 Returning from Illyria, he was confronted by the Arian archbishop of Milan Auxentius, who expelled him from the city.According to the early sources, Martin decided to seek shelter on the island then called Gallinaria, now Isola d'Albenga, in the Ligurian Sea, where he lived the solitary life of a hermit.Not entirely alone, since the chronicles indicate that he would have been in the company of a "priest, a man of great virtues", and for a period with Hilary of Poitiers; on this island, where the wild hens lived.