Ursicinus of Ravenna
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Saint Ursicinus of Ravenna ((Italian) Sant' Ursicino) (d. ca. 67) is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church. He was said to be a physician of Ravenna. His legend is connected with that of Saint Vitalis, who is said to have encouraged the wavering Ursicinus after the physician was sentenced to death for his faith.
He should not be confused with Bishop Ursicinus of Ravenna (6th century), who ordered the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe to be built.
Umberto Eco's hero Baudolino mentions the sufferings of a martyr named Saint Ursicinus as a form of consolation to the leprous Deacon he encounters in the fantastical Far East: "…and I invented other saints and other atrocities, such as Saint Ursicinus, impaled from the anus to the mouth, Saint Sarapion, flayed, Saint Mopsuestius, his four limbs bound to four horses, crazed and then quartered, Saint Dracontius, forced to swallow boiling pitch..."
[edit] Notes
- ↑ Umberto Eco, Baudolino (New York: Harcourt, 2002), 407.
[edit] External links
- Saints of June 19: Ursicinus
- (Italian) Sant' Ursicino
