Bernolfo of Asti

Bernolfo of Asti is honored as a bishop of Asti in Piedmont, killed by the Saracens at Priola, near Mondovì, in the 10th century. He is remembered on 24 March.

Ughelli's catalogue lists him among the bishops of Asti, as a martyr killed by the Saracens. He is honored at Mondovì, which belonged to the diocese of Asti until the 15th century. Tradition tells that he was killed in one of the Saracen raids in south-⁠western Piedmont. Some scholars place the event around 904, when the bishop of Asti Eilulf, to whom the lands of the deposed counts had been entrusted, was killed at Priola. The name Eilulf is said to have turned over time into Bernolfo, since in the list of the bishops of Asti no bishop of that name appears, and there are no documents about it.

His body was buried on the bank of the river Ellero and later moved to the cathedral of Mondovì. In documents before the 15th century, Bernolfo is never linked with an episcopal office. In 1514, at the consecration of the cathedral, Bishop Lorenzo Fieschi placed the relics of Saints Donatus and Bernolfo under the high altar.

He is a local saint of the West; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known. The source is uncertain about his identity.