ON SAINT HILARIUS
BISHOP OF PAVIA IN ITALY.
YEAR 376
CommentaryHilarius, Bishop of Pavia in Italy (S.)
G. H.
Ferdinandus Ughelli in volume one of Sacred Italy proposes the Bishops of Pavia: among whom he recenses XVII S. Hilarius, & these things about him reports: S. Hilarius to the same See was elected in the year 358, & died 376 on the day XVI May, whose Relics are honorably preserved in the Church of S. Michael the Greater. He against the Arians celebrated a most salutary Synod. Of him mention is made only by Bossius in his diptych: but no other writer, nor even the Roman Martyrology indeed. Thus Ughelli. Afterwards Ioannes Baptista de Gasparis published the Breviary of the Holy Bishops of the Ticinensian Church, which he himself in the year 1662 to us at Pavia present gave. He in the Index subjoins the Catalogue of the Bishops of the Ticinensian Church about whom the divine Office is not celebrated, & there writes these things: S. Hilarius Bishop XVIII. XVI May from the year 358 to the year 376. Body in S. Michael's. Nor more about him hitherto could we obtain.