Bishop and evangelist, the converter of an Arian King of the Visigoths in Spain. Born in Pannonia, along the Danube, he made a pilgrimage to Palestine and then settled in Spain. Regarded as one of the outstanding scholars of his age, he converted many Arians, built Dumium Monastery, and then became bishop of Braga and metropolitan of Galicia. Several of his treatises, including Formula Vitae Honestae and De Correctione Rusticorum, are extant. He died at Dumium.
Martin of Braga (in Latin Martinus Bracarensis, in Portuguese, known as Martinho de Dumec. 520–580 AD) was an archbishop of Bracara Augusta in Gallaecia (now Braga in Portugal), a missionary, a monastic founder, and an ecclesiastical author. According to his contemporary, the historian Gregory of Tours, Martin was plenus virtutibus (“full of virtue”) and in tantum se litteris imbuit ut nulli secundus sui temporis haberetur (“he so instructed himself in learning that he was considered second to none in his lifetime”).[1] He was later canonized in the Catholic Church as well as in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, for his work in converting the inhabitants of Gallaecia to Chalcedonian Christianity,. His feast day is 20 March.
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