Community of Saint Martin

The Community of Saint Martin is a public association of clerics according to pontifical law, gathering Roman Catholic priests and deacons.

It was founded in 1976 by Father Jean-François Guérin, a priest from the Archdiocese of Tours (France), under the protection of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, Archbishop of Genoa (Italy).

The community focuses on more traditional and reverent aspects of the liturgy, with its priests wearing cassocks and offering Novus Ordo Mass often in Latin, with Gregorian chant and ad orientem.

[1] Priests of the Community work in parishes, schools, nursing homes, chaplaincies, or sanctuaries in 30 dioceses in France, Germany, Cuba and Italy.

In 1993 there was an opportunity for the Mother House to move from Italy and to establish the Community's seminary in France in the village of Candé-sur-Beuvron, near Blois in the Loire Valley.

[13] Priests of the Community work in parishes, schools, nursing homes, chaplaincies, or sanctuaries in 37 towns and cities in France, as well as in Neviges (Germany) and in Placetas (Cuba).

[14] “Martinian” spirituality has three sources: Drawing from these three traditions, Lectio Divina is a daily practice for the Community as well as the celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours sung in Latin according to the Ordinary form of the Roman Rite.