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Saint Gratien of Amiens

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Breton bishop martyred by pagans while on pilgrimage to Rome, Italy.

c.286 in Saint-Gratien, diocese of Amiens, France
his walnut pilgrim‘s staff was stuck into the ground on the site of his execution; it took root and grew there; as late as 1117, that tree, though stripped bare, would burst into leaf and be covered in fruit on the night of his feast
relics enshrined in the Coulombs monastery, diocese of Chartres, France in the 11th century
relics hidden in the palace of the archbishop in Paris, France during the anti–Christian persecutions of the French Revolution
relics somehow lost in 1830