Innocent of Verona

Innocent of Verona was the fourteenth bishop of Verona, from 429 to 445, after Petronius. He was the first bishop buried in the church of Santo Stefano in Verona, beside Saint Gaudentius. The Veronese martyrology and the historian Ferdinando Ughelli praise his pastoral virtues and purity of life. The martyrology text says of him that he stood out for innocence, justice and exceptional virtues, and that in learning he was inferior to none of the bishops before him.

In 1543, when the altar of the church of Santo Stefano was dismantled, two bodies were found from which, according to tradition, a sweet fragrance came. He is commemorated on 14 March, in the Western calendar (new style). A saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.