Fortunatus of Todi

Saint Fortunatus of Todi was bishop of Todi in Umbria in the 6th century. According to tradition he came to Italy from Poitiers as a hermit. Because of his miracles and his power to cast out demons, the clergy and the people urged him in 528 to accept the bishopric, left vacant after the Goths killed his predecessor Callistus. One source places his death in 537, another in 565.

He is said to have saved the city from being sacked by the Ostrogoths. He brought many to the faith and tore down a temple of the god Pan, using the materials for a church. Pope Gregory the Great writes of him in his Dialogues: he calls him a man of great virtue who cared diligently for the sick, and recounts questioning a poor old man of Todi about the bishop's miracles.

His relics rest in the church of San Fortunato in Todi, whose first building dates from the 7th century. He is the patron of the city. The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 14 October, He is a saint of the undivided Church.