ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 13th of September WELCOME! 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 d...