Domitian of Maastricht

Saint Domitian of Maastricht (Domitian of Huy) was a bishop in Gaul in the sixth century, chosen first at Tongeren and then moving his seat to Maastricht. He reposed around 560. He is called the Apostle of the Meuse Valley and is commemorated on 7 May.

He took part in the council of Clermont in 535 and spoke convincingly against heretics at the Fifth Council of Orléans in 549. He built churches and hospices to care for people spiritually and physically and was known for his generosity and for his talent in raising funds, which once helped ease a famine in his bishopric.

His relics are kept in the church of Notre-⁠Dame at Huy in Belgium, of which he is patron. He is remembered in a procession to a local spring and is invoked against fevers. According to tradition he delivered the region from a dragon that had contaminated the water supply. He is sometimes depicted with a dragon at his feet.