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- Martin is not in the Bible. It comes from the Latin Martinus, “of Mars” — a war name — and its first great bearer was a soldier who refused to fight.
- Martin of Tours, conscripted as a boy, met a beggar at Amiens in winter and cut his cloak in half. He could give only half because the other half belonged to the army.
- That night, by the account of his biographer Sulpicius Severus who knew him, he dreamt of Christ wearing the piece he had given away. The verse behind it is Matthew 25:40.
- Later he told the emperor he would serve no longer and offered to stand unarmed between the armies. The refusal is early in the record; the goose shed is late and probably a story.
- Martin Luther was named for him, baptised on his feast day; Martin Luther King Jr was named for Luther after his father travelled to Germany in 1934.
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Sources: Behind the Name entry for Martin (Latin Martinus, from Mars); Sulpicius Severus, Life of Martin, for the cloak at Amiens, the dream and the refusal to fight, written by someone who knew him. Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Matthew 5:9; 25:40; Luke 3:14; Acts 10:1-2; Ephesians 6:13-18). Luther’s baptism on 11 November 1483 and the 1934 renaming of Martin Luther King Sr and Jr are matters of record; the goose-shed detail is late tradition and is identified as such.
