Monas (bishop of Milan)

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Monas
Cathedral of Milan
ChurchCatholic Church
In officeend 3rd – early 4th century
PredecessorCalimerius
SuccessorMirocles
Sainthood
Feast day12 October
Venerated inCatholic Church

Monas (

Bishop of Milan from the end 3rd-century to early 4th-century. He is honoured as a Saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is on October 12.[1]

Life

Almost nothing is known about the life and the episcopate of Monas. He was elected as bishop of Milan in some year at the end of the 3rd-century (tentatively in 283), and his episcopate lasted until some time before the year 313, when Mirocles was the bishop of Milan.[2]

Monas died on 25 March (the exact year was not recorded) and his corpse was buried near the church of Saint

Cathedral of Milan where they are today.[3]

A late tradition, with no historical basis, associates Monas with the Milan's noble family of the Borri. To Monas is attributed the foundation of the parish church of Corbetta. Monas is also venerated in a chapel, renovated in the 17th century by the Borri family, in the Santuario della Beata Vergine dei Miracoli of Corbetta.[4]

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  4. ^ Il Santuario di Corbetta, a cura di Maria Luisa Gatti Perer, testi di Giuseppe Moreno Vazzoler, Giuliana Algeri, Andrea Spiriti, Istituto per la Storia dell'Arte Lombarda, 1995.