Tatianus

Holy Martyr Tatianus was a deacon of Aquileia and suffered on 16 March 284, in the time of the emperor Numerian, together with Bishop Hilary, the second bishop of the city.

They are venerated as saints, especially in the lands of the old metropolis of the patriarchate of Aquileia. Probably as early as the fourth century, the relics of the two martyrs were gathered in an octagonal martyrium inside the city. In 568, when the Lombards of King Alboin arrived, Patriarch Paulinus I fled to Grado with the treasure of the Church and the relics of the martyrs of Aquileia, among them those of Hilary and Tatianus. They are saints of the undivided Church, honoured in the Catholic Church.