Alexius of Rome - References To St. Alexius

References To St. Alexius

• Saint Alexis Parish and School, located in Wexford, Pennsylvania, is named for St Alexius.
• Stefano Landi wrote an opera about him (1632).
• Camilla de Rossi wrote an oratorio about him (1710).
• Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a secular cantata about him.
• Alexander Radishchev, in his Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow (1790), refers to the story of St Alexis as sung by a blind soldier begging in Klin, near Moscow.
• Mikhail Kuzmin wrote a play ("Komediia o Aleksee cheloveke bozh'em" - comedy about Alexey, God's man) about the life of St. Alexis.

St Alexius is also the Patron Saint of the religious institute known as the Alexians.

The tale of St Alexius has parallels with that of The Prodigal Son, as told in the biblical Book of Luke. As it appears in Legenda aurea (later retold in the Gesta Romanorum it is almost identical with a tale told of the Tathagata Buddha in the famous Lotus Sutra (ch.IV).