Martin IV, Pope
Born at the castle of Montpensier in the old French province of Touraine at an unknown date; d. at Perugia 28 March, 1285. As priest he held a benefice at Rouen for a short time, w…
Martin of Braga, Saint
Missionary, monastic founder, archbishop, ecclesiastical writer, d. 580.
Martin of Tours, Saint
Fairly lengthy biographical article on this bishop, who died in around 397.
Martin of Valencia, O.F.M.
Born at Villa de Valencia, Spain, about the middle of the fifteenth century; died in the odour of sanctity at Tlalmanalco, Mexico, 31 August, 1534. He entered the Franciscan Order …
Martin V, Pope
Born at Genazzano in the Campagna di Roma, 1368; died at Rome, 20 Feb., 1431.
Martin, Felix
Antiquary, historiographer, architect, educationist, b. 4 October, 1804, at Auray, seat of the famous shrine of St. Ann in Brittany, France; d. at Vaugirard, Paris, 25 November, 18…
Martin, Gregory
Translator of the Douai Version of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate; b. in Maxfield, parish of Guestling, near Winchelsea, in Sussex; d. at Reims, 28 October, 1582.
Martin, Konrad
Bishop of Paderborn; b. 18 May, 1812, at Geismar, Province of Saxony; d. 16 July, 1879, at Mont St Guibert, near Brussels, Belgium.
Martini, Antonio
Archbishop of Florence, Biblical scholar; b. at Prato in Tuscany, 20 April, 1720; d. at Florence, 31 December 1809.
Martini, Martino
Austrian Jesuit missionary to the Chinese, in the seventeenth century.
Martini, Simone
Sienese painter, born in Siena, 1283; died either in the same place or at Avignon in 1344 or 1349.
Martinique
Diocese; Martinique is one of the French Lesser Antilles, 380 sq. miles in area; It was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, and colonized by the French about 1625; it was i…
Martinsberg
A Benedictine abbey in Hungary about fourteen English miles south of Raab, and sixty west of Buda-Pesth.
Martinuzzi, George
Monk, bishop, cardinal, b. at Kamicac, Dalmatia, 1482; d. 16 December, 1551. His real name was George Utjesenovic.
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