Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IV, 1950 Saints & hagiography Saints

Datius, Saint

DAZIO, SANTO

Feast day: 14 January

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Also known as: Datius of Milan

DATIUS, 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 cope with the famine. Toward the end of 537 he went to Rome to ask for help against the Goths, and remained there until 544, when he departed for Constantinople. Having come to Sicily the following year to inform Pope Vigilius about the question of the so-called Three Chapters, he returned to the East together 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 entombed in the church of St. Victor. In the Martyrologium Romanum he is commemorated on 14 January.

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BIBL.: Acta SS. Ianuarii, II, ed. Paris 1865, pp. 249-53; F. Savio, Gli antichi vescovi d'Italia. La Lombardia, I: Milano, Florence 1913, pp. 224-33; Lanzoni, pp. 1023-25; Martyrologium Romanum, p. 21.

Agostino Amore

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 1249.

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Amore, Agostino. “Dazio, santo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 1249. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/dazio-santo.

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Amore, Agostino. “Dazio, santo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1249. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/dazio-santo.

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@incollection{ec4_dazio_santo,
  author    = {Amore, Agostino},
  title     = {Dazio, santo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {1249},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/dazio-santo}
}

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