Terentius of Imola

Saint Terentius of Imola, a venerable father, was a deacon and hermit, venerated as a saint in the Western Church and remembered on 30 July in the Western calendar. The time in which he lived is uncertain: the 6th century or the 10th or 11th.

He was certainly born at Forum Cornelii, today Imola. He spent his childhood near the cathedral, where he was educated and ordained deacon. He then moved to Faenza and served the sick at the Santa Croce hospital. Finally he withdrew as a hermit to the wood of San Pietro in Laguna, five kilometers north of Faenza, where he lived until his death. He is said to have worked many miraculous healings, beginning with that of a blind man of Imola.

His relics were first kept in the church of Celletta, near the place where he died, and were later moved to the cathedral of Faenza, where they remain in a 15th-⁠century ark. The church next to the cathedral bears his name.