The Great Procession of Tournai


Reliquaries of Saint Quentin and Saint Donat St-Quentin's church, plate, early 20th century

Saint Quentin was an apostle of Vermandois. This group was attributed the evangelization of the North of Gaul at the end of the 3rd century. He is, since the Carolingian era, the patron of a church in Tournai.

Saint Donat was a bishop of Arezzo. He was dead a as martyr in the 4th century. He is worshiped in Tournai since the 17th century.


© Frédéric Denonne September 96.