Exuperantius
Acta Sanctorum, June 22
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ON SAINT EXUPERANTIUS

BISHOP OF COMO IN ALPINE ITALY.

From memorials supplied by Tatti the Chronographer of Como.

ABOUT 512.

[Commentary]

Exuperantius, Bishop of Como, in Italy (St.)

G. H.

First Aloysius Tatti, now several times
about the Saints of Como by us
praised, this fourth Bishop
indicates, [Eulogy from the Martyrology of Como.] and citing the Breviary of the Church
of New Como such a eulogy
to this 22nd of June brings forth: "On the tenth day before the Kalends
of July at New Como, in the church of St. Abundius,
the feast of St. Exuperantius, Bishop of Como and
Confessor: who deriving his birth from Greece, and
to New Como coming, on account of the exceptional of his life
sanctity, to St. Consul deceased succeeded.
Of his Church the rule in the highest of times
iniquity and of the barbarians' incursion having obtained, it
a strenuous athlete, of the faith and Catholic religion
a column, against the of Arian impiety
asserters he defended. This when for some years
with admirable prudence and erudition he had governed,
to the reward of his labors summoned
into heaven he flew." These things there Tatti: things similar to which
has the same in book 7 of the Annals of Como.
Ferdinando Ughelli too, in volume 7 of Italia Sacra,
in the Bishops of Como number 6; Ferrari in the Catalogue
of the Saints of Italy and in the general Catalogue,
and several others, by Tatti in the Notes to his Martyrology
indicated, and elsewhere by us related.
One thing he disputes about the day of death: and the others'
opinions rejected, that to himself before the rest to smile
he says, [The time of death,] and that more certain and to the truth consonant
he reckons, which him to have died affirms
in the year 512: from which time he rested in the church
of St. Abundius up to the year 1587, when
his body was found. Then in the year 1590
were translated with a solemn procession of six Holy Bishops
the bodies, about which some we have deduced
on the third day of June, on which St. Adelbertus Bishop
of Como is worshipped: whose sacred body, just as
also St. Exuperantius's was translated. [the finding of the body and translation.] That hither to look
seems, that Felicianus then Bishop, about
this solemnity treating, with these words uses: "That
to pass over by no means we can, which divinely
to Quintellius, a man noble of the Odescalchi
family, was granted. He indeed when many
already days with a grave fever oppressed had lain;
and with singular of devotion zeal toward the Saints,
whose bodies were to be translated, kindled,
with firm faith hoped, former health himself by their
merits and intercession to be about to receive;
provided that the procession, to which he had been invited,
and into the number of the Nobles enrolled,
by whom the canopies to be carried it behooved, to be present
he could; by his wife's exhortation also inflamed;
as he was of infirm and sick health, [The fever taken away by the touch of the case.]
he went to the temple. And when the greatness of soul
and confidence of mind the body's infirmity
far surpassed; one of the staffs of the canopy
of St. Exuperantius, which to him had fallen, to carry he began:
and when a little he had advanced, having touched devotedly
the case of that very Saint, immediately health and strength
he recovered. And when at the same time he had resolved,
if offspring male to him should be born, of that
Saint the name by whose benefit and aid restored
he had been, on him himself to be about to impose for memory's
and honor's sake; not many after months to him
his wife a son bore, who from the sacred Font Exuperantius
was called: of which success, as
just now we have related, true information through
Lord Tobias our Vicar general
to be taken we take care." These things Felicianus Bishop
of Como.
