Nonnosus

Saint Nonnosus (Nonosius), born about 500 and died about 560, was prior of the monastery of San Silvestro on Monte Soratte, north of Rome, and later a monk at Suppentonia, near Civita Castellana. He was a contemporary of Saint Benedict of Nursia. His commemoration is on 2 September. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church; our sources mention no Orthodox veneration.

Alban Butler wrote that so little information has survived about Saint Nonnosus that he is not especially interesting in himself. His name does not appear in the older martyrologies. A deacon Nonnosus is mentioned in the traditions of Carinthia, in Austria, of the twelfth century. His veneration is strong in Bavaria, where his relics lie in the cathedral of Freising. The veneration of the saint on Monte Soratte dates from the 1650s and was established through the efforts of Andrea di San Bonaventura, a Cistercian monk. In 1661 a part of his relics was brought back to Monte Soratte, and the veneration of Saint Nonnosus spread in central Italy. It is believed that the traditions about two different persons were merged into a single life.

As attributes of Saint Nonnosus are reckoned an oil lamp or a hanging lamp, and rocks.