Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
SECONDO (SECONDINO) of TRENTO. - He wrote a « succinctam de Langobardorum gestis historiolam » Paolo Diacono (v.) made use of.
In May 599 Pope Gregorio I sent « Secundino servo Dei incluso » a reply to certain questions which he had put to him concerning the question of the Three Chapters and other matters. In another letter to Queen Teodolinda he calls him « Secun-
(from G. Stein - G. Junkes, La Specola Vaticana, Città del Vaticano III, pl. between pp. 16-17)
SECCHI, ANGELO – Portrait.
SECOVIA, DIOCESE of – View of the Benedictine Abbey of Seckau with the Hochalm (elevation 1,863 m). (photograph by P. Ledermann)Paul reports that Adaloald, son of the queen and of Agilulf, «susceptus de fonte est a Secundo servo Christi de Tridento» in the church of S. Giovanni Battista at Monza. S. must therefore have played an important part in this event, which broke a dynastic tradition among the Arian Lombards; King Authari had in fact forbidden his subjects to receive Catholic Baptism (s. Gregorio I, Registri, I, no. 17). S. died in 612.
BIBL.: s. Gregorio I, Registr. epist., XIV, nos. 12 and 147 in MGH, Ep., I (1887); Paolo Diacono, Hist. Langob., III, 29; IV, 27; IV, 40 in MGH, Scrip. rerum Langob., ed. G. Waitz (1878); A. Zieger, Storia del Trentino e dell'Alto Adige, Trento 1926, p. 35 ff. Pio Paschini
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“SECONDO (SECONDINO) DI TRENTO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), p. 149. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/secondo-secondino-di-trento.
