St. Martin of Tours, Bishop, Confessor

M for SAINT MARTIN, in Mitre and Cope
(The bishop of Tours, not Saint MARTIN the Pope);
His father, a soldier, disliked and despised
The True Faith, and prevented his being baptized
By making him serve in the army of Gaul,
Though he wasn't that sort of a soldier at all.
At Amiens one day, in the wind and the sleet,
He was stopped by a beggar who begged in the street;
He'd no money to give, so he made a great tear
In his cloak and gave part to the beggar to wear.
That night in a vision Saint MARTIN was shown

Our LORD as He reigns on His heavenly throne;

He was wearing the piece that the beggar had worn!
For CHRIST takes what we give to the poor and forlorn.
(Alphabet of Saints by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson).

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