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OCR: Saint artin Thirteenth -century church buil near the center f Saint-Remy-de -Provence The building com- menced under the auspices of the cathedral of Reims and the abbey of Montma jour (Arles). In the fourteenth centur the priory was endowed with valuable collection of late Roman and Carolingian reliquaries reputed to con tain sacred relics of Saint -Remy In 1817 however vaults of Saint-Martin collapsed leaving only the gothic tower intact The present form of the churh awes its ionic-columned pronaos and dome- nave ta are- constructive effort that began in 1824. While painting ir the Alpilles foothills southeast of f Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in the late summer af 1889 Van Gogh depicted the Gothic spire of Saint-Martin version af this : steeple figured ir Starry Nighe over Saint -Remay, althou ...