Athanasius of Naples

Saint Athanasius of Naples was bishop of Naples in Italy, a merciful shepherd driven from his see, and he reposed in the year 872. After he had ruled for twenty years, he began to suffer from the exactions of his relatives, in whose hands the civil authority of Naples lay. He was imprisoned and then exiled, and he reposed at Veroli. He was buried at Monte Cassino, from where his body was transferred to Naples.

He is commemorated on 15 July as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.