BASSIANUS (BASSANO), Saint.** - He is the first historically documented bishop of Lodi (c. 374 - c. 409). As such he took part in 381 in the Council of Aquileia and in 389 in the Milanese provincial council, which condemned the heretic Jovinian. He fought the Arian heresy. From a letter of St. Ambrose to St. Felix, bishop of Como, it is inferred that both went to Lodi in 380 to consecrate the church that B. had erected in honor of the apostles (cf. PL 16, 889). In 397, he assisted in Milan at the passing of his friend St. Ambrose. B. died on January 19, probably in 409, and was buried in the church of the Holy Apostles. After the city of Lodi was destroyed by the Milanese and rebuilt by Barbarossa (new Lodi), his body was transferred with solemnity, on November 4, 1163, from the old to the new cathedral by the antipope Victor IV. He is venerated as patron of the diocese.

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Carlo Castiglioni

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