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Senator of Verona

7 January · commentary
Latin source: Heiligenlexikon
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St. Senator, Bishop of Verona, held office between Saints Proculus and Probus, reportedly under the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian (late 3rd century). He is praised for holiness, learning, and gravity; his body was deposited in the basilica of St. Stephen. 3rd century

ON ST. SENATOR, BISHOP OF VERONA

Commentary

Senator, Bishop of Verona in Italy (St.)

[1] Galesinius and Ferrarius record the birthday of Senator, Bishop of Verona, on this day, although the latter testifies that the feast is deferred to January 19 on account of the Octave of the Epiphany. The birthday of St. Senator.

[2] Concerning him, the same Ferrarius writes thus in his Catalogue of the Saints of Italy: "Senator administered the bishopric of Verona between the Saints Proculus and Probus, under the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian. He was a man endowed with holiness, learning, and dignity, and with the other virtues that are required in the best Bishop. He joined affability to gravity. And when he had governed the Church for several years with the greatest praise and benefit to the people, he at length departed this life on the 7th of the Ides of January January 7. His body, deposited in the basilica of St. Stephen, is held in great honor." Galesinius testifies to the same regarding the body in his Notes. St. Proculus, Bishop of Verona, is venerated on March 23; St. Probus on January 12. But what Ferrarius states here, that St. Senator flourished under Diocletian and Maximian, he calls into question on March 23, contending that St. Proculus his predecessor flourished under Claudius Maximinus, who seized the Empire in the year 235.

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