21 March 2018

Lentorama 2018: Second String Saints

Day 33: Saint Placidus

Another case of mistaken (or combined) identity. This Placidus, along with 30 others, were martyred. Could have been pirates, could have been the emperor Diocletian. Definitely in Sicily. Maybe?

Anyway, jump ahead a few hundred years and a writer confuses this Placidus with another Placidus who was a follower of St. Benedict. Who, to be honest, doesn't have much of a history other than his connection to Benedict. And both men also apparently had connections to Messina. So the confusion is understandable, I guess.

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