BELLINO, Saint. - From Padua, of the Bertaldo family. Already a priest in 1107, he was a canon and then archpriest of the Cathedral; exiled to Este with Bishop Sinibaldo (1110), he was able to return to Padua in 1115. He took part with his bishop in the Lateran Council of 1123; around 1125 or 1126 he was elected bishop of Padua. He held the episcopal see for more than twenty years: he was a strenuous defender of ecclesiastical rights and immunities and greatly beneficent toward his subjects. While traveling for pastoral ministry to Fratta Polesine di Rovigo (diocese of Adria), he was killed by a certain Tommaso Capivacca (26 Nov. 1147). Buried in the church of S. Giacomo di Fratta, he immediately received a martyr's cult. The reports concerning a possible canonization by Eugenius III in 1151 or by Eugenius IV in 1447 are not supported by reliable documents; in the diocese of Adria he is venerated as the primary patron of the diocese. His feast falls on 26 Nov.

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BIBL.: BBL. 1086; F. S. Dondi Dall'Orologio, Memorie sopra la vita di s. B., vescovo e martire, Padova 1808; Cappelletti, X, pp. 508-11; P. F. Kehr, Italia Pontificia, VII, Berlino 1923, pp. 139-60.

Carlo Castiglioni

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Bellino, Saint

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