Saint Fazzio

However, he told himself that it was not enough to escape his enemies, but that he had to, according to the commandment of our divine Master, reconcile with them. He therefore resolved to return to his native city. It was with great sorrow that the Cremonese let him leave; they used every means to dissuade him from his plan; they could not succeed. Fazzio left; but, upon arriving in Verona, he saw that the malice of his enemies had already preceded him. The authorities received an indictment directed against him; false witnesses were suborned who, for money, testified against him; and barely arrived, he was thrown into prison. Everyone was convinced of his innocence; however, he remained deprived of his liberty until Providence brought about a very particular event for his deliverance.

The Veronese were unexpectedly attacked by those of Mantua; a nd as t Mantoue Italian diocese where the cult of Ozanne was authorized. hey were not in a state to resist their enemies, they implored the help of their neighbors, among others the Cremonese, who welcomed their request, but by stipulating, as an express condition of the aid they were sending them, the release of Fazzio, who had been unjustly arrested and held in prison; the authorities of Verona acquiesced all the more willingly as until then no one had been found who could have convicted the virtuous prisoner of the crime of which he was accused. Fazzio was therefore released with permission to settle in Verona or elsewhere. He went to settle in Verona.

This pious and fervent man hastened to build a chapel in that city, and founded a religious order to which he gave the name of O deo du Satu O deo du Satur-E-pret Religious order founded by Fazzio for the care of the sick and prisoners. r-E-pret. The goal was to care for the sick, to visit prisoners, to relieve and console the poor, and to practice other works of charity.

The Bishop o f Cremona, a great L'évêque de Crémone Ecclesiastical superior who appointed Fazzio as visitor general of the convents. admirer of the irreproachable conduct and wisdom of the virtuous Fazzio, appointed him general visitor of the convents of his diocese, a position he fulfilled with the greatest exactitude until the time of his death, which occurred in 1272, in the eighty-second year of his age. He possessed the gift of miracles; they were also performed after his death through his intercession. He is still held in great veneration in Cremona today. Although he has not been solemnly numbered among the Saints, he is nevertheless found in the hagiological catalogue of Italy; and the Holy S ee has appr Saint-Siège Papal authority that approved the cult of Aemilian. oved his office for the churches of Cremona and Verona.

See the B ollandists; Bollandistes A society of Jesuit scholars who publish the Acta Sanctorum. January 18. ; Philipp. Ferrarius, in gen. Cet. Cremona in Gallia Cicalpina; Merula, in sanctuaria Cremonensi; Benoit Piltovin, Legend of the Saints of God, and of the patrons honored in Austria, Hungary and Salzburg; 1922, p. 18 et seq.