Sep 052009
![[Saint Petronius]](http://saints.sqpn.com/saintp96.jpg "jpg detail from 'Madonna with the Child and Saints' by Francesco del Cossa, 1474, tempera on canvas, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna")
Also known as
- Petronio of Bologna
- Petronio Vescovo
- Petronio the Bishop
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Son of a Praetorian Prefect in Gaul, and may have been a Roman official himself. Pilgrim to the Holy Lands and the ascetics in Palestine in his youth. Bishop of Bologna, Italy. Built the monastery of Saint Stephen in Bologna; it was modeled on the holy places of Jerusalem. A fictional version of his life was popular in the Middle Ages.
- c.445 of natural causes
- Bologna, Italy, archdiocese of
- Bologna, Italy, city of