Torpes of Pisa

Torpes of Pisa (Latin: Torpetius, Tropesius; French: Saint TORPES, Saint Tropez, Italian: Torpete, Torpes, Torpé ) ( † 66 in San Piero a Grado, today part of Pisa ) was the legend earlier after a Christian martyr and is venerated as a saint. He is named after the southern French town of Saint- Tropez.

Legend

The Legend of Torpes leads the foundation of the Christian community of Pisa directly back to the apostle Peter. This was stranded on his journey from Antioch to Rome at the mouth of the Arno. There, in Pisa, should Torpes, whose full name is Gaius Silvius Torpetius have envisaged that the have been working as a civil servant of the Emperor Nero. When the Emperor during a ceremony for the goddess Diana explained, this had created the universe, Torpes should have known publicly his belief in the Christian God. From an Antony, who had lived as a hermit in the mountains between Pisa and Lucca, you will Torpes have been baptized. Before returning to Rome Nero had ordered this to torture Torpes and execute what Torpes, unwilling to revoke, had been beheaded in nearby San Piero a Grado. Nero's advisor Evellius thereof to have been so impressed that he had also converted to Christianity and took the martyrdom.

Relics

The body of the saint said to have been then exposed with a dog and a rooster on a rotten bark, which drove down the Arno River in the Tyrrhenian Sea. There are different versions about his continued detention. He is in Spain, without the dog or the cock had touched him, washed ashore at the port of " Portus sine " and discovered by a " Senator " Celerina, have been honorably buried and honored with the construction of a church. The Provencal tradition assumes that Torpes had been washed up during the later Saint- Tropez. Here is his cult detectable since 1056. The tradition of Torpes ' hometown of Pisa, in turn, reported to the head of the martyr was rescued by angels and the bishop of the city ( where bishops only about three centuries later, however, are detectable ) have been handed over. Translation Report from the 13th century According to one then the relic was the San Rossore Monastery ( founded in 1085 ) had been kept. This was dissolved in 1272 by Archbishop Federico Visconti and the monks joined the Humiliatenorden, whereupon the Archbishop renovate the church of this order and let dedicate the Holy Torpes.

Cult

The 29th of April has been designated in 1284 as the anniversary of the saint and start from Saint- Tropez from a year on this date a pilgrimage to Pisa. Torpes is patron of the cities of Pisa, Saint- Tropez and Frejus. He is called by nurses with dwindling milk and navigators. The city of Pisa wrote his work to the end of the plague of 1633.