Suranus

Saint Suranus was abbot of a monastery at Sora near Caserta in Italy and was slain by the Lombards around 580.

When the Lombards began to ravage the peninsula, Suranus gave all the goods of the monastery to the refugees, even the herbs from his garden. When the barbarians arrived and found there was nothing left to plunder, they killed him on the spot. Saint Gregory the Great praises him emphatically, and the Roman Martyrology remembers the blessed abbot Suranus of the time of the Lombards.

He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 24 January (new style).