522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3)

3029.084 - 3054.779 Tom Holland

Martin is the great patron of Frankish royalty, but by the 8th century, it's become much more than that. So St. Martin, he's the first, he's the most celebrated of all Gaul's monks, of all Gaul's holy men. And he has become the emblem of a kind of common identity that has joined Franks and Romans. They all share a kind of common devotion to this saint. And so you could say that the sack of St.