Saint Antoninus of Piacenza [SEP] canonization status
Antoninus of Piacenza
Saint Antoninus of Piacenza (or Placentia) (died 303 AD) is a patron saint of Piacenza in Italy. He is venerated as a saint and martyr in the Roman Catholic Church, with a feast day of 30 September.
The saint was said to have been martyred at Piacenza or Travo, in the 303 AD Diocletianic Persecution. He appears in Victricius' "De Laude Sanctorum" of the same century, and the somewhat later "Martyrologium Hieronymianum". Sabinus of Piacenza established his sanctuary,
" Inspired by such a vivid figuration of Biblical truth, Antoninus indulged the classic tourists' act: "and there, unworthy as I was, I wrote the names of my parents".
Antoninus' descriptions of the chalice of onyx that was venerated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and of the Holy Lance in the Basilica of Mount Zion are early attestations of the "cultus" of these two relics.
Of the historical Piacenza pilgrim, F. Bechtel reported in "The Catholic Encyclopedia" (1910)."In manuscripts he