#Saint Gatian
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SAINT OF THE DAY (December 18)
Not much is known about the life of Saint Gatian, but we do know that he was the first bishop of Tours in France
He was said to be a disciple of Saint Denis of Paris. Arriving in Gaul, a pagan land, completely untouched by the Good News, Gatian scattered the first seeds of the faith in the region of Tours, laying the foundations of the Church in the city of the great Saint Martin.
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 to their various superstitions. He began to teach them the vanity of idols and the impossibility of a plurality of gods.
After dispersing the false ideas and fears they had conceived concerning the gods of the empire, he presented to them the faith of the Gospel and the true God.
He showed them the necessity of the Redemption and spoke of the Second Coming of the Saviour as Judge, when He will reward the virtue of those who have done good and exile evildoers to a lamentable eternity.
The Saint was often interrupted in his instructions by harassers, and when denounced to the magistrates, was mistreated and threatened with death.
However, no contradictions or sufferings were able to discourage or daunt this apostle. By his perseverance, he gained several to Christ.
He left the city afterwards then established a sort of headquarters in a rude grotto surrounded by thorn bushes.
He celebrated the divine mysteries there. His splendid virtues, until then unknown to this untaught populace, won many to recognition of the truth of the religion he taught.
He traveled in the area, accompanied by his faithful disciples to preach and to exercise mercy.
There were, it seems, no illnesses which he did not cure, nor demons which he did not drive away with the sign of the Cross.
The pagan altars began to be abandoned. Small oratories were permitted to be established where the faithful could assemble.
The people learned to sing the praises of the true God and clerics were formed to officiate.
Saint Gatian established a cemetery for the burial of Christians outside the city.
Gatian died at an advanced age, having seen Our Lord Jesus Christ come to him during his last illness to awake him from sleep and give him Holy Communion in Viaticum. He died seven days later in 337.
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Bake Cookies Day
Let's See What We Find in the Fridge Day
National Ham Salad Day
National “I Love Honey” Day
National Muffin Day (Brazil)
National Roast Suckling Pig Day
National Stilton Day (UK)
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New Jersey Statehood Day (#3; 1787)
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Eponalia (Feast of Epona; Roman goddess of fertility)
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The Ballad of the Green Berets, recorded by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler (Song; 1965)
*batteries not included (Film; 1987)
The Big Blast or A Many Splintered Thing (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 81; 1960)
Boris Lends a Hand or Count Your Fingers (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 188; 1962)
Boris on a Broomstick or The Flying Sorceror (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 187; 1962)
Born to Boogie (Music Documentary Film; 1972)
Brazil (Film; 1985)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Film; 1957)
Broadcast News (Film; 1987)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Film; 1968)
Cinderella Liberty (Film; 1973)
The Color Purple (Film; 1985)
Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe (Play; 1592)
Dragons of Ashida (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #14; 1964)
From All of Us to All of You (Animated Disney TV Christmas Special; 1958)
Her (Film; 2013)
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (Film; 2015)
Last Train to Christmas (UK Film; 2021)
The Lion Sleeps Tonight, by The Tokens (Song; 1961)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (TV Series; 2020)
Mary Poppins Returns (Film; 2018)
McCartney III, by Paul McCartney (Album; 2020)
Moonstruck (Film; 1987)
More Kittens (Disney Cartoon; 1936)
The Nutcracker, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Ballet; 1892)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (US Film; 1969) [James Bond #6]
Out of Africa (Film; 1985)
Overboard (Film; 1987)
The Prince of Egypt (Animated Film; 1998)
Twistin’ the Night Away, by Sam Cooke (Song; 1961)
The Two Towers (Film; 2002) [The Lord of the Rings #2]
September in the Rain (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)
Sisters (Film; 2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Film; 2015) [Star Wars #7]
The Steal Hour or A Snitch in Time (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 82; 1960)
A Symposium on Popular Songs (Disney Cartoon; 1962)
The Yearling (Film; 1946)
You’ve Got Mail (Film; 1998)
Today’s Name Days
Philipp, Wunibald (Austria)
Bosiljko, Dražen, Gracijan, Malahija (Croatia)
Miloslav (Czech Republic)
Lovise (Denmark)
Neeme, Neemo (Estonia)
Aapo, Aappo, Rami (Finland)
Briac, Gatien (France)
Esperanza, Gratian, Luise (Germany)
Floros, Sebastianos (Greece)
Auguszta (Hungary)
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Daniil (Romania)
Sláva (Slovakia)
Esperanza (Spain)
Abraham (Sweden)
Griffin, Griffith, Ruff, Rufina, Rufus, Russ, Russell, Rusti, Rusty, Ty, Tyrus (USA)
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Day of Year: Day 352 of 2024; 13 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 51 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 21 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 6 (Geng-Xu)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 6 Teveth 5784
Islamic: 5 Jumada II 1445
J Cal: 22 Zima; Oneday [22 of 30]
Julian: 5 December 2023
Moon: 38%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 16 Bichat (13th Month) [Priestley]
Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 8 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 86 of 89)
Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 27 of 30)
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Saint of the Day – 18 December – Saint Gatian of Tours (c 251- 301) First Bishop of Tours, Missionary – St Gatian was the founding Bishop of the see of Tours. He was one of the “Seven apostles of Gaul” commissioned by Pope Fabian to evangelise in the region. St Gatian is also known as Catianus, Gatianus, Gratianus; French: Cassien, Gatien, Gratien. Patronage – Tours, both the City and the Archdiocese.
