JOHN OF LODI, Blessed. - Camaldolese, b. at Lodi around 1040, d. at Gubbio on 7 September 1105. He embraced the eremitical life at Fonte Avellana in 1064 under the guidance of St. Peter Damian, whose companion he was on his frequent journeys, after his priestly ordination, which took place in 1065. He was the Saint's first biographer and inherited his ascetic spirit.

Having returned to Fonte Avellana after the death of St. Peter Damian, he was elected prior there, an office he held until his elevation to the episcopate of Gubbio, to which Pope Paschal II appointed him in 1104. But, by then in his eighties, he lived only one more year. He is well known for his austerity of life, and in the Benedictine Martyrology he is venerated as blessed.

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BIBL.: Vita in Acta SS. Septembris, III, Paris 1868, pp. 161-170; M. Sarti, De episcopis Eugubinis, Pesaro 1755, p. 61; P. Cenci, Vita di s. G. di L., vescovo di Gubbio, Città di Castello 1906; A. Zimmermann, Kalendarium Benedictinum, III, Metten 1937, pp. 25 and 27.

Ambrogio Mancone

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John of Lodi, Blessed

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