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event the people of Galloway would wish a church specially 

 sacred to the memory of St. Martin. Apart from the personal 

 relationship between these two, the Galilean Church had then and 

 for long- afterwards supreme influence in this country. There was 

 a church erected to his memory at Canterbury so early as the 5th 

 century, and out of 160 churches subsequently built, those at 

 Hexham, Ripon, Jarrow, and Moukswearmouth were erected by 

 masons and glaziers from Tours in the 7th century. The ancient 

 liturgy of the British Church was derived from the Gallican Church, 

 and the name of St. Martin of Tours occurs not only in pre- 

 Keformation kalendars but in one of A.D. 1587 affixed to " The 

 cl. Psalmes of David in Meter, for the use of the Kirk of Scotland." 

 (Bp. Forbes's Kal., p. xlii). 



There was no one whom the Church more delig-hted to honour ; 

 and in answer to the question, What mean these stones ? I tliink 

 I may with reason say that they commemorate Komano-Gallican 

 priests who in the 7th century ministered in Kirkmadrine Church, 

 then erected to the memory of Sanctus Martinus. 



J. G. H. Stakke. 



