Saint Petronius
![[Saint Petronius]](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
- Memorial
- 4 October
- Profile
- 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.
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.
- Died
- c.445 of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
- Bologna, Italy
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