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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Martin of Tongeren

Bishop of Tongeren

Bishop of Tongeren in northern Gaul, reposed around 350.

Feast
June 21old style July 4
Reposed
3504th century
Place
Tongres
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Saint Martin of Tongeren (in French Tongres) is honoured as the seventh bishop of Tongeren, in northern Gaul (now in Belgium), and reposed around 350. He was the apostle of the Hesbaye district of Liège and Brabant. The sources preserve no further details of his life.

He is commemorated on 21 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day June 21