Maiorinus

Saint Maiorinus was the first bishop of Acqui in Piedmont in the fourth century and died at Acqui Terme on 27 June, between 364 and 369. Little is known about him. The reconstruction made in the seventeenth century by Bishop Gregorio Pedroca, from an old list of bishops of the eleventh century, shows that his episcopate lasted thirty-⁠four years and eight months, that he died on 27 June, and that he was buried at Acqui, in the church of Saint Peter or in the cemetery nearby. Tradition counts him among the bishops appointed by Pope Sylvester I and sent to shepherd various churches after the edict of Constantine. He is said to have been among the bishops at the synod of Antioch in 324, but it is more probable that he attended the council of Milan of 355, among the three hundred western bishops.

A relic of his is kept in the cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta at Acqui. It remained for years with the relics of other saints in the abbey of Santa Giustina at Sezzadio, until 1811, when the future bishop of Vigevano, Giovanni Francesco Toppia, to protect it from the Napoleonic army, put it in a reliquary and moved it to the cathedral of Acqui. He is venerated in the Catholic Church.