St. Cassian of Imola

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Died: tied to a post, tortured and stabbed to death with iron styles, the device used as a pencil on wax tablets, at Imola, Italy c.304, buried in the catacombs in Rome, Italy, a sepulchre was built over his place of burial later in the 4th century, in the 5th century, a basilica was built in place of the sepulchre, relics transferred to the crypt of the cathedral in Imola in 1175, relics x in a silver and copper reliquary in Imola c.1405, from 1577 to 1914, the relics were annually processed through Imola, some relics (4 pieces of the post to which he was tied) transferred to Bressanone, Italy in 1684

Patronage: parish clerks, secretaries, stenographers, students, teachers, Mexico City, Mexico, Las Galletas, Tenerife, Spain, dioceses, Bolzano-Bressanone, Italy, Brixen, Italy, locations in Italy, Bibbiena, Comacchio, Imola, Laterina, Macherio, San Casciano dei Bagni, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, San Cassiano a Vico, San Cassiano di Controne, San Cassiano di Moriano, Trecate.

Also known as Cassiano

Schoolmaster at Imola, Italy who taught hand-writing, and sometimes talked about Christianity. During one of the imperial persecutions he was ordered to sacrifice to pagan gods; he refused. He was turned over to his pagan students who were ordered to execute him; they did. Martyr.