Adam
Acta Sanctorum, May 16
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ON SAINT ADAM
ABBOT OF FERMO IN PICENO.

[Commentary]

Adam, 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.
