ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 16th of April WELCOME! SAINT THURIBIUS, BISHOP OF LE MANS Thuribius (Turibius) is the second of the bishops of Le Mans (Cenomanum). According to the Gall. Chr .*, he died around the year 495. Certain traditions, however, relate that he was a Roman by birth and lived much earlier. The holy Apostles Peter and Paul (another version says, Pope Clement) sent him to Gaul as a companion and assistant of St Julian . At length, Thuribius became his successor on the shepherd's throne of Le Mans. He preached the gospel in and around the city with all zeal, aided by the gift of miracles. Among those he converted was a distinguished woman named Savina, whose husband Cajanus persecuted him in every way. But when God punished the husband with blindness and loss of speech, he turned to himself. Bishop Thuribius, by his prayers, healed Cajanus in both body and soul. The latter, now a new man, built the first Christian church in ...