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Donatian of Reims
French saint and bishop
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Donatien of Reims (also known as Donatien or Donat) was a 4th-century French saint[1] and the 8th Bishop of Reims.[2]
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Detail of St. Donatian, from Jan van Eyck's Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele (1436) |
He died in AD 389, and in AD 863 the count of Flanders Baldwin I transferred his relics to the Church Saint-Agricol de Reims at Bruges, where his cult is still active. He is venerated as a saint and his feast day is celebrated on 14 October.[1] In Christian iconography, Donatian is pictured holding a water wheel or bearing candles.
Legend
A legend has it that he was thrown as a child into a river, where a holy man took five candles and placed them on a water wheel which showed where the child had gone, and he was able to recover the child.[3]
