Basil of Luni

Saint Basil of Luni is regarded, according to tradition, as the first bishop of the city of Luni, in Italy, in the fourth century. He is sometimes called the second bishop of that see. He is commemorated on 28 October.

Nothing is known of his life, but his existence is not in doubt. In the seventh century, as inscriptions show, the local church bore the name Ecclesia Basiliana, that is, the Church of Basil. The cathedral of Sarzana was also, at first, a church dedicated to Saint Basil.

In the local calendar, according to a thirteenth-⁠century codex preserved in the chapter archive of Sarzana, his commemoration was kept on 28 October. Today his name is not found in the Roman Martyrology, so his veneration has remained a local one.