18 December Saints, Beati and Feasts Celebrated Today
http://saints.sqpn.com/18-december/

Adjutor
Auxentius of Mopsuetia
Basilian of Laodicea
Bodagisil of Aquitaine
Desiderius of Fontenelle
Flannan of Killaloe
Gatianus of Tours
Mawnan of Cornwall

Moses of Africa
Nemesia Valle
Our Lady of the Expectation
Paul My
Peter Truat
Philip of Ratzeburg
Quartus
Quintus

Samthann of Clonbroney
Simplicius
Theotimus of Laodicea
Victor
Victorinus
Victurus
Winebald of Heidenheim

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Photo of St. Gatian's Cathedral in Tours, France: http://en.gloria.tv/?media=229350

Saint Gatian 12-18
Gatianus (Catianus, Gatianus, Gratianus; French: Cassien, Gatien, Gratien)[1] (3rd century CE) was the founding bishop of the see of Tours.

According to Christian historians,[2] during the consulship of the Emperor Decius and Vettus Gratus (250 CE), Pope Fabian sent out seven bishops from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel: Gatianus to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturnin to Toulouse, Denis to Paris, Austromoine to Clermont, and Martial to Limoges. A … [More]