Martin of Leon (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint Martin of Leon (c. 1130 - January 12, 1203) was a priest and canon regular of the Augustinian Order. Born at Leon, Martin, along with his father Juan, withdrew from the world to the canonry of St. Marcellinus in Leon after the death of his mother. Martin was educated at this canonry, and after the death of his father, Martin decided to undertake a major pilgrimage, visiting the cities of Rome and Constantinople. Returning to Spain he took the religious habit at St. Marcellinus, but after seeing this monastery had been secularized by the bishops he entered the collegiate church of St. Isidore in the same city. This is a church he went on to endow and is where Saint Isidore was buried, hence its name