Do your best, Bill <g>.
Doug
On 2013-04-16, at 2:24 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> US rap star Fifty Cent may have had an ancestor in St Martin: Fifty Percent?
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> Fourth century Martin,
> later bishop of Tours,
> reputedly gave half of his cloak
> to a near-naked beggar at Amiens.
> Which half I wonder?
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> On awakening, he discovered
> it had been restored to wholeness.
> Beggar back to chilly I presume.
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> Martin's reconstructed cloak
> lived on as an alleged relic.
> At least one Frankish king,
> come the Middle Ages,
> carried it into battle with him;
> oaths were sworn on it.
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> By all that's cloaksome
> and wind-whipped,
> I swear ... to uphold
> the spritual thrust of
> Martin 's semi-gesture.
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Douglas Barbour
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