In 371, Martin succeeded Litorius, the second bishop of Tours. He impressed the city with his demeanour. He was enticed to Tours from Ligugé by a ruse — he was urged to come to minister to someone sick — and was brought to the church, where he reluctantly allowed himself to be consecrated bishop. According to one version, he was so unwilling to be made bishop that he hid in a barn full of geese, but their cackling at his intrusion gave him away to the crowd; that may account for complaints by a few that his appearance was too disheveled to be commensurate with a bishopric, but the critics were hugely outnumbered.
In 371 Martin succeeded Litorius the second bishop of Tours He impressed the city with his demeanour He was enticed to Tours from Ligugé by a ruse — he was urged to come to minister to someone sick — and was brought to the church where he reluctantly allowed himself to be consecrated bishop According to one version he was so unwilling to be made bishop that he hid in a barn full of geese but their cackling at his intrusion gave him away to the crowd; that may account for complaints by a few that his appearance was too disheveled to be commensurate with a bishopric but the critics were hugely outnumbered