Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
Suranus | |
Residence: | Umbria, Italy |
Canonized Date: | Pre-congregation |
Feast Day: | 24 January |
Saint Suranus (died) was an abbot in Umbria, Italy who was martyred by Lombards.His feast day is 24 January.
Suranus was abbot of a monastery at Sora near Caserta, Italy. He was martyred by marauding Lombards around 580 AD when they found his monastery was empty.The Roman Martyrology under the Twenty-fourth Day of January just notes, "Also, blessed Suranus, abbot, who lived in the time of the Lombards."
The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921),
The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints under January 24,