Saints of the Week: Martin of Tours, Josaphat, Archangels, Pope Leo, John Duns Scotus, Peter Wu Guosheng, & More
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Happy Sunday! As we approach the penitential season of Advent, which leads up to Christmas, it’s a good time to reflect on what it means to sacrifice and suffer for God, as the saints we celebrated this week did. St. Martin of Tours (Nov. 11) was a Roman soldier and convert who famously cut his cloak to give half to a beggar, and then later saw a vision where Jesus revealed He had been the beggar Martin helped! Martin later decided his faith prevented him from continuing to fight, and he went to be a spiritual student of St. Hilary of Poitiers and founder of a monastery. He became the reluctant bishop of Tours, in modern France, and governed his diocese while living in a hermit’s cell. He preached against the heresy of Arianism but asked that heretics not be executed. He saw visions, and did much good for his people—once an angel woke up the emperor to tell him Martin was coming to ask for mercy for a prisoner!
Saints of the Week: Martin of Tours, Josaphat, Archangels, Pope Leo, John Duns Scotus, Peter Wu Guosheng, & More
Saints of the Week: Martin of Tours…
Saints of the Week: Martin of Tours, Josaphat, Archangels, Pope Leo, John Duns Scotus, Peter Wu Guosheng, & More
Happy Sunday! As we approach the penitential season of Advent, which leads up to Christmas, it’s a good time to reflect on what it means to sacrifice and suffer for God, as the saints we celebrated this week did. St. Martin of Tours (Nov. 11) was a Roman soldier and convert who famously cut his cloak to give half to a beggar, and then later saw a vision where Jesus revealed He had been the beggar Martin helped! Martin later decided his faith prevented him from continuing to fight, and he went to be a spiritual student of St. Hilary of Poitiers and founder of a monastery. He became the reluctant bishop of Tours, in modern France, and governed his diocese while living in a hermit’s cell. He preached against the heresy of Arianism but asked that heretics not be executed. He saw visions, and did much good for his people—once an angel woke up the emperor to tell him Martin was coming to ask for mercy for a prisoner!