Dec. 18 SAINT GATIAN First Bishop of Tours († First Century)

Saint Gatian, a disciple of the Apostles and the first bishop of Tours, was sent to that city at the same time as Saint Denys to Paris, Saint Trophimus to Arles, Saint Martial to Limoges, Saint Saturninus to Toulouse, Saint Sergius Paulus to Narbonne, and Saint Austremoine into Auvergne. The Gauls in that region were addicted to the worship of their ancient idols, to which they had added the divinities of Rome. He found them enslaved … [More]

18 décembre SAINT GATIEN Premier Évêque de Tours (IIIe siècle)
Saint Gatien, premier évêque de Tours, fut envoyé dans les Gaules par le pape saint Fabien, en 250, avec six autres évêques. A son arrivée, le pays de Touraine était plongé dans le paganisme et l'on ne voyait partout que les images des faux dieux. Gatien commença par montrer à ces païens l'absurdité de leur culte et l'impuissance de leurs idoles, puis il en vint à leur découvrir les mystères de la puissance et de la … [More]

Saint Gatien's Cathedral
Saint Gatien's Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral church of the Tours diocese and the metropolitan cathedral of the Tours ecclesiastic province, in Indre-et-Loire, France. Saint-Gatien's Cathedral was built between 1170 and 1547. At the time construction began, it was located at the south end of the bridge over the Loire, on the road from Paris to the south-west of France. It has been a classified Monument historique since 1862.
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