[1] In 1691 he became Professor of Divinity at Mechelen, where he published two theses which led to his dismissal.
Subsequently, he was appointed Vice-President of the college, and in the same year he was made a Canon of St.
[1] In 1714, Martin wrote a letter to Edward Synge, the Protestant Archbishop of Tuam, in an effort to convert him to Catholicism.
Archbishop Synge refused, but said of Francis Martin that he was a man who preserved something of freedom in his judgement [and] meant well at bottom.
[1] Francis Martin died at Bruges on 4 October 1722, where he is buried in the grounds of St. John's Hospital.