CONCERNING ST. VINDEMIALIS, BISHOP OF VERONA IN ITALY.
CommentaryVindemialis, Bishop of Verona in Italy (Saint)
G. H.
[1] Among the thirty-three, or thirty-six, holy Bishops of the city of Verona, whom Aloysius Lippomano and Augustine Valerio, both Bishops of Verona, report are recalled with anniversary feasts and solemn Masses, St. Servulus the Bishop is celebrated on February 26, The acts of St. Vindemialis, Bishop of Verona whose Acts we gave there on page 662, and what was said at number 1 pertains equally to St. Vindemialis, who is venerated on the 28th of the same February, and need not be repeated here. Concerning him the same Valerio on folio 43 reports this encomium: Vindemialis, Bishop of Verona, labored especially to ensure that, with all human affairs despised, the flock committed to him by the Lord, a man most devoted to the Christian religion, of the mildest character, he fulfilled the episcopal office with great praise and to the benefit of the people of Verona. He died on the day before the Kalends of March; his body was buried in the basilica of St. Stephen. The same Valerio, burial folio 12, says: The body of St. Vindemialis, Bishop of Verona, rests in the Church of St. Stephen, as is known from an old tablet, from Francesco Corna, and from the table of Saints, on the 28th of February. Concerning the authority of these records, we treated in the Life of St. Servulus. Valerio then adds: In the consecration of the altar of St. James in the church of the Holy Apostles, relics relics of St. Vindemialis, Bishop of Verona, were also deposited, as is known from the old Psalter of that same church. cult Galesini, from the tables of the Saints of the Church of Verona and Francesco Corna, says in his Martyrology on this day: At Verona, St. Vindemialis, Bishop and Confessor. Ferrari follows in his new Catalogue of Saints. But in the Catalogue of Italian Saints he copies the eulogy from Valerio: as does also Ughelli in his Bishops of Verona, who also judges that the twenty-eighth Bishop flourished in the fifth century. Ferrari asserts that he is believed to have lived after the year five hundred. In a certain catalogue published in Italian at Verona in the year 1602, he is listed as the sixteenth Bishop, time of his see and is placed as having flourished around the year four hundred. More truly it can be said of his era and that of very many Bishops that the time when each governed that Church has nowhere been clearly and expressly indicated.