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 ^[1].

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^[2], ila kwa Waorthodoksi tarehe 11 Oktoba.

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

• 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 Archived 2 Machi 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
• 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.

Wikimedia Commons ina media kuhusu:

Martino wa Tours

• "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 Archived 5 Mei 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint Martin of Tours
• The Community of St Martin Archived 23 Februari 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
• St Martin's churches in the world

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