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12 unusual facts about Saint Martin


Doyle Monument

The Doyle Monument is located in Jerbourg Point in the southeastern point of the Bailiwick of Guernsey within St Martin Parish.

Écréhous

They form part of the Bailiwick of Jersey and are administratively part of the Parish of St. Martin.

Education in Jersey

In the 1590s, Laurens Baudains - a wealthy farmer from St. Martin, lobbied the monarch and the States of Jersey to support a scheme for the establishment of a college.

Elizee De Garis

De Garis was born at Saint Martin in Guernsey in the Channel Islands to carpenter Elisha De Garis and Mary, née Roberts.

Haut de la Garenne

The Jersey Accommodation and Activity Centre is a building in Saint Martin, Jersey, in the Channel Islands.

Le Couperon dolmen and guardhouse

The guardhouse was built in 1689 in the parish of Saint Martin, Jersey, of local stone, with brick lintels.

Meg Rosoff

After 3 years at Harvard she moved to England and studied sculpture at Saint Martin's School of Art in London.

Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society

The first animal registered in the Herd Book was a bull named 'Dandy', owned by Mr James Godfray of St. Martin, and the first cow registered was named 'Daisy', belonging to Mr. P. Paisnel of St. Clement.

Saint Martin

There is a small airport on the French side of the island at Grand Case, L'Espérance Airport for small propeller planes serving neighbouring Caribbean islands.

Saint Martin's University

Kyle Sokol '00, Bass Guitarist for Rude Squad and Trust For Liars as well as the owner of the Florida Skate Museum

Saint Martin’s also has sister universities in other Asian countries, including five in Japan (including Mukogawa Women's University and Reitaku University), three in China (including Shanghai Maritime University), and one in Taiwan (Chung Shan Medical University).

Saint Martin's patron saint is Saint Martin of Tours, a fourth-century Gregorian missionary and later Bishop of India.


Audradus Modicus

Audradus was a monk of Saint Martin's of Tours.

Museo Matris Domini

There is another series of frescoes of great emotive and narrative quality, representing Jesus among the Doctors, the Baptism, the Virgin and Child Enthroned, Saint Catherine of Alexandria upon the Wheel, Saint Martin and the Pauper, Jesus entering Jerusalem, and the Miracle of the reanimation of Napoleone Orsini by Saint Dominic, showing the young man falling from his horse.

Philip Zec

At thirteen Zec won a scholarship to the Saint Martin's School of Art and, upon graduating, initially joined Arks Publicity, an agency specialising in advertising for radio companies, before establishing his own commercial art studio working for advertising agencies including J. Walter Thompson.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Angers

The first Bishop known in history is Defensor, who, when present in 372, at the election of the Bishop of Tours, made a determined stand against the nomination of Saint Martin.

Ronald Ferns

He attended Saint Martin's School of Art, London, supporting himself by taking commissions to decorate the homes of various London celebrities including Hermione Gingold.

Shutford

The Church of England Parish Church of Saint Martin dates from the 12th century, when it was built in the transitional style between Norman and Early English Gothic.

The Letter of Marque

These, together with his success in the cutting-out of the frigate Diane from the French port of Saint Martin-de-Rey despite serious wounds, make Aubrey both wealthy again and a popular hero.

Vassal

According to Eginhard's brief description, the commendatio made to Pippin the Younger in 757 by Tassillo, Duke of Bavaria, involved the relics of Saints Denis, Rusticus, and Éleuthère, Saint Martin, and Saint Germain, which had apparently been assembled at Compiègne for the event.