Saint Donatus
![[Saint Donatus]](saintd1t.jpg "15kb jpg detail from 'Madonna with Saints John the Baptist and Donatus', by Andrea del Verrocchio, 1475-1483, Duomo, Pistoia; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Memorial
- 7 August
- Profile
- Educated in Rome, Italy.
During the persecution of Diocletian, he fled from Rome to Arezzo, Italy.
There his obvious sanctity and education led to his election as the second bishop of Arezzo in 346.
Due to the number of saints named Donatus, there is some confusion about his death; he may have been martyred in Rome, but he may have died of natural causes in Arezzo.
- Born
- Nicomedia (part of modern Turkey)
- Died
- 362;
interred in the cathedral of Arezzo, Italy;
some relics at Ostia, Italy
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
- Arezzo, Italy
- Representation
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bishop with a sword and dragon
beheaded with sword
stabbed with a dagger
freeing a poisoned well from a dragon
kneeling at an altar with an angel whispering to him, a chalice and dragon at his feet
on horseback, raising his crozier at a dragon
- Additional Information
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For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabeinstein
New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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