ON SAINT DIMIDRIANUS, BISHOP OF VERONA IN ITALY.
3RD CENTURY
CommentaryDimidrianus, Bishop of Verona in Italy (S.)
G. H.
[1] Among the XXXVI holy Bishops of Verona, whom according to the custom of the Cathedral Church the Table of the Saints, made in the year 1518, indicates to be celebrated with a Double Office. That on these Ides of May S. Dimidrianus is venerated, Francis Corna also testifies in the book which he wrote in plain and native speech in the year 1477. But that his sacred body, with the Relics of several other holy Bishops, is preserved in the church of S. Stephen the Protomartyr, now Parochial, formerly (as is commonly believed) Cathedral, is established from the ancient parchment Table hung in the sacristy of the said church. Which things being set forth, Augustine Valerius, Bishop of that same Church of Verona, adds that eulogy of his Life.
[2] kindly toward his own: Dimidrianus, Bishop of Verona, was held in his times as a model of Episcopal virtues, and was plainly called a divine man, because he never ceased to profit men by various kinds of virtues: with great charity he joined excellent doctrine. He died on the Ides of May: his body's sepulchre is in the basilica of S. Stephen. Thus there. Some of his Relics are with the nuns in the monastery or church of S. Mary Magdalene. Ferrarius celebrates the same S. Dimidrianus in the General Catalogue and in another of the Saints of Italy, but nothing is found among these writers of the time in which he flourished. Onuphrius Panvinius in book 4 of the Veronese Antiquities, chapter 7, reckons S. Dimidrianus among the ancient Bishops, as if he had lived in the third century of Christ: his time of the See. and therefore Ughellus in the Bishops of Verona, and John Francis Tinti in book 5 of the Veronese Nobility, chapter 9, number him the seventh Bishop, asserting that Dimidrianus died on the XV of May of the year of Christ 265, the 29th of his See, and was buried in the church of S. Stephen. Nicholas Brautius, Bishop of Sarsina, in his Metric Martyrology, honors him with this distich:
Dimidrianus the Bishop was ever ready, gratefully, To bring friendly help to all.