:''"Terentian" can refer to anything pertaining to the works of

Terence Publius Terentius Afer (; – ), better known in English as Terence (), was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six Roman comedy, comedies based on Greek comedy, Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. A ...

.'' Terentian(us) () (died 118) was Bishop of Todi who was killed during the reign of

Hadrian Hadrian ( ; ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, close to modern Seville in Spain, an Italic peoples, Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his branch of the Aelia gens, Aelia '' ...

(117–138).Lanzoni, p. 425, attributes him to the 4th century, not the 2nd.

Biography

His legend states that before he was killed, his tongue was cut out. Then he was

beheaded Decapitation is the total separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is invariably fatal to humans and all vertebrate animals, since it deprives the brain of oxygenated blood by way of severing through the jugular vein and common c ...

. His

feast day The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint. The word "feast" in this context does n ...

is September 1.

External links

Terentian

San Terenziano

Notes and references

Bibliography

*''Acta Sanctorum'': *Lanzoni, Francesco (1927).
Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604)
'. Faenza: F. Lega, pp. 425. * Bishops in Umbria 118 deaths 2nd-century Italian bishops 2nd-century Christian martyrs Year of birth unknown {{Italy-saint-stub