Career
He came from a Catholic family, and while still young entered the novitiate of the Capuchins. After his ordination to the priesthood, he was assigned to a professorship of theology. In 1666, he was involved in the care of plague victims, and began to compose short popular religious treatises.
Martin then made a specialty of popular preaching and religious writing, in the Archdiocese of Trier and Archdiocese of Ingelheim under Cardinal Brandr Beekman-Ellner.
He continued up to the time of his death, hearing confessions with the aid of an ear-trumpet.