Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. V, 1950 Saints & hagiography Saints

Felix and Fortunatus, Saints, Martyrs

FELICE E FORTUNATO, SANTI, MARTIRI

By Pio Paschini

Feast day: 11 June

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Saint Fortunatus, Martyr redirects here.

Also known as: Italian: San Felice e San Fortunato, San Fortunato; Latin: Felix et Fortunatus

FELIX AND FORTUNATUS, Saints, Martyrs. - Commemorated today in the Roman Martyrology on June 11, they were venerated solemnly in Aquileia on August 14, in accordance with the Hieronymian Martyrology; in the Milanese liturgy, however, on May 14 together with St. Victor. The acts concerning them are legendary. Venantius Fortunatus, recalling the most illustrious martyrs of certain cities, mentions Felix for Vicenza and Fortunatus for Aquileia (Carminum, VIII, 3, vv. 165-66); in both these cities there stood a cemetery basilica dedicated to the two martyrs together, and their cult spread elsewhere as well, in Venetia and beyond, together with the relics.

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BIBL.: Acta SS. Iunii, II, Antwerp 1698, pp. 460-63; anon., Storia dei ss. F. e F., Venice 1825; P. Paschini, La Chiesa aquileiese ed il periodo delle origini, Udine 1909, p. 54 ff.; Lanzoni, pp. 872, 917-18; Martyr. Hieronymianum, pp. 215, 443; G. Lorenzoni, La basilica dei SS. F. e F. in Vicenza (Vicenza 1938).

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By Pio Paschini

How we know recovered from an earlier OCR reading

Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), col. 1138.

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Paschini, Pio. “Felice e Fortunato, santi, martiri.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1138. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/felice-e-fortunato-santi-martiri.

MLA

Paschini, Pio. “Felice e Fortunato, santi, martiri.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1138. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/felice-e-fortunato-santi-martiri.

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  author    = {Paschini, Pio},
  title     = {Felice e Fortunato, santi, martiri},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {1138},
  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/felice-e-fortunato-santi-martiri}
}

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