The Great Procession of Tournai

Silver reliquary bust of Saint Piatus St-Piatus' Church, contemporary plate, 1957.

St Piatus, Tournai's apostle. He was a member of a missionaries' group evangelizating the north of Gaul at the end of the 3^rd century. Under the church bearing his name, a basilic dating back to the 6^th century (or before) was found in 1970, an evidence of the antiquity of his cult in Tournai. The city has always considered him to be its first apostle.