“On the day the Church celebrates the liturgical memory of Saint Martin, which this year marks the closure of the celebratory year for the 17th centenary of his birth, we would like to unite ourselves with the Bishops and all the faithful of Hungary, the native land of this great Saint, in giving thanks to God for the human and spiritual contribution which Saint Martin has given to the continent”. The CCEE Presidency has sent this letter to the “episcopate and the people of Hungary”, addressed to the president of the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference, the Bishop of Györ, Msgr. András Veres, and the Primate of Hungary, Cardinal Péter Erdő, former president of CCEE. “A few days away from the end of the Jubilee of Mercy, we cannot but note the happy coincidence with the memory of one of the saints who knew best how to incarnate in his time the merciful face of Christ. The life of Saint Martin tells us that in the encounter with the cold beggar, the saint discovered Jesus Christ, was converted and changed his life, putting it no longer at the service of a worldly power but of God. Through this encounter, Christ made Saint Martin capable of living and loving”. “Obeying the divine call, Saint Martin undertook a path of Christian life which brought him to take care of the poor and the oppressed, to spread the Gospel with courage, to combat the errors of his time, to build church communities with the spirit of a pastor, with the sentiments of Christ and the ability to see the world through God’s eyes”.