Blasius
Acta Sanctorum, June 22
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ON SAINT BLASIUS

BISHOP OF VERONA IN ITALY.

Notice of the cult from Bishop Valerius and others.

[Commentary]

Blasius, Bishop of Verona in Italy (St.)

G. H.

Augustinus Valerius, in virtue and
doctrine outstanding, ordained Bishop
of Verona in the year 1565; [Eulogy,]
and afterward created Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church,
and deceased in the year 1606, left a remarkable book
on his Veronese See's holy Bishops: where among
others about St. Blasius, one of them, this published
eulogy. "Blasius Bishop of Verona, with Episcopal
virtues excelled, and in relieving the want of the needy marvelously excelled: inasmuch
as he to no one, as far as in him was, his help imploring
ever was lacking. In him with the highest integrity,
exceptional doctrine and a holy certain
gentleness was. He died, the excellent Bishop, on the tenth
day before the Kalends of July: his body was laid in
the same sepulchre, in which had been laid St.
Alexander Bishop of Verona, under an altar of
both names consecrated, in the crypt of the basilica
of St. Stephen." These things Valerius. About St. Alexander
we treated on the fourth of this month June, [the altar, and the body;] to
which day more about each we have related from the said
Valerius, and indeed from an old tablet of the sacrarium
we said, in the Confession of that very Church, in
the altar of St. Blasius, the body of St. Blasius Bishop of Verona
to be preserved; and there, both on the table
and on the body of the altar to be contained these words: "Here
of the holy Bishops of Verona, Blasius
and Alexander, the bodies antiquity venerates."
Besides on the pall of the altar is an image painted with
these letters: "St. Blasius Bishop of Verona." Finally
among the Relics of the Church of St. Stephen is reckoned the body
of St. Blasius Bishop of Verona.

[2] Onofrio Panvinio, in book 4 of the Antiquities
of Verona, chapter 7, places in alphabetical order
with St. Alexander also St. Blasius among the Bishops
of Verona from a Calendar, of uncertain time
and Order; only adding, [his memory in others.] that he died on the 22nd
of June, and was buried at St. Stephen's. The same
commemorates Philip Ferrari, both in the New
topography to the Roman Martyrology, and
in the general Catalogue, and in another of the Saints of Italy;
where he adds a eulogy, but from Valerius taken:
which also has Ughelli in the Bishops
of Verona, where after St. Alexander he sets him
the 22nd Bishop, and so according to his reckoning
it could seem that he flourished about the end of the fourth century.

[3] Bracci, Bishop of Sarsina, with this
verse honors him:
"An example of life, zeal, and chaste, Verona
of her Pontiff the morals, which it may imitate, it has."
On the preceding day, the 21st of June, Galesini in his Martyrology
celebrates the memory of St. Blasius, Bishop
and Confessor of Verona: and cites in his Notes
the Tables of the Saints of the Church of Verona,
and a Synodal constitution. But easily
an error of one day could creep in upon a man even
more accurate than Galesini was.
