ON ST. JUVENTINUS, ARCHDEACON AND CONFESSOR AMONG THE TADINATES IN UMBRIA
Perhaps after the beginning of the seventh century, or in the ninth or tenth century.
CommentaryON ST. JUVENTINUS, ARCHDEACON AND CONFESSOR AMONG THE TADINATES IN UMBRIA
BY J. P.
To St. Facundinus, bishop of Tadinum, whom I have just given, I here join St. Juventinus, his archdeacon and disciple, found by me hitherto in no Calendars, but yet having obtained public veneration from time immemorial, Various notices concerning this Saint as is made out from the Life of the praised St. Facundinus, in which this Saint also is often praised. Now the proofs of public veneration occur there as follows. In chapter 6, number 56, his death being narrated, and his burial in the same church in which St. Facundinus was laid, there is recited a prayer proper to both, which, as you have there, is sung at their veneration. To these things in our Ms. of that same Life or Legend of St. Facundinus there is prefixed that title: On St. Juventinus the archdeacon. But in the Commentary preliminary to that same Life, §2, number 14, there is treatment of the church of St. Facundinus, and of the bodies of both translated to it. There follows in the same place at number 15 another finding of those bodies or bones, and a solemn translation made with the consent of the bishop of Nocera, which are narrated from Jacobilli as afterwards laid beneath a new altar.
[2] from the Life of St. Facundinus, bishop of Tadinum. The same author, after the Life of St. Facundinus, of which I have spoken in that same Commentary, subjoins the Life of St. Juventinus at page 39 and following, and asserts that he was of Tadinum, and afterwards a Lateran canon under the rule of St. Augustine, when he had been made the disciple of St. Facundinus. Concerning his virtues, which he records, consult the Life of St. Facundinus. The title of archdeacon, which in that Life and in Jacobilli is attributed to our Saint, I have left to him above, even though I cannot prove it from more ancient documents. As regards the time, Jacobilli marks the second day of September of the year 612: neither pleases me, because I do not know why, or on what author's authority, he sets it down. But since the year of his death is hidden from me, I have marked it above as perhaps after the beginning of the seventh century, or in the ninth century or the tenth, and that in some conformity with what was said of St. Facundinus. Further, that neither of these two Saints is to be confounded with two Martyrs of the same names announced by Ferrari at the second day of September, I have indicated in the Annotations on the Life of St. Facundinus, chapter 1, letter f.