Icons of St. Martin of Tours, bishop

Icons of St. Martin of Tours, Wonder-Working Hierarch

Feast: Nov 11 (also, his ordination day and translation on July 4 )

In olden days in England, St. Martin was an extremely popular Saint, and his feast ushered in the great fast before Nativity. When St. Augustine of Canterbury arrived in Kent, he found in Canterbury a Christian church, ancient even then, dedicated to St. Martin. The location can still be seen in modern-day Canterbury. St. Martin reposed Nov. 11 and July 4 is kept as the feast of his ordination, consecration, and translation (the transferral of his holy Relics).

Top Icon: by the hand of Br. Leon Liddament, St. Seraphim's Studio, Walsingham, England.

Next Icon: Monastery of the Theotokos and St. Martin, Cantauque, Provence.

Next Icon: from Huesstege Icons in Germany. 

Next Icon: of unknown provenance, with English inscriptions & scenes of the Life.

Next Icon: by the hand of Aidan Hart, EP, UK.

Next Icon: carving by the hand of Aidan Hart, Oecum. Patriarchate, UK.

Next Icon: of unknown provenance.

Next Icon: also of unknown provenance.

Next: Icon from the Atelier (workshop) of St. John Damascene, in France.

Next: Icon also from the Atelier of St. John Damascene.

Next: Icon by the hand of Michael Garrett of holy-icons.com

Next: Icon produced by the Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity. 

Next: Icon (on left) by the hand of iconographer Elizabeth Hudgins, Virginia. 

Last Icon above (on right): of unknown provenance. 

Icon of St. Martin of Tours, Wonder-Working Hierarch, 12th c., from Mount Sinai

Here the Wonder-Worker, who raised three dead men to life within his days, is shown not as a Greek Bishop, but in old Western Rite episcopal vestments: the form of mitre is noteworthy, as well as the form taken by the pallium (omophor), the staff, and the cuffs (Latin: maniculae). The disposition of the fingers for the blessing in old Western Rites is shown as well, rather than the Byzantine manner. Click here to see the entire icon.  

Icon of St. Martin of Tours, Wonder-Working Hierarch

This icon shows the famous event outside the gates of the city of Amiens: St. Martin, still a catechumen, cut his army-issue cloak in half to clothe a beggar freezing in the bitter cold. After enduring scorn from the other soldiers for his ridiculous appearance in the half-cloak, Martin saw Christ that evening, wearing the beggar's half of the cloak, and telling the saints who surrounded Him: "Behold, Martin, yet a catechumen, hath clothed Me with this."  He hasted himself to the saving waters of Holy Baptism, left the army, and entered the Lord's service.

The upper icon of the above 2 is taken from a web page of the ECOF.

Next Icon (left, of pair): by the hand of French iconographer Agnes Glitchitch.

Next Icon (right, of pari) of unknown provenance.

Next Icon: a mosaic from the Church of St. Apollinaris the New in Ravenna, 5th-6th c.  St. Martin leads a retinue of prelate-Saints.

Final Icon: of unknown provenance.

Following the final icon is a picture of the remaining relics of St. Martin shown at Tours (most of his relics were burned and scattered by Protestants).  

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