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    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    March 20th =E2=80=93 St. Martin, Archbishop of Braga
    d. 579

    ST. MARTIN OF BRAGA is said by St. Gregory of Tours to have surpassed
    in learning all the scholars of his age, and the Christian poet
    Fortunatus described him as having inherited the merits as well as the
    name of St. Martin of Tours. His early history is uncertain. The story
    that he was a native of Pannonia is possibly the mistake of some
    scribe who confused him with St. Martin of Tours. He is said to have
    made a pilgrimage to Palestine, and it was perhaps with returning
    pilgrims that he made his way to Galicia in Spain. There the Suevi
    held the mastery and had propagated Arian doctrines. St. Martin,
    however, by his earnest preaching brought Galicia back to the Catholic
    Church. He began by converting and instructing King Theodomir, and
    subsequently reconciled many other Arians and lapsed Catholics. He
    built several monasteries, the principal among which, Dumium, served
    him as a centre for his missionary efforts.

    The Suevian monarchs out of regard for him made Dumium the seat of a
    bishopric (now Mondo=C3=B1edo), of which he became the first occupant, and
    so closely did they attach Martin to their court that he was called =E2=80=9Cthe Bishop of the Royal Family=E2=80=9D. Nevertheless he never rel= axed his
    own severe monastic rule of life, and maintained strict discipline in
    the government of his monks. He was afterwards promoted to the see of
    Braga, which made him metropolitan of the whole of Galicia, and he
    held that dignity until his death.

    Besides his main work as a missionary, St. Martin rendered great
    service to the Church by his writings. The chief of these are a
    collection of 84 canons, a Formula vitae honestae, written as a guide
    to a good life at the request of King Miro, a description of
    superstitious peasant customs entitled De correctione rusticorum, a
    symposium of moral maxims, and a selection of the sayings of the
    Egyptian solitaries. St. Martin died in 579 at his monastery at
    Dumium, and his body was translated to Braga in 1606.

    Our principal authorities are here Gregory of Tours and Venantius
    Fortunatus. See the Acta Sanctorum, March, vol. iii; Florez, Espa=C3=B1a Sagrada, vol. iv, pp. 1511-158 Gams, Kirchengeschichte Spaniens, vol.
    ii, Pt 1, pp. 472-475. A cordial appreciation of the work and
    scholarship of St. Martin of Braga may be found in the Cambridge
    Medieval History, vol. iii, pp. 489-490. Prominence is also given to
    him in Ebert's Geschichte der Literatur des Mittelalter, vol. i, an=
    d
    ed. pp. 579-584. There is an account of his life in Martini Episcopi Bracarensis Opera Omnia (1950), ed. C. W. Barlow.


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    Anxiety proceeds from an ill-regulated desire to be delivered from the
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    iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with
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