November 29 - Saint Saturninus of Toulouse
Quick Facts- Born to the third century Roman nobility.
- Missionary to Gaul, the Pyrenees, and the Iberian peninsula.
- Worked with Saint Papoul.
- Many converts including the farmer now known as Saint Honestus who joined him in the missions.Imprisoned at Carcassone by the prefect Rufinus, they were freed by an angel.
- First bishop of Toulouse, where he teamed with Saint Martial to perform miraculous healings.
- Converted and baptized Saint Firminus who was later bishop 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.