Pope Fabian sent out seven Bishops from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel – Gatian to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturnin to Toulouse, Denis to Paris, Austromoine to Clermont and Martial to Limoges. A community of Christians had already existed for many years in Lyon, where Irenaeus had been bishop.
St Gatien arrived with with St Dionysius of Paris, about the middle of the third century and preached the faith principally at Tours in Gaul, where he fixed his episcopal see.
There were few Christians in Tours at that time and in one of the troubled years of his Episcopate, he is said for a time to have lain concealed in a cave on the banks of the Loire, at a spot where later rose the great Abbey of Marmoutier. Gratian would go into the city only when opportunities of preaching presented themselves. He devoted half a century to evangelisation, amid innumerable difficulties but with great success too, for at his death, the diocese of Tours was securely established.
Marmoutier Abbey
In a part of the Empire where Mithraism was a dominating force among the legions, the Abbé Jaud reports that Gatian likewise retreated into a grotto and there celebrated the mystical banquet. Gatian was often portrayed officiating a ceremony in a cavern-like setting. Two grottos cut into the limestone hill above the Loire, across from Tours at Marmoutier Abbey, are designated the first sites where Gatian celebrated the liturgy.
Gatianus established a hospice for the poor outside the walls of Tours. There he lay, overcome with weariness, after five decades of fasting, penances and toil. And there, the Sbbé Jaud relates, the Saviour appeared to him, saying, “Fear not! Thy crown is readied and the Saints await thy arrival in Heaven.” The date was the 18 December 301.
After his death, the Bishopric of Tours was orphaned for 36 years due to the recent persecution of Christians by the Emperor Diocletian. Only his successor St Litorius (337-371) was able to build the first church in Tours. It replaced a memorial to the martyr Mauritius. Bishop St Martin of Tours found the buriel site of St Gatian and had them transferred to this church, from which today’s cathedral was built. Since then it has been called Saint Gatian.
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Today many towns, institutions, schools, an airport and even a golf course bear the name of Saint Gatian.
St Gregory of Nazianzen wrote this poem in St Gatian’s honour and it appears in the Roman Martyrology:
“You dissolved darkness
and gave birth to Light
in order to create all things in Light
and to give consistency, to unstable matter,
by shaping it into the shape of a world.
You have, here below,
introduced the image of splendour from above,
so that by the Light man looks at the Light
and becomes entirely Light.”
Saint of the Day – 18 December – Saint Gatian of Tours (c 251- 301) Saint of the Day - 18 December - Saint Gatian of Tours (c 251- 301) First Bishop of Tours, Missionary - St Gatian was the founding Bishop of the see of Tours.
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St. Gatian of Tours
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St. Gatian of Tours
Not much is known about the life of Saint Gatian, but we do know that he was the first bishop of Tours in France, and is said to be a disciple of Saint Denis of Paris. Arriving in a pagan land, completely untouched by the Good News, Gatian scattered the first seeds of the faith in the region of Tours, laying the foundations of the Church in the city of the great Saint Martin.Saint Gatian died in 337.
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SAINT OF THE DAY (December 18)
Not much is known about the life of Saint Gatian, but we do know that he was the first bishop of Tours in France and is said to be a disciple of Saint Denis of Paris.
