Constantius of Perugia

Constantius of Perugia ( † about 170? With Foligno ) was a Christian martyr and saint. According to legend, he was the first bishop of Perugia.

There are four versions of the Passio of Constantius. Accordingly, he had been captured under Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius with some companions. They had scourged them, and then thrown into a furnace without them by a sufferer had happened. Constantius you have then brought into a dungeon, where he had converted his guards, who had released him then. He had then found refuge with a Christian named Anastasius, but had been taken prisoner with him. In prisons in Assisi and Spello they had been tortured and finally beheaded at Foligno.

The authenticity of martyrdom is not secured, the Bishops of Perugia are just over 300 years later detectable. Nevertheless applies Constantius, who said to have become bishop at age 30, as city saint of Perugia. Commemoration of the Holy is the 29th of January. His body was brought from Foligno to Perugia, where a church dedicated to him was that in 1527 destroyed. In 1825 the relics were transferred to the present church of Saint Costanzo. Constantius is often together with Herculanus of Perugia, also patron of the city, represented, however, who lived in the 6th century.