![[illustration of Saint Saturninus]](http://saints.sqpn.com/saints39.jpg "jpg detail from an illustration of Saint Saturninus from 'Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints', by Monsignor Paul Guérin, Bloud et Barral, Paris, 1882")
Also known as
- Sernin of Toulouse
- Saturnin of Toulouse
- 29 November
- 30 October (translation of relics)
Profile
Born to the third century Roman nobility. Missionary to Gaul, the Pyrenees, and the Iberian peninsula. Worked with Saint Papoul. He converted many, including the farmer now known as Saint Honestus who joined him as a missionary. Imprisoned in Carcassone by the prefect Rufinus, Saturninus and his group were freed by an angel. He became the first bishop of Toulouse in modern France), where he teamed with Saint Martial to perform miraculous healings. Converted and baptized Saint Firminus of Amiens.
When Saturninus began his work in Toulouse, the local pagan priests stopped receiving oracular messages from their gods. One day in 257, when the priests were hopelessly frustrated, Saturninus passed by in the street. The priests blamed the bishop, and ordered the crowd of heathens to seize him and force him to offer sacrifice to their gods. The idols fell to pieces in front of the bishop, and the crowd murdered him.
Born
- dragged to death by a bull c.257 in Toulouse, France
- two Christian women gathered up his remains and buried them in a ditch
- a church called the Taur (bull) was built where the bull stopped
- relics at the basilica at Toulouse
- against ants
- against bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- death anxiety
- against fraud
- against headaches
- against mad cow disease
- against nausea
- against pain
- against plague
- against scrapie
- against smallpox
- against syphilis
- bullfighters
- smallpox patients
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- Burgo de San Cernin, Navarra, Spain
- Minderau, Germany
- Motte-Saint-Jean, Burgundy, France
- Pamplona, Spain
- Roche-Vineuse, Burgundy, France
- Sant Sadurni d’Anoia, Catalonia, Spain
- Sant Sadurni d’Osormort, Catalonia, Spain
- Sant Sadurni de l’heure, Catalonia, Spain
- Sardinia, Italy
- Navarre, Spain
- St-Sernin-d’Apt, France
- St-Sernin-du-Bois, Burgundy, France
- St-Sernin-du-Plain, Burgundy, France
- Toulouse, France
- Vauban, Burgundy, France
- Weissenau, Germany
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia, by Antoine Degert
- Heiligen 3s
- Katherine Rabenstein
- Kirken i Norge
- Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
- Pictorial Lives of the Saints
MLA Citation
- “Saint Saturninus of Toulouse”. Saints.SQPN.com. 10 October 2010. Web. 20 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-saturninus-of-toulouse/>