Saint Donatian of Rheims
- Also known as
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Donas
Donatianus
Donatien
Donazianus
- Memorial
- 14 October
- Profile
- Seventh bishop of Rheims, France from 360 to 390.
- Born
- 4th century at Rome, Italy
- Died
- 390 of natural causes;
bones enshrined at Corbie, France;
relics relocated to Torhout, Belgium;
Charles the Bald later gave the relics to Earl Baldwin of Flanders;
relics translated to Bruges, Belgium in 863;
relics enshrined in the cathedral in Bruges
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
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Bruges, Belgium
Rheims, France
West Flanders, Belgium
- Representation
- bishop holding a wheel outlined in candles
- Additional Information
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Catholic Online
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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