Saint Cassian of Imola

Memorial

• 13 August

Profile

Schoolmaster at Imola, Italy who taught writing. During one of the imperial persecutions he was ordered to sacrifice to pagan gods; he refused. He was turned over to his pagan students who stabbed him to death with their iron styles, the device used as a pencil on wax tablets.

Died

• tortured and stabbed to death at Imola, Italy in the 4th century
• relics at Imola, Italy

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• Brixen, Italy
• Comacchio, Italy
• Imola, Italy
• Mexico City, Mexico
• students
• teachers

Representation

• man being stabbed by children
• paper
• pen
• writing instruments

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Kirken i Norge
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Cassian of Imola”. Saints.SQPN.com. 1 May 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-cassian-of-imola/>