Editing Martin of Tours (section)

==Patronage==
[[File:Szombathely Szt Márton kút, Látogatói központ.JPG|thumb|Martin of Tours' Fountain, behind the Visitors' Centre in [[Szombathely]] in [[Hungary]], the birthplace of St Martin of Tours]]
He is the [[patron saint]] of beggars (because of his sharing his cloak), wool-weavers and tailors (also because of his cloak), he is also the patron saint of the US Army Quartermaster Corps (also because of sharing his cloak), geese (some say because they gave his hiding place away when he tried to avoid being chosen as bishop, others because their migration coincides with his feast), vintners and innkeepers (because his feast falls just after the late grape harvest), and France. He was proclaimed patron of Italian volunteering by the Italian bishops in the spring of 2021.

Beyond his patronage of the [[French Third Republic]], Saint Martin more recently has also been  described in terms of "a spiritual bridge across Europe"  due to his "international" background, being a native of [[Pannonia]] who spent his adult life in [[Roman Gaul|Gaul]].{{sfn|Lanzi|2004|p=104}}