Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

St John in his first epistle says that one who does not love his neighbor whom he can see cannot in truth say that he loves God whom he has not seen. St Martin was a soldier in his youth and drawn to Christ in the Gospel. One winter, as he prepared for his baptism at the Easter Vigil, he was approached by a beggar outside the city of Amiens. St Martin, moved with compassion over the near naked man, cut his large Roman sagum in half and gave to the man to keep warm.

That night, St Martin had a dream wherein Jesus Christ in heaven clothed with that part that he had given to the poor man, and said to the angels that were about him: Martin, yet new in the faith, hath covered me with this vesture. Of which thing this holy man was not enhanced in vain glory, but he knew thereby the bounty of God. Golden Legend

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