Saint Ursus of Ravenna

Also known as

• Orso of Ravenna
• Ours of Ravenna

Memorial

• 13 April

Profile

Born to the Sicilian nobility. Convert to Christianity. His father violently opposed the conversion, and Ursus fled to Ravenna, Italy. There he so impressed the locals with his holiness that he became bishop of Ravenna for 20 years, reviving the celebration of the feasts of the saints, a custom that had fallen away.

Died

• 396 of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against faintness
• against kidney disease

Additional Information

• Biographisch-Bibliographischen Kirchenlexikons
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Ursus of Ravenna”. Saints.SQPN.com. 12 April 2012. Web. 19 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-ursus-of-ravenna/>