Juventinus

Saint Juventinus, hierarch, was bishop of Tadinum in Umbria in the fourth century. He was archdeacon of Bishop Facundinus and is always remembered beside him, both in liturgical prayers and in the historical sources, which also show him as his successor in the see of Tadinum, a common thing for archdeacons at the time. The documents and legends describe him as a most faithful and zealous collaborator of Facundinus, who carried on the pastoral mission among the people in the manner of his father and teacher.

His name, together with those of Facundinus, Peregrinus and the Roman martyr Felicity, was carved in the sixth century on a sarcophagus of the third century, now kept in the cathedral of Rimini. He is also depicted in a fifteenth-⁠century polyptych in the city museum of Rocca Flea at Gualdo Tadino. Facundinus is commemorated on 28 August, and Juventinus on 2 September (new style). Their relics were placed together in the various translations; since 1907 they have been separated, and those of Juventinus lie beneath the altar of the chapel of Saint Anthony in the cathedral of Gualdo Tadino. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, as a saint of the undivided Church.