Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume X: October. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
October 14St. Donatian, Bishop of Rheims, Confessor
| [Patron of Bruges.] HE was the seventh bishop of Rheims, and died about the year 389. Charles the Bald having bestowed the relics of this saint on Baldwin, whom he had created earl of Flanders, to hold of him that rich province as a fief, in 863, the earl deposited them in the church of Bruges, which, thereupon, took the title of St. Donatian’s, being before called our Lady’s. It was made a bishop’s cathedral in 1559. See Flodoard, in Hist. Rhem. Marlot, Hist. de Rheims, c. 1. Ant. Sanders Hagiogr. Flandr. p. 133. Molan. et Miræus. | 1 |