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Magnus of Oderzo

Italian priest

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Feast: 6 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
580
Died
670
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

In the Veneto, commemoration of Saint Magnus, bishop, who is said to have left the city of Oderzo with a large part of his flock because of the Lombard invasion, founding the new city of Heraclea, and to have built eight churches in Venice.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 6 October as a bishop said to have led his flock from Oderzo to found Heraclea.

Connected on this site

  • Magnus of Trani Saint
    “The 19th-century scholar Johann Stadler identified 35 saints and blessed with the name of Magnus, including the abbot Magnus of Füssen, the bishops Magnus of Avignon (also commemorated on August 19), Magnus of Oderzo, Magnus of Milan, Magnus of Sens, and the martyr Magnus of Orkneys.” — Wikipedia
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