18th December – Saint Gatian of Tours
Our Saviour appeared to Gatian saying, “Fear not! Thy crown is readied and the Saints await thy arrival in Heaven.”
You dissolved darkness and gave birth to Light in order to create all things in Light and to give consistency, to unstable matter, by shaping it into the shape of a world. You have, here below, introduced the image of splendour from above, so that by the Light man looks at the Light and becomes entirely Light. (Written by St. Gregory of Nazianzen in St. Gatian’s honor)
