42 COEKlSfi t)Et)ICATIONS. 



Great confusion has sprung up between Martin, the Patrician 

 Missionary and Martin of Tours, that was furthered by the fact 

 of the former being of Torinis and the latter of the "Turones." 

 For instance, in the life of S. Senan, we are told that he visited 

 Tours to converse with Martin, and he found the latter incessantly 

 engaged upon a Gospel he was transcribing. Then said Senan, 

 *' I would that these diligent hands of yours should minister the 

 Eucharist to me on the day of my decease." " They shall indeed 

 do it," replied Martin. 



Then the two men swore brotherhood, and in token of 

 affection Martin presented Senan with the book of the Gospels he 

 had been copying. 



Some years later, when Senan lay adying :-^" The angels of 

 God uplifted Martin from Tours, in a heavenly cloud, and set him 

 down in the place where Senan was biding, and he gave him 

 communion and sacrifice." After which Martin was carried back 

 to Tours in the same way. Now as Martin, of Tours, died in 

 401, and Senan was born about 480, this is clearly impossible. 

 The late redactor of the "Life" found in his original text that 

 Senan had made friends with Martin, of Torinis, who gave him 

 a Gospel and ministered the communion to him, and he jumped 

 to the conclusion that this must have been Martin of Tours, and 

 then he put in the above miraculous touches. That Martin, of 

 Torinis, should have ministered to Senan on his death-bed is 

 chronologically impossible. 



That Martin, who was a Briton, may have accompanied S. 

 Kieran to Cornwall is not improbable, and it is possible that the 

 church of 8. Martin in Meneage may be a foundation of this 

 Martin. The Feast there is on Nov. 14, six days after the day 

 on which Martin, the Patrician Missionary, is commemorated at 

 Temple-Marten in Ireland, but also three days after the Feast of 

 Martin, of Tours. 



At Temple-Marten, near Kilkenny, is a holy well of the 

 saint. 



S. Martjan, Abbot, Confessor. 



Maruau is said by Leland to have been one of the company 

 that arrived in Cornwall from Ireland with SS. Senan, Breaca, 



