Veneration
After his death, an inquiry into his manner of life was ordered by Gregory IX. He was described at the inquiry by Richard, bishop of Trivento, as a "God-fearing man, modest and chaste, given up day and night to watching and prayer, clad only in rough garments of wool, living in a tiny cell… obeying always the sound of the bell when it called him to office."
His feast day in the Roman Martyrology is January 14.
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“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”
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