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Hello everyone and welcome to Catholic Saints.

My name is Taylor Kemp.

I am the vice president of content.

And with me today is Dr. Elizabeth Klein.

Dr. Klein, it's great to have you back.

Thanks for having me here.

So many of you, if you've been subscribing to our Catholic Saints podcast on whatever podcast channel you are using, I'm sure you've heard Dr. Klein. She is one of our

most frequent Catholic Sainters. Yes, I love the Saints. I know you love the Saints. We love

the Saints and we hope all of those out there that are listening are growing in an ever

deeper love of the Saints. So today, everybody, we are talking about St. Martin of Tours, whose feast day is on November 11th.

So, Dr. Klein, who is St. Martin of Tours?

So St. Martin of Tours was a monk and bishop. He lived in the fourth century.

His dates are roughly 316 to 397, although people debate about exactly when he was born.

But Martin is actually most famous for one single event in his life, which is the story of him giving half of his cloak to a beggar.

So we'll get to that story and we know kind of the details of the story and why it was so popular. But for listeners

who don't know who Martin of Tours is, this is your problem, because Martin of Tours is exceedingly

famous, or at least he has been in the history of the church, an exceedingly famous saint,

one of the most famous early Christian saints, his cult was very widespread. And I hope that

this episode will help us bring back the name Martin because, you know, kind of hard hijacked by Martin Luther.

But of course, Martin Luther was baptized on November the 11th.

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