ON SAINT ADAM
ABBOT OF FERMO IN PICENO.
CommentaryAdam, Abbot of Fermo in Piceno (S.)
G. H.
Fermo or Firmium a city of Piceno, after Ancona the chief, celebrates on this day May 16 the feast of St. Adam the Abbot under a rite double, on account of his sacred body, which in the Metropolitan Church laid to be testifies Ferrarius in the Catalogue of the Saints of Italy; Notice of his monastery from St. Gregory, but he grieves to himself of this holy Abbot's Acts to see not to have happened, nor whether they are extant to know to have been able. The same Ferrarius in the Catalogue general afterward edited, adds St. Adam to have been Abbot of the monastery of St. Sabinus, which in the time of St. Gregory the Pope existed, as from the epistle 71 and 72 of book 7 appears. In the prior, the Pope commands Passinus Bishop of Fermo, that he consecrate the oratory of St. Sabinus near the walls of the city of Fermo. In the latter indeed he commands Chrysanthus Bishop of Spoleto, that the sanctuaries of B. Sabinus the Martyr he grant to Valerianus the Notary of the Church of Fermo, so that in this holy Martyr's name a built oratory might solemnly be consecrated. Hence we gather, if the monastery which there was built, had to be destroyed, the sacred body of St. Adam to have been to the Metropolitan Church brought; but to have perished the notice of the life and miracles together with the place of the prior burial and cult.
[2] On this occasion the aforesaid Ferrarius adds, that there, at Fermo, among the Minors of B. Adam, an eminent formerly preacher and with miracles glittering, is extant a memory: about whom it is reported, Another at Fermo among the Franciscans. that he sometime to the way, through devious places straying, in a habit by a wolf seized brought back was: sometime also swallows, amid his preaching chattering, a made to them precept that they be silent, from clamor restrained; to have flourished moreover about the year of our salvation 1287. Thus he from the Chronicle of the Minors bk. 5, part 2. The same about the same, but with a phrase various, narrate Rodulfus Tossinianus fol. 257 treating of the Custody of Fermo, and Luke Wadding to the year 1234 no. 11, and more other adjoins miracles from Marianus: but in the Addenda to volume 1, subjoined to volume 7, he acknowledges, those to pertain to another Adam, by surname Rufus, who in the Barletta Convent rests. About neither's ecclesiastical cult anything to us is established: the day however, on which of the prior Adam Ferrarius makes mention, from the occasion of St. Adam the Abbot, snatched Arturus in his Martyrology Franciscan, as that one's Natal: which it is enough to have indicated.