Agrippin (died 233 ) - Bishop of Naples , saint (remembrance day - November 9 ).
Saint Agrippin, according to legend, was the sixth bishop of Naples . Little is known about him. So, in the Roman Martyrology there is a comment by the famous hagiographer Hippolytus Deleuet regarding the bishopric of St. Agrippin:
- Agrippinus procul dubio primis Neapolitanae ecclesiae episcopis annumerandus est; quibus annis sederit ignoratur.
Honor
It is believed that St. Agrippin was as revered as Saint