Alcuin of YorkLectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908 . s, muchagainst his will. He built the monastery of Mar-moutier, Mains Monasterium, about two miles tothe north-east of the walls of Tours, where a largenumber of students received an education in suchlearning as then was known. His time was mostlyspent in conversion of the pagans in his the age of eighty, in 396, he was called toCondate to settle an ecclesiastical dispute, wasseized with fever, and died. It was just at thattime that his great admirer, Ninian, was finishinghis stone church at Whith
Alcuin of YorkLectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908 . s, muchagainst his will. He built the monastery of Mar-moutier, Mains Monasterium, about two miles tothe north-east of the walls of Tours, where a largenumber of students received an education in suchlearning as then was known. His time was mostlyspent in conversion of the pagans in his the age of eighty, in 396, he was called toCondate to settle an ecclesiastical dispute, wasseized with fever, and died. It was just at thattime that his great admirer, Ninian, was finishinghis stone church at Whithern, in Galloway, and toMartin he dedicated it. From that time, andowing to the connexion between Britain and Gaul,dedications to St. Martin were frequent, as is in-stanced by the old British church of St. Martin atCanterbury. When Martin died, the people of Poitiers flockedto Condate to claim the body of their former the people of Tours asserted their better claim,and carried him off in a ship to Tours. The body ofthe saint was landed from the ship on the south Plate III.
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