 Tradition holds he came from a noble family of Rome.He was named "Lucius" like his father, but when he was converted to Christianity by Saint Peter himself, he took the name of Lucian.As a young man, he preached in Italy and then he was ordained bishop by Pope Clement I (who actually lived in a different century), who sent him to Gaul with Saint Denis and Rieul of Reims, among others (Lucian is also called an associate of Saint Quentin), to preach there.