Titian of Oderzo

Saint Titian of Oderzo was bishop of the city of Oderzo (Opitergium), in the province of Treviso in Italy, in the seventh century. Some sources say he reposed in 632, others around 650, after shepherding his flock for thirty years.

He was born into a noble family of Eraclea in the Veneto and served as deacon and priest to Bishop Florian. He laboured much for the poor, and when Florian left the see to go as a missionary, Titian was chosen as his successor. He tended the diocese with zeal and opposed Arianism. He was buried in the cathedral of Oderzo, where, as the faithful tell, many miracles took place at his tomb.

His veneration is attested from the eighth century, in documents of 743 and 794, and his name is found in the martyrology of Usuard of 875 and in the Roman Martyrology of 1584. According to a tradition, after Oderzo was destroyed by the Lombards in 665, his relics were taken to Ceneda: they were placed on a wagon drawn by oxen, and the oxen stopped at Ceneda. Today they rest in the crypt of the cathedral of Ceneda, in a bronze urn. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 16 January (new style).