Acta Sanctorum

Aldus

10 January · commentary
Latin source: Heiligenlexikon
St. Aldus, a hermit venerated at Pavia in Italy, whose dates and origins are unknown. His body was first interred in the chapel of St. Columbanus at Pavia and later translated to the basilica of St. Michael. He may have been a monk of Bobbio who adopted the eremitical life.

ON ST. ALDUS, HERMIT, AT PAVIA IN ITALY.

Commentary

Aldus, hermit at Pavia in Italy (S.)

[1] Ferrarius writes the following in his general catalogue of Saints: "On the fourth day before the Ides of January, at Pavia, St. Aldus, hermit." But in the catalogue of Saints of Italy: "When and where St. Aldus lived, I have not yet been able to discover. His body was first interred in the chapel of St. Columbanus at Pavia; thence it was translated to the basilica of St. Michael, and there his feast is customarily celebrated." He is mentioned by Jacobus Gualla, book 6, chapter 8, of his Sanctuarium; by Stephanus Breventanus, book 3 of his Ticinian History -- who, however, write that the body rests in the cathedral church; and by Arnold Wion, book 3 of his Lignum Vitae, in the additions. From this last source it may be conjectured that St. Aldus was a monk of Bobbio who led the eremitical life in the neighboring places. So writes Ferrarius. We shall treat of the illustrious monastery of Bobbio on November 21, in the life of St. Columbanus.