Saint Martin
Speech parts
1. Saint Martin - Noun
2. Saint Martin - Proper noun
Meaning
an island in the western Leeward Islands; administered jointly by France and the Netherlands
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Saint-Martin
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According to the most widespread variation of the cloak story, Saint Martin cut off half of his cloak in order to offer it to a beggar and along the way, he gave the remaining part to a second beggar.
A mercenary in Renaissance Italy, named Martin, finds a statue of Saint Martin cutting his cloak and takes it as a sign to desert and rogue around under the saint's protection.
Cardinal Bertrand de Saint Martin, Bishop of Sabina, the only surviving Cardinal Bishop, held a middle course, or perhaps one should say he saw too clearly to be willing to commit to either party.
Examples of such people are Saint Hilarion and Saint Ephrem the Syrian in the East, and Saint Martin of Tours and Saint Hilary of Poitiers in the West.
Peter Stuyvesant's arrival in New Amsterdam Peter Stuyvesant's house In April 1644, he attacked the Spanish-held island of Saint Martin and lost the lower part of his right leg to a cannonball.
Its only land boundary was with France on the island of Saint Martin, which was 10.2 kilometers in length.