Gregory of Tours
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Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the "father of French history".
St. Gregory of Tours, 19th century statue by Jean Marcellin, in the Louvre in Paris, France
Realms of Merovingian Gaul at the death of Clovis (511 AD)
Frontispiece of Historia Francorum
St Gregory and King Chilperic I, from the Grandes Chroniques de France de Charles V, 14th-century illumination
Martin of Tours
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Martin of Tours was the third bishop of Tours. He is the patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe, including of the former French Third Republic. A native of Pannonia, he conve
Gregory of Tours
…history and chronicles the accounts of the Franks during the period. Gregory is also known for documenting accounts of religious figures, notably that of Martin of Tours. Gregory was born in Clermont, in the Auvergne region of central Gaul. He was born into the upper stratum of Gallo-Roman society as the son of Florentius…
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Saint Martin of Tours raises a man from the dead by Godfried Maes, 1687
Cretan icon of Saint Martin
Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak by Anthony van Dyck, c. 1618