who was st martin of tours
St. Martin of Tours, (born 316, Sabaria, Pannonia [now Szombathely, Hungary]âdied November 8, 397, Candes, Gaul [France]; Western feast day, November 11; Eastern feast day November 12), patron saint of France, father of monasticism in Gaul, and the first great leader of Western monasticism. 1  Of pagan parentage, Martin chose Christianity at age 10.