Amasius of Teano

Saint Amasius was the second bishop of Teano in Italy and died around 356. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and in the old tradition of the West and commemorated on 23 January.

According to his life, Amasius was a Greek and was forced into exile, fleeing the persecution of the Arian emperor Constantius. Pope Julius I invited him to preach in Campania. At Sora he healed a boy with gout and worked other miracles, but was then expelled by the Arian party. In 346 Julius appointed him bishop of Teano in the province of Caserta, in succession to Saint Paris, and consecrated him bishop in the basilica of the Holy Apostles in Rome. The people of Sora, to repair the offense done to him, raised a church in his honor. The Roman Martyrology mentions him at Teano in Campania, around 356. His veneration is still alive today in several dioceses of central Italy.