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ST LIDORIUS, BISHOP OF TOURS - 13 SEPTEMBER

 

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Saints celebrated on the 13th of September

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SAINT LIDORIUS, BISHOP OF TOURS 

1. Tours Cathedral,
2. Cloisters of the Cathedral of Tours

Saint Lidorius, also Litorius, Litorus, Ledorius, Lidorus and Lictor is called in French St-Lidoire. He was the second Bishop of Tours in France, was a native of this city and an extremely religious man. 

AN EXTREMELY RELIGIOUS MAN

After the first bishop, St Gratianus, had died, the episcopal chair had remained vacant for 37 years, until  our St Lidorius became his successor in 337 or 338.

St Gregory says that St Lidorius had built the first church in his episcopal city and created the first basilica (the latter was converted from what was originally the house of a senator) because there were already several Christians there. 

HE HELD THE EPISCOPAL OFFICE FOR 33 YEARS

At that time St Martin, the famous Bishop of Tours who succeeded him, had already begun to preach. 

St Lidorius died godly around the year 370 or 371 (after having held the episcopal office for 33 years). According to the report of St Gregory he was buried in the above-mentioned basilica, which then bore his name for a long time. 

HIS RELICS

As the Bollandists also note, his relics stayed there until the city of Tours was overrun by the Calvinists in 1562, who then scattered his relics. According to Butler St Perpetius, the 6th Bishop of Tours, introduced a vigil on the feast of St Lidorius.

His name is not included in the Roman Martyrology; the Bollandists have listed his name on September 13.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869)

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Lidorius may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org



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