Christian saint

Saint Martin of Tours

Explore sacred places with reviewed veneration relationships to Saint Martin of Tours.

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Abbaye Saint-Martin de Ligugé (Ligugé Abbey)

Ligugé, Vienne, France

South of Poitiers, a community of Benedictine monks lives today on the ground where Martin of Tours laid down his soldier's life around 361 CE to found what is widely...

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Christianity

Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours

Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

A Neo-Byzantine basilica raised over the crypt of Saint Martin of Tours, whose act of cutting his cloak in half for a freezing beggar became the founding image of Western...

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Christianity

Church of Saint Martin

Tarn-et-Garonne, France

The Church of Saint-Martin is reputedly among the oldest church sites in France, a Christian sanctuary built directly over the heated floors of a Gallo-Roman bathhouse....

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Christianity

Collégiale Saint-Martin de Candes

Candes-Saint-Martin, Indre-et-Loire, France

A Gothic collegiate church in a Loire Valley village marks the exact spot where Martin of Tours, one of Western Christianity's most venerated saints, died in 397....

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Roman Catholic Christianity

Lucca Cathedral (Duomo di San Martino)

Lucca, Lucca, Italy

Lucca Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Lucca and a major stop within the Italian Via Francigena landscape....

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Roman Catholic Christianity

Church of San Martín de Tours

Frómista, Palencia, Spain

The Church of Saint Martin of Tours in Fromista is an eleventh-century Romanesque church standing directly on the Camino Frances....

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Christianity

St Martin's Church, Canterbury

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

St Martin's Church in Canterbury is widely regarded as the oldest Christian site in continuous use in the English-speaking world, its walls woven from Roman brick laid...

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Christianity

St Martin's Church, Detling

Detling, England, United Kingdom

St Martin's Church stands at the heart of Detling village on the North Downs of Kent, directly on the ancient trackway that medieval pilgrims walked toward Canterbury....