Sant'Appiano

Who they were

St. Appian, a monk and hermit, was born in the Italian province of Liguria in the eighth century and lived a devout life at the monastery of St. Pietro in cielo aureo at Pavia. His abbot sent him to Comacchio to supervise the salt works owned by the abbey. During the summer he devoted himself to the development of that industry, and during the winter lived as a recluse near by, fasting, praying, meditating to the edification of the faithful. Here he died lamented by the poor.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

A Benedictine Martyrology (1922) remembers him on 6 November.