Baculus of Sorrento

Holy Hierarch Baculus of Sorrento is venerated as bishop of Sorrento in southern Italy. The Life of Saint Antoninus, Abbot of Sorrento, composed in the 9th century or later, mentions some patron saints of the city: the bishops Renatus, Athanasius and Baculus. It describes the saints from a painting then hanging in the cathedral of Sorrento.

The time of his episcopate is uncertain. Ughelli, from a manuscript later than the 12th century, thought it was in the 7th century; the Bollandists thought around 660; and Lanzoni points out that his Life gives no chronological indication, so he might have lived between the 4th and 5th centuries. The reports about his life are few and not very credible. Custom says that he died on 27 August, perhaps in 660, the day on which Sorrento keeps his commemoration. His body was buried in the walls of the city, then moved to the temple of San Felice. He is counted among the patron saints of Naples. He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.