Arriving in Gaul, a pagan land, completely untouched by the Good News, Gatian scattered the first seeds of the faith in the region of Tours, laying the foundations of the Church in the city of the great Saint Martin.
He devoted half a century to evangelisation, amid innumerable difficulties but with great success too, for at his death, the diocese of Tours was securely established.
Saint Gatian died in 337.
After his death, the Bishopric of Tours was orphaned for 36 years due to the recent persecution of Christians by the Emperor Diocletian.
Only his successor, St Litorius (337-371), was able to build the first church in Tours.
It replaced a memorial to the martyr Mauritius. Bishop St Martin of Tours found the burial site of St Gatian.
He had them transferred to this church, from which today’s cathedral was built. It has been called Saint Gatian since then.
St Gregory of Nazianzen wrote this poem in St Gatian’s honour and it appears in the Roman Martyrology:
“You dissolved darkness
and gave birth to Light
in order to create all things in Light
and to give consistency, to unstable matter,
by shaping it into the shape of a world.
You have, here below,
introduced the image of splendour from above,
so that by the Light man looks at the Light
and becomes entirely Light.”
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Holidays 12.18
Holidays
Answer the Phone Like Buddy the Elf Day
Arabic Language Day (UN)
Australian Christmas (Team Fortress)
Baranth Do (Elder Scrolls)
Flake Appreciation Day
Founder’s Day (Qatar)
Hug a Soccer Player Day
International Migrants Day (UN)
Minifig Day
National Scrooge Week begins (according to Mr. Ed)
National Twin Day
Nutcracker Day
Pink Panther Day
Play Bingo Day
Republic Day (Niger)
Sunday Newspaper Day
Tulya’s E’en (Beginning of Yule Season; Orkney Island)
Wear a Plunger On Your Head Day
Yuletide Lad #7 arrives (Hurdaskellir or Door-Slammer; Iceland)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Bake Cookies Day
Let's See What We Find in the Fridge Day
National Give a Wine Club Day
National Ham Salad Day
National “I Love Honey” Day
National Roast Suckling Pig Day
3rd Sunday in December
4th Sunday in Advent [1st Sunday before Xmas] (a.k.a. ...
Advent Sunday
Peace Sunday
Independence Days
New Jersey Statehood Day (#3; 1787)
Qatar (1878)
Feast Days
Eponalia (Feast of Epona; Roman goddess of fertility)
Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian)
Fantastic Finkleman (Muppetism)
Feast of Our Lady of Solitude (Mexico)
Flannán (Christian; Saint)
Gatianus (a.k.a. Gatian) of Tours (Christian; Saint)
Hanukkah (Judaism) [begins at sundown]
O Adonai (a.k.a. Great Advent Antiphons or Great Os; Christian; Saint)
Priestley (Positivist; Saint)
Rufus and Zozimus (Christian; Martyrs)
Running of the Roboderos (Church of the SubGenius)
Sebastian (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Unusual Music Instruments Day (Pastafarian)
Urdhyauli Parwa (Festival of the Animals; Nepal)
Winibald (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [37 of 37]
Premieres
Anchorrman 2 (Film; 2013)
Avatar (Film; 2009)
The Ballad of the Green Berets, recorded by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler (Song; 1965)
Brazil (Film; 1985)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Film; 1968)
The Color Purple (Film; 1985)
Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe (Play; 1592)
Her (Film; 2013)
The Lion Sleeps Tonight, by The Tokens (Song; 1961)
McCartney III, by Paul McCartney (Album; 2020)
The Nutcracker, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Ballet; 1892)
Out of Africa (Film; 1985)
Twisting’ the Night Away, by Sam Cooke (Song; 1961)
The Two Towers (Film; 2002) [The Lord of the Rings #2]
Sisters (Film; 2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Film; 2015)
Today’s Name Days
Philipp, Wunibald (Austria)
Bosiljko, Dražen, Gracijan, Malahija (Croatia)
Miloslav (Czech Republic)
Lovise (Denmark)
Neeme, Neemo (Estonia)
Aapo, Aappo, Rami (Finland)
Briac, Gatien (France)
Esperanza, Gratian, Luise (Germany)
Floros, Sebastianos (Greece)
Auguszta (Hungary)
Graziano (Italy)
Jordisa, Klinta, Kristaps, Sarmis (Latvia)
Eivilė, Girdvilas, Gracijus (Lithuania)
Kate, Kristoffer (Norway)
Bogusław, Gracjan, Gracjana, Laurencja, Wilibald, Wszemir (Poland)
Daniil (Romania)
Sláva (Slovakia)
Esperanza (Spain)
Abraham (Sweden)
