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At the end of his course, Martin was too young for ordination. So he went to the French Seminary, Rome, attended the lectures at the Gregorian University, and was raised to the priesthood in 1863.
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His secondary studies were made at Montfaucon, and his theology at Saint Sulpice. Here came under the influence of Le Hir. He remained in Rome until 1868, obtained a doctorate in sacred theology and licentiate in canon law and started his life study in Semitic languages.
He worked chiefly at Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, and Arabic.
lieutenant was as a Syriac scholar that he first attracted attention. Martin was in France ten years, as curate in various parishes of Paris, before his appointment to the chair of Sacred Scripture and Oriental Languages in the Institut Catholique de Paris, which he filled from 1878 to 1890.
