CYCLOPS
"S. Martin of Todi and S. Martin of Tours" (U12.1694)
[*Ed. S. Martin de Tours (ca. 316-397) was born in Hungary to pagan parents, and raised in Pavia, Italy. His father was a Roman military officer. Martin discovered Christianity in his early teens. He joined the Roman imperial army at 15, serving in a ceremonial unit that acted as the emperor's bodyguard. Cavalry officer, and assigned to garrison duty in Gaul, he met a beggar while on horseback in Amiens (Gaul). Having nothing to give, he cut his heavy officer's cloak in two, and gave half to the beggar. Later he had a vision of Christ wearing the cloak. Representated usually as a Roman soldier with a cloak. Feast November 11. Trivia: he shares the birthplace, later Szombathely, of Bloom's father Rudolph Virag.]