Griffin, Griffith, Ruff, Rufina, Rufus, Russ, Russell, Rusti, Rusty, Ty, Tyrus (USA)
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Day of Year: Day 352 of 2022; 13 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 50 of 2022
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 23 of 28]
Chinese: Month 11 (Dōngyuè), Day 25 (Yi-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 24 Kislev 5783
Islamic: 24 Jumada I 1444
J Cal: 22 Zima; Sunday [22 of 30]
Julian: 5 December 2022
Moon: 27%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 16 Bichat (12th Month) [Priestley]
Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 87 of 90)
Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 26 of 30)
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Holidays 12.18
Holidays
Answer the Phone Like Buddy the Elf Day
Arabic Language Day (UN)
Australian Christmas (Team Fortress)
Baranth Do (Elder Scrolls)
Flake Appreciation Day
Founder’s Day (Qatar)
Hug a Soccer Player Day
International Migrants Day (UN)
Minifig Day
National Scrooge Week begins (according to Mr. Ed)
National Twin Day
Nutcracker Day
Pink Panther Day
Play Bingo Day
Republic Day (Niger)
Sunday Newspaper Day
Tulya’s E’en (Beginning of Yule Season; Orkney Island)
Wear a Plunger On Your Head Day
Yuletide Lad #7 arrives (Hurdaskellir or Door-Slammer; Iceland)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Bake Cookies Day
Let's See What We Find in the Fridge Day
National Give a Wine Club Day
National Ham Salad Day
National “I Love Honey” Day
National Roast Suckling Pig Day
3rd Sunday in December
4th Sunday in Advent [1st Sunday before Xmas] (a.k.a. ...
Advent Sunday
Peace Sunday
Independence Days
New Jersey Statehood Day (#3; 1787)
Qatar (1878)
Feast Days
Eponalia (Feast of Epona; Roman goddess of fertility)
Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian)
Fantastic Finkleman (Muppetism)
Feast of Our Lady of Solitude (Mexico)
Flannán (Christian; Saint)
Gatianus (a.k.a. Gatian) of Tours (Christian; Saint)
Hanukkah (Judaism) [begins at sundown]
O Adonai (a.k.a. Great Advent Antiphons or Great Os; Christian; Saint)
Priestley (Positivist; Saint)
Rufus and Zozimus (Christian; Martyrs)
Running of the Roboderos (Church of the SubGenius)
Sebastian (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Unusual Music Instruments Day (Pastafarian)
Urdhyauli Parwa (Festival of the Animals; Nepal)
Winibald (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [37 of 37]
Premieres
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SAINT OF THE DAY (December 18)
Saint Gatian (Gatianus of Tours), who lived in the third century, was the founder and bishop of Tours.
He came to Gaul with Saint Dionysius of Paris during the consulate of Decius and Gratus around the year 250.
A most pious man and a true disciple of Christ, Gatian spent the next fifty years evangelizing this pagan area.
Because the people were so ingrained in their idolatry of false gods, his evangelization efforts were not only difficult but also dangerous.
He underwent much persecution and threats were constantly being made on his life.
Many masses were held in grottos and caves where he would gather his converts to celebrate the mysteries of the faith.
Despite all the obstacles he encountered while spreading the Gospel, he persevered.
He didn’t fear his persecutors, for he did not value his life above bringing souls to Christ.
He was always ready to lay down his life for the faith.
Some legends claim that Saint Gatian was one of the seventy-two disciples of Christ and that Saint Peter himself had sent him to Gaul during the first century.
This would mean, of course, that he lived at an earlier time than we have recorded.
However, Gregory of Tours, a bishop who lived in the sixth century, refutes this story in his writings.
Source: Catholic Exchange
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The holy bishop Gatian died at an advanced age (d. 337), having seen Our Lord Jesus Christ come to him during his last illness to awake him from sleep and give him Holy Communion in Viaticum.
He died seven days later.
The Cathedral of Tours still possesses a few fragments of his relics, which Saint Martin had placed in that principal church, but which wars and persecutions scattered and destroyed in large part.
Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 14
Source: sanctoral.com
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