ADALGISO, saint. — Bishop of Novara. The diptychs of this church assign him nineteen years of episcopate, which must have extended from 830 or 831 to 849 or 850, and call him “gem of priests.” The surviving documents of the period indeed attest that he was highly beneficent toward his church and that he displayed notable pastoral activity.
His feast is celebrated on 7 October; his body, placed in the church of S. Gaudenzio outside the Walls, destroyed in 1553, was later transferred to the present Cathedral, consecrated in 1590.
BIBL.: Carolus Ep. Novariensis (C. Bascapè), Novaria seu de Ecclesia Novariensi libri duo, Novara 1612, pp. 378–87; Acta SS. Octobris, III, Antwerp 1770, pp. 945–47; F. Savio, Gli antichi vescovi d'Italia dalle origini al 1300. Il Piemonte, Turin 1899, pp. 240–55.