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Sernin Saturnin
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.
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
bishop dragged by a bull bishop with a bull at his feet bull, cross and miter
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