Via Sancti Martin

Often threatened by the Danube's flooding, the people of Lipót also trusted in the protection of Saint Clement, whose life and martyrdom were both connected with water. According to tradition, Pope Clement was exiled by Emperor Trajan to the Crimea, where he was enslaved in a marble quarry. He and his fellow slave labourers suffered much from thirst. In answer to their common prayer, Clement, at the place shown to him by Jesus in his vision, drew a spring of water, and the distraught inhabitants of the area were baptised. When this came to the attention of the emperor, he ordered a stone to be tied around Clement's neck and drowned in the sea. The body of the saint did not remain in the sea tomb: the sea receded so that the faithful could take his body out on dry land.