ON ST. LUPICINUS,
BISHOP OF VERONA IN ITALY.
HISTORICAL SYLLOGE.
On the cult, relics, office from Augustin Valier, Bishop of Verona.
Lupicinus, Bishop of Verona in Italy (S.)
G. H.
That at Verona under a double rite this XXII of May S. Lupicinus the Bishop is celebrated, indicates the Table of the Saints of Verona, The cult, in the year MDXVIII composed; and a compendium of his Life which in Augustin Valier the Bishop of Verona, in the Ancient monuments of the Saints of the Church of Verona, page 39 of this kind is had. Lupicinus Bishop of Verona, it is handed down in old manuscript books, to have been a man most good and most holy. The man of God died, the body, leaving an incredible longing for himself to the whole people of Verona, on the eleventh Kalends of June; and in the basilica of S. Zeno his body now rests, not far from his tower on that side, which is to the south; where in his honor and of the Saints Lucillus, who succeeded him in the Episcopate, the altar, and Crescentianus the Martyr an altar is erected. At the consecration of the church of S. Mary, surnamed the Ancient, in the year of salvation MCLXXXV, and likewise of the altar of S. James in the church of the holy Apostles, The Relics. were placed in it Relics also of this holy Bishop. To these is to be added from the Index of the Relics, which in the Churches of Verona are kept, that some Relics of S. Lupicinus are in the church of S. Salvator at Fregnanum, and in the double of nuns, namely S. Anthony and S. John. That some Relics also of S. Lupicinus are at Bologna in the church of S. Stephen, hands down Masini in Bononia perlustrata; but at XXXI of May: on which day S. Lupicinus is inscribed in today's Roman Martyrology, where by Baronius are cited the Tables of the Church of Verona and Augustin Valier page 9 and 39. But in the said places accurately is expressed the day 22 of May and the eleventh Kalends of May. But this follow Galesinius, Ferrarius in the general Catalogue and the other of the Saints of Italy, Onuphrius Panvinius book 4 of the Antiquities of Verona chapter 7, Ferdinand Ughelli on the Bishops of Verona, John Francis Tintus book 5 of the Nobility of Verona chapter 9, Nicolas Brautius in the Poetic Martyrology, and others.
[2] The other two whose sacred bodies with S. Zeno in the same altar are kept, are S. Crescentianus the Martyr, The images who is venerated September V; and S. Lucillus the Bishop, to whom sacred is the day October XXXI. For the pall of the altar, says the said Augustin Valier, are depicted three images, of which the middle a palm in the hand holding, is of one Martyr: the other two are images of Bishops with pastoral miters, gloves and books in the right hand: under which images on the vessel of that pall these verses are depicted.
Here of Crescentianus the Martyr the bones rest; And with Lucillus thou, Lupicinus, together. the epitaph Consorts of the heavenly fatherland and of the sepulcher, Verona each Prelate leads as his own.
On the side of that altar to the North toward the altar greater is a little old tablet of parchment, to the wall hung, in which these are the words. The bodies of SS. Crescentianus the Martyr, Lucillus and Lupicinus Confessors Bishops of Verona. Above that altar is another little tablet of parchment, where of the aforesaid the commemoration is written. Antiphon. In thy circuit, The antiphon, Lord, is a light, which shall never fail, where thou hast established most luminous mansions, there rest the souls of the Saints. ℣. Let the just exult in the sight of God. ℞. And let them delight in gladness. Prayer. O God who us, in so great perils set, by human fragility knowest not able to subsist, The prayer. give us through the intercession of the holy Confessors thy and Pontiffs Lucillus and Lupicinus, and also the most glorious Martyr Crescentianus, whose bodies here in the present tomb rest, the salvation of mind and of body, that those things which for our sins we suffer, thou helping we may overcome, through Christ our Lord.
[3] At what time this man and the others sat, and in what order to one another they succeeded, The time of the See. asserts Panvinius that by the fatal sloth of our elders it has been oppressed by the darkness of antiquity, and therefore the bare names in alphabetical order he supplies.