Prêtre Martin
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Prêtre Martin is a character who serves the Mass
alone to himself, and appears in the old French proverbs:
Osip Mandelstam
likens poets to Prêtre Martin in his essay 'On the interlocutor'.
Mass (liturgy)
"Mass" is one of the names by which the sacrament of the Eucharist is called in the Roman Catholic Church: others are "Eucharist", the "Lord's Supper", the "Breaking of Bread", the "Eucharistic assembly ", the "memorial of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection", the "Holy Sacrifice", the "Holy and...
alone to himself, and appears in the old French proverbs:
- Faire le Prêtre Martin (15th century) - 'To do a Father Martin' meaning to answer oneself.
- Prêtre Martin qui chante et qui répond (19th century) - 'Father Martin who chants and who responds'
Osip Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets...
likens poets to Prêtre Martin in his essay 'On the interlocutor'.
External links
- List of Patron Saints including Martin and the proverbs (French).