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Today (18. December) is the feast day of:
Gatian (late third century and/or early fourth, supposedly). G. (Gatianus, Catianus; in French, Gatien) is the legendary protobishop of Tours. According to Gregory of Tours' _Historia Francorum_, he was one of a group of missionaries sent from Rome in 250 to evangelize Gaul and was bishop of Tours for fifty years. G. has several quite fictional medieval Vitae (BHL 3267-69) as well as at least one miracle collection (BHL 3270). In time he came to be associated with St. Dionysius (Denys) and was re-dated to the first century as one of the legendary apostolic founders of the church of France.
Depictions of G. (thirteenth-/early sixteenth-century) in manuscripts of the Bibliothèque municipale at Tours:
http://tinyurl.com/2thlfp
Tours' late twelfth-/early sixteenth-century cathedral of St-Gatien was rededicated to G. in the fourteenth century. The previous dedicatee was St. Maurice. Herewith a plan and a few views.
Plan:
http://tinyurl.com/y4bosx
Views (multiple):
http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/photos.cfm?ID=s0011458
http://www.kathedralen.net/tours/tours00.html
http://homepage.mac.com/lavigne1/PhotoAlbum30.html
This one has views of frescoes restored in 1994:
http://perso.orange.fr/police.daniel/Riboul/Tours.htm
West front:
http://tinyurl.com/yehbcd
http://tinyurl.com/yblhxz
Nave:
http://www.uquebec.ca/musique/orgues/france/tourssg3.jpg
http://www.uquebec.ca/musique/orgues/france/tourssg2.jpg
Chevet:
http://tinyurl.com/troc8
http://tinyurl.com/ye69hl
Stained glass:
Louis IX at Sens with the Crown of Thorns:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/loui/hob_37.173.3.htm
Jesse:
http://site.voila.fr/CentreChartrain/Vitraux/Tours/tours2e10.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
(last year's post lightly revised)
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