Martino wa Tours

ya Mt. Martino akimgawia maskini nusu ya koti lake. Höchster Schloss, Höchst (Frankfurt am Main), Ujerumani.]]
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, 1597-1599 hivi (National Gallery of Art, Washington).]]
 alivyochorwa ukutani na Simone Martini.]]
 la Mt. Martino, 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 . 

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 Novemba, 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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