ON SAINT THEODORE
BISHOP OF BOLOGNA IN ITALY.
ABOUT THE YEAR DL.
CommentaryTheodore, Bishop of Bologna in Italy (S.)
G. H.
The sacred memory of this Bishop on this V May in the present-day tables of the Roman Martyrology is preserved with these words: At Bologna of S. Theodore the Bishop, famous for merits. Ferdinand Ughellus tom. 2 of Italia sacra in the Bologna Archbishops composed for him this encomium. Sacred cult S. Theodore obtained the same See of Bologna, to which Pope Agapitus asserted authority over all the monasteries, churches, Presbyters and Clerics of his diocese. He died on the fifth day of the month of May: which day in honor of the Saint is held solemn, and he was buried at S. Felix. S. Pope Agapitus sat ten months and some days partly in the year DXXXI, partly in the following year. He is venerated XX September. Which monasteries here of the Bologna diocese he subjected to S. Theodore, those in monasteries. Sigonius enumerates thus book 1 on the Bologna Bishops: SS. Vitalis and Agricolas in Arena, S. Proculus, SS. Felix and Nabor, SS. Gervasius and Protasius, S. Stephen in Jerusalem, S. John in mount Olivet, S. Mary in mount Palense, S. Michael in fundus Paterno, S. Helena, and S. Barbatian.
[2] Antonius Paulus Masini, part 2 of Bologna perlustrated in the Bologna Bishops, asserts, time of the See: that S. Theodore presided over the Bologna church from the year DXXX to the year DL, and was buried in the ancient Cathedral church, which is now SS. Nabor and Felix; and is preserved still before the altar dedicated to S. Francis, burial. and thence at six feet in a separated stone these words are read: Here rests in peace Theodore. The same Masini in the prior part on this V May asserts, that the said church of SS. Nabor and Felix is of nuns; and that the Pontifical gauntlets are preserved in the church of S. Mary among the Servite Fathers. The same on this day celebrate Ferrarius in the Catalog of Saints of Italy, Celsus Faleonus book 1 of Historical Memories of the Bologna Church, Ludovicus Zacconus in his compendium on the Lives of Saints, and Nicolaus Brautius in the Poetic Martyrology: who composed for him this distich.
Highest over Abbots, conceded both every sex,
Pastor to the Pastor: every right good, to the good.