Martino wa Tours

Martino wa Tours (Savaria, Panonia, leo Hungaria
316 - Candes-Saint-Martin, Gaul, leo Ufaransa 397) alikuwa mmonaki, halafu askofu (kuanzia 371 hadi kifo chake).

Kisha kuzaliwa na Wapagani, aliitwa jeshini sehemu za Ufaransa. Huko, akiwa bado mkatekumeni, alimfunika kwa joho lake Kristo aliyetwaa sura ya fukara. 

Baada ya kubatizwa, aliacha jeshi na kuishi kitawa huko Ligugé katika monasteri aliyoianzisha mwenyewe, akiwa chini ya uongozi wa Hilari wa Poitiers. 

Hatimaye alipewa daraja takatifu ya upadri akachaguliwa kuwa askofu wa Tours, akawa mfano wa Mchungaji mwema, akianzisha monasteri nyingine na parokia vijijini, akifundisha na kupatanisha waklero na kuinjilisha wakulima hadi mwisho kabisa wa maisha yake https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/25050. 

Alipokaribia kifo, walimuomba asiondoke, naye akasali hivi: "Ee Bwana, nikihitajiwa bado na watu wako, sikatai uchovu wa kazi: utakalo lifanyike!"

Maisha yake yaliandikwa na Sulpicius Severus yakawa kielelezo cha vitabu juu ya watakatifu. 

Sifa yake ilienea haraka hivi kwamba aliheshimiwa kama mtakatifu ingawa hakuwa mfiadini kama kawaida ya wakati ule. Hadi leo anaheshimiwa hivyo na Kanisa Katoliki, Waorthodoksi, Waanglikana, Walutheri n.k. 

Sikukuu yake inaadhimishwa tarehe 11 NovembaMartyrologium Romanum, ila kwa Waorthodoksi tarehe 11 Oktoba.

Tazama pia
Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko
Mababu wa Kanisa

Tanbihi

Marejeo ya Kiswahili
 Masomo ya Breviari - Sikukuu za Bwana, za Bikira Maria na za Watakatifu - Ndanda Mission Press 1978, uk 415-418
 John Kabeya na wengine - Maisha ya Watakatifu – ed. T.M.P. Book Department – Tabora 1965, 1989, uk. 398-399
 Pd. Leandry Kimario, O.F.M.Cap. - Mfahamu Mtakatifu Somo Wako - Maisha ya Watakatifu wa Kila Siku pamoja na Watakatifu Wafransisko - Toleo la pili - Dar es Salaam 2021, uk. 352-353
 Maurice Soseleje, Kalendari yetu – Maisha ya Watakatifu – Toleo la pili – ed. Benedictine Publications Ndanda Peramiho – Peramiho 1986 – ISBN 9976-63-112-X, uk. 84-85

 Marejeo ya lugha nyingine
 Sulpicius Severus On the Life of St. Martin. Translation and Notes by Alexander Roberts. In A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, New York, 1894, available online 
 Clare Stancliffe, St Martin and his hagiographer: History and miracle in Sulpicius Severus (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. xvi+400 (Oxford Historical Monographs).
 Mark Kurlansky (2006). Nonviolence: twenty-five lessons from the history of a dangerous idea. Modern Library chronicles book, Random House, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-679-64335-4.

 Viungo vya nje 

 "St. Martin, Bishop of Tours, Confessor", Butler's Lives of the Saints
 The Life and Miracles of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop and Confessor of the Catholic Church 
 Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint Martin of Tours
 The Community of St Martin 
 St Martin's churches in the world 

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