, classical scholar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Martin, Valais
Saint-Martin is a municipality in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. History Saint-Martin is first mentioned in 1224 as ''Sanctum Martinum''. Geography Saint-Martin has an area, , of . Of this area, 33.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and 21.8% is unproductive land. The municipality is located in the Hérens district. It consists of the villages of Saint-Martin, Suen, Trogne, Eison, Liez, Praz-Jean and La Luette as well as a pair of hamlets including Ossona. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is ''Azure on a Mount Vert St. Martin robed Or on a Horse Argent cutting his Coat Gules to share with a Beggar Proper.'' Demographics Saint-Martin has a population () of . , 3.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Martin, Fribourg
Saint-Martin ( frp, Sent-Martin) is a municipality in the district of Veveyse in canton of Fribourg, in Switzerland. History Saint-Martin is first mentioned in 1228 as ''Sanctus Martinus''. Geography Saint-Martin has an area of . Of this area, or 77.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes, and or 0.7% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.6%, and transportation infrastructure made up 1.9%. Out of the forested land, 13.7% of the total land area is heavily forested, and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Martin-sur-Oust
Saint-Martin-sur-Oust (, literally ''Saint-Martin on Oust''; br, Sant-Varzhin-an-Oud) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. Until 6 October 2008 it was known as Saint-Martin. Inhabitants of Saint-Martin-sur-Oust are called in French ''Martinais''. See also *Communes of the Morbihan department The following is a list of the 249 communes of the Morbihan department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):Mayors of Morbihan Association Saintmartinsuroust {{Morbihan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Martin-de-Ré
Saint-Martin-de-Ré (, literally ''Saint-Martin of Ré''; Saintongeais: ''Sént-Martin-de-Ré'') is a commune in the western French department of Charente-Maritime.Commune de Saint-Martin-de-Ré (17369) INSEE It is one of the ten communes located on the Île de Ré. The fortifications in Saint-Martin-de-Ré, drawn up by Vauban between 1681 and 1685, were inscribed on the |
