ABSTRACT
Martin of Tours (316-83) was, it seems, the last Western saint to enter the Byzantine liturgical calendar. Ambrose preceded him, but Augustine of Hippo, his contemporary, did not follow him. The interest manifested by his later successor at Tours, Gregory, in the cult of Eastern saints had no equivalent for the cult of Western saints at Constantinople. He marks a dividing point, for, while in his time the cult of saints in the East and West had many common features, its connotations were beginning to diverge significantly. Since our theme is the military characteristics of Byzantine warrior saints, we shall begin by examining how Martin was presented in Eastern sources.
