Mantuanus of Milan

Saint Mantuan is honoured as Archbishop of Milan in the seventh century and is regarded as a saint by the Catholic Church. The sources we have give his name and years differently.

One source says he died in 671, and our Menaion data commemorates him on 31 October. The Greek source, however, speaks under the same entry of Antoninus of Milan, archbishop from 660 to 661. The two names cannot be resolved here.

Not much is known about his life. According to a tradition that survived at least until the nineteenth century, he belonged to the noble Milanese family of Fontana. It is said that he persuaded the Lombard king Aripert I, grandson of Queen Theodelinda, to accept the Catholic faith. At his death he was buried in the church of Saint Simplician.