Felician of Foligno

Saint

Felician of Foligno
Saint; Felician of Foligno
	Roman Catholic Church,; Eastern Orthodox Church
Major shrine	Foligno Cathedral
Feast	24 January; formerly 20 October
Attributes	an old bishop with a hook and tongs; an old bishop with holes bored through his feet and hands
Patronage	Foligno

Felician(us) of Foligno (Italian: San Feliciano di Foligno) (c. 160 – c. 250) is the patron saint of Foligno.

Biography

According to

Pope Eleuterus and evangelized in Foligno, Spello, Bevagna, Assisi, Perugia, Norcia, Plestia, Trevi, and Spoleto.^[1]

He was later

Roman gods during the persecutions of Decius

. He was tortured and scourged, and died outside Foligno while being conveyed to Rome for his execution.

Saint Messalina

Saint Messalina was a consecrated virgin who had received the religious veil from Felician. She cared for him during his imprisonment, and for this she was also arrested and clubbed to death when she refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.^[3]

Veneration

A church was built over his grave at Foligno. His

translated to Minden in Germany; Felician was thus erroneously considered a bishop of that German city (and he had a separate feast day of October 20), an error that entered the Roman Martyrology.^[2] Some of his relics were later returned to Foligno in 1673–4.^[2]

Foligno Cathedral preserves a statue of the saint, of silver and bronze, made by the sculptor Giovanni Battista Maini.