Lupicinus
Acta Sanctorum, May 22
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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.
