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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 8148391, member: 89314&quot;]St. Martin, Bishop of Tours (316 or 336 – 397) was born in Szombathely, Hungary but spent much of his childhood in Pavia in Italy.&nbsp; While serving as a soldier in the Roman army, he had a vision.&nbsp; According to his hagiographer Sulpicius Severus, at the gates of Amiens, he met a beggar clad only in rags in the depth of winter..&nbsp; He impulsively cut his military cloak in half to share with the man. That night, Martin dreamed of Jesus wearing the half-cloak he had given away.&nbsp; In another version, when Martin woke, he found his cloak restored to wholeness. He was baptised and in due course became a hermit. In 371 he was acclaimed bishop of Tours. The part of the cloak kept by Martin became the famous relic kept in the oratory of the Merovingian kings of the Franks at the Marmoutier Abbey near Tours, founded by Martin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Germany&nbsp; Archbishopric of MAINZ&nbsp;&nbsp; Johann Adam von Bicken&nbsp; Reichstaler 1602</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1421265[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1421266[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>St. Martin was/is a popular saint. Apart from Mainz, he appears on coins of Colmar and Erfurt in Germany, Horn in the Netherlands, Schwytz and Uri in Switzerland, Lucca in Italy and surely more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your St. Martin coins ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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