Saturnin did his sacrifice backwards
[d. 257]
Saturnin, in third-century Toulouse, refused to make a sacrifice at a certain pagan temple. Instead, he said, he'd rather sacrifice himself. So they tied his feet to the flank of a bull, which they were planning on killing that day, and let it run loose until, it is said, Saturnin’s “head was all to-broken and the brain sprang out.”
Coincidentally, maybe ironically, in the lost Roman religion of Mithraism — which Saturnin’s killers might very well have been practicing — the god Saturn helps Mithras kill a sacred bull. Below, a Mithraic relic. Big time for bulls.