DAZIO, Saint. — He succeeded Magnus in the episcopal see of Milan around 530. In 535, a letter from Cassiodorus authorized him to take provisions from the state granaries to address the famine. Toward the end of 537, he went to Rome to seek aid against the Goths and remained there until 544, when he departed for Constantinople. The following year, he went to Sicily to inform Pope Vigilius about the issue of the so-called Three Chapters, and then returned to the East with the Pontiff, whom he assisted and comforted during the famous controversy. He died after February 552, and his body was transferred to Milan and interred in the church of St. Victor. In the Roman Martyrology, he is commemorated on January 14.
BIBL.: Acta SS. Januari, II, ed. Paris 1865, pp. 249-53; F. Savio, Gli antichi vescovi d'Italia. La Lombardia, I; Milan, Florence 1913, pp. 224-33; Lanzoni, pp. 1023-25; Martyrologium Romanum, p. 21.