Soldier-turned-bishop St. Martin of Tours celebrated Nov. 11

St. Martin of Tours sharing his cloak with a beggar by François Joseph Thomas De Backer. / Credit: François Joseph Thomas De Backer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Nov 11, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Nov. 11, the Catholic Church honors St. Martin of Tours, who left his post in the Roman army to become a “soldier of Christ.”Martin was born around the year 316 in modern-day Hungary. His family left that region for Italy when…