Help!! Please!!!

vrunca · Dec 7, 2006

Hi Everyone!!

Our Catechism program is making blankets for some families in need...you know the warm fleece blankets that are tied together instead of sewn. Well anyway, I am putting together a short lesson about how we should help each other out and take care of those in need... Anyway, there is a bible story about a man who had a coat and it was cold and he came across a man who didn't have one at all, so he tore the coat in half and gave him half. Does anyone know where this is? I would really apreciate your help!! Thanks so much :hug:

Da_Funkey_Gibbon · Dec 7, 2006

I seem to recall that one being from the lives of the saints. I remember because it was a Roman centurion who cut his cloak in half to give half to a beggar. St. Martin of Tours, it was.

However there could be a similar story in the bible, I'm not sure.

Da_Funkey_Gibbon · Dec 7, 2006

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09732b.htm

[Martin's] regiment was soon sent to Amiens in Gaul, and this town became the scene of the celebrated legend of the cloak. At the gates of the city, one very cold day, Martin met a shivering and half-naked beggar. Moved with compassion, he divided his coat into two parts and gave one to the poor man. The part kept by himself became the famous relic preserved in the oratory of the Frankish kings under the name of "St. Martin's cloak". Martin, who was still only a catechumen, soon received baptism, and was a little later finally freed from military service at Worms on the Rhine.

vrunca · Dec 7, 2006

Yeah!! That's got to be it! That's why I was having such a hard time finding it in the bible!! :doh:

Thank you so much for your help!!!

midnightbirdgirl · Dec 7, 2006

Hope this helps:
The Legend of the Cloak

The Charity of St. Martin, by Jean Fouquet

While Martin was still a soldier at Amiens he experienced the vision that became the most-repeated story about his life. He was at the gates of the city of Amiens with his soldiers when he met a scantily dressed beggar. He impulsively cut his own military cloak in half and shared it with the beggar. That night he dreamed of Jesus wearing the half-cloak Martin had given away. He heard Jesus say to the angels: "Here is Martin, the Roman soldier who is not baptised; he has clad me." (Sulpicius, ch 2). In a later embellishment, when Martin woke his cloak was restored, and the miraculous cloak was preserved among the relic collection of the Merovingian kings of the Franks.
I got the above from Wikipedia
But there is more here.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STMARTIN.htm
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vrunca · Dec 7, 2006

midnightbirdgirl said:
Hope this helps:
The Legend of the Cloak

The Charity of St. Martin, by Jean Fouquet

While Martin was still a soldier at Amiens he experienced the vision that became the most-repeated story about his life. He was at the gates of the city of Amiens with his soldiers when he met a scantily dressed beggar. He impulsively cut his own military cloak in half and shared it with the beggar. That night he dreamed of Jesus wearing the half-cloak Martin had given away. He heard Jesus say to the angels: "Here is Martin, the Roman soldier who is not baptised; he has clad me." (Sulpicius, ch 2). In a later embellishment, when Martin woke his cloak was restored, and the miraculous cloak was preserved among the relic collection of the Merovingian kings of the Franks.
I got the above from Wikipedia
But there is more here.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STMARTIN.htm
Be Blessed,
MBG
http://p105.ezboard.com/bfinalauthority48270

This is awesome!!! Thank you!!!

midnightbirdgirl · Dec 7, 2006

No prob, what your doing is awesome. The warmth these people will receive will be more than just the blankest you are making.
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