Saturnin

**Saturnin of Toulouse** (Latin: Saturninus, Occitan: Sarnin, French: Saturnin, Sernin, Catalan: Serni, Sadurní, Galician: Sadurninho and Portuguese: Saturnino, Sadurninho, Basque: Satordi, Saturdi, Zernin, and Spanish: Saturnino, Serenín, Cernín) was one of the *"Apostles to the Gauls"* sent out (probably under the direction of Pope Fabian, 236–250) during the consulate of Decius and Gratus (250–251) to Christianise Gaul after the persecutions under Emperor Decius had all but dissolved the small Christian communities. Fabian sent out seven bishops from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel: Gatien to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturnin to Toulouse, Denis to Paris, Austromoine to Clermont, and Martial to Limoges. His feast day is 29 November.

## Tarihi
Saturnin an kira shi Bishop na farko na Tolosa (Toulouse). Ayyukan da suka ɓace na Saturninus an yi amfani da su a matsayin tushen tarihi ta hanyar mai ba da labari Gregory na Tours.  Shahadar ta ba da asalin Saturnin: ɗan Aegeus, Sarkin Akaya, da matarsa Cassandra, wanda, kanta, 'yar Ptolemy ce, Sarkin Ninevites. *Ayyukan Manzanni* sun sanya Saturninus a ƙarni na 1, sun sanya shi ɗaya daga cikin almajiran 72 na Kristi, sun sanya shi a Jibin Ƙarshe. Labaran da ke da alaƙa da Saturninus sun bayyana cewa bayan Bitrus ya tsarkake shi a matsayin bishop, "an ba shi ga abokinsa Papulus, daga baya ya zama Saint Papulus the Martyr. "  Labarin ya bayyana cewa ban da Papulus, Saturninus yana da Honestus a matsayin almajiri.

Bayani daga Ayyukan Manzanni da aka zaɓa don tunawa a yau ya bayyana shahadarsa: don isa cocin Kirista Saturninus dole ne ya wuce gaban babban coci (kada a rikita shi da Capitole de Toulouse na yanzu wanda aka kafa shafinsa a karni na 12, Roman Capitol na birnin ya kasance kusa da Wurin Esquirol na yanzu), inda akwai bagade, kuma bisa ga Ayyukan Manzanni, firistocin arna sun danganta shiruwar annabin su ga kasancewar Saturninus akai-akai. Wata rana sun kama shi kuma a kan rashin amincewarsa da yin hadaya ga siffofin sun hukunta shi da a ɗaure shi da ƙafafun bijimi wanda ya ja shi a cikin garin har sai igiyar ta fashe.[1] (A bayyane yake, an danganta irin wannan makomar ga ɗalibinsa Fermin wanda wurin shahadarsa yake a Pamplona.)

An ce bijimin ya gama a wurin tun lokacin da ake kira *Mata*biau*,* wato, matar ("kisan") da biau ko bœuf ("bull"). Canjin wannan shahadar, *Tauroctony,* "kisan bijimi," *shanu* ainihin al'adar Mithraism, mafi mahimmancin gunkin a cikin Mithraeum, kwatancin Mithras a cikin aikin *Kashewa* bijimi. An zana tauroctony ko kuma an nuna shi a cikin zane-zane, wani lokacin a kan bagaden. Mata biyu Krista (*puellae* da ake tunawa da su a matsayin "les Puelles") sun tattara ragowar kuma sun binne su a cikin "mai zurfi", cewa arna ba za su lalata su ba. Ba za a iya wucewa ba, a wannan ɓangaren Gaul, inda har ma a yau babban bijimi daga cikin mutane da yawa a Toulouse ana girmama shi da sunan "Le Grand Taur", cewa zurfin rami a zahiri mithraeum ne.

Shafin, wanda aka ce "inda bijimin ya tsaya", yana kan rue du Taur ("Hanyar bijimin"). Hanyar da ke da sunan Mithraic tana ɗaya daga cikin titunan gicciye na Romawa na asali wanda ke gudana kai tsaye daga Capitole yanzu zuwa Romanesque Basilica don girmama Saint Saturnin ("St Sernin").

## Manazarta