Saint
Gerontius of Milan
Bishop of Milan
Bishop of Milan, reposed around 470.
Life
Saint Gerontius of Milan was archbishop of Milan from 462 until his repose on 5 May 465 according to Wikipedia; the Orthodox calendar gives approximately the year 470. He is commemorated on 5 May.
Almost nothing is known of his life and episcopate. He was a pupil of the previous bishop, Eusebius, who suggested him as his successor. According to the writings of Ennodius, the sixth-century bishop of Pavia, he was distinguished for generosity and charity in the hard years of reconstruction after the Hunnic invasion of 452, and he rebuilt many lesser churches destroyed by the Huns. He was buried in the city's basilica of Saint Simplician. A late tradition with no historical basis links him with the Milanese family of Bascapé.
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