Marmoutier

Marmoutier, which is the other indispensable excursion in the near neighbourhood of Tours.

A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

He visited every church in his diocese once a year and founded several more religious communities, including the monastery of Marmoutier near Tours, where he lived with 80 monks.

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He visited every church in his diocese once a year and founded several more religious communities, including the monastery of Marmoutier near Tours, where he lived with 80 monks.

November 11: Martin, Bishop of Tours (397) bls 2008

IN the XIVth section of the "Vita Quinta" Probus narrates St. Patrick's arrival in Brotgalum, then his journey to Trajectus, from whence he hastened to Marmoutier to join St. Martin, Bishop of Tours, with whom he remained for four years.

Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming

Father Bullen Morris, "ancient records and immemorial traditions complete our story, and set St. Patrick on the high road to St. Martin at Marmoutier" ( "Ireland and St. Patrick," pp. 35 -- 40).

Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming

After having rendered important services to his Order, and contributed to the reformation of several abbeys, Dom Claude Martin died in the odour of sanctity at Marmoutier, on the 9th of August, 1696, aged seventy-seven.

The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community

Gemblours, who died in 1208, in his Apology for Sulpicius Severus, [18] testifies that his festival was kept at Marmoutier with great solemnity on the 29th of January.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Christian traveller who visits the spot on the banks of the Loire, where immemorial tradition and an ancient monument mark the place at which the Saint crossed the river on his way to Marmoutier.

Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming

St. Patrick's natural desire was first to visit his relatives in Armorican Britain, and next to renew his friendship with the followers of St. Martin at Marmoutier, but God had decreed that he should spend all the rest of his days in the land of his adoption.

Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming

St. Patrick's relatives resided in the Gaulish province of Britain, and the disciples of St. Martin -- "the Lord's Saints" -- lived at Marmoutier in the province of Gaul.

Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming