ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 12th of July WELCOME! SAINT PATERNIANUS, BISHOP OF BOLOGNA Saint Paternianus, bishop and confessor of Bologna, whom the Roman Martyrology * lists on this day , was the first successor of Saint Petronius (about the year 450). He held the episcopate for about twenty years, and governed the church of Bologna with great piety. His body is buried in the Church of Saint Felix. There is a big question mark on this whole narrative, though, as the one single fact that can be stated with absolute certainty is his veneration in Bologna. Everything else is so vague and unproven that the Bollandists * suggest that he perhaps might be the same person as Saint Paternianus , but then again, the timing does not quite fit. Paternianus , the bishop of Fano, lived a little later. In any case, Piazza* (II. 36) states that relics of this saint are also venerated at Saint Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome (III. 302). (Information from S...