Abundius

Infobox Saint
name=Saint Abundius
birth_date=fifth century
death_date=469cite web | last = Jones | first = Terry | title = Abundius of Como | work = Patron Saints Index | url=http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintaa2.htm | accessdate = 2007-03-04]
feast_day=2 April
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birth_place=Thessalonica, Greece
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titles=Hermit, Bishop, and Confessor
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attributes=depicted in art as a bishop with a stag; sometimes he is shown raising a dead child to lifecite web | last =Rabenstein | first =Katherine | title =Abundius of Como, Hermit (RM) | work =Saints O' the Day for April 2 | date =April 1999 | url =http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0402.htm#abon | accessdate =2007-03-04]
patronage= The city and the diocese of Como
major_shrine= Basilica di Sant'Abbondio, Como
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Saint Abundius (also Abondius, Abundias, or Abbondio; early fifth century – 469) was a Bishop of Como, northern Italy.

He was born at Thessalonica. Around 448 Abundius became the fourth Bishop of Como, succeeding Amantius. [The death of his predecessor Saint Amanzio, a native of Canterbury in England, is traditionally set at 448. See the article Sant'Amanzio di Como it on the Italian Wikipedia] He was present at the Council of Constantinople in 450, and took an active part against the Eutychian heresy at Chalcedon (451), where he was the representative of Pope Leo the Great. In 452 he also took part in the Council of Milan, convened to refute the same heresy. Abundius is one of those to whom the authorship of the Te Deum is occasionally attributed.

The Romanesque church of Sant'Abbondio at Como, consecrated in 1095 by Pope Urban II, is dedicated to him, and his relics are conserved beneath its principal altar. [See the article on the Basilica di Sant'Abbondio it on the Italian Wikipedia]

References

"This article incorporates text from the 1913 "Catholic Encyclopedia" article " [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01075b.htm Abundius] " by Thomas Walsh, a publication now in the public domain."

External links

*it icon [http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/34400 Sant' Abbondio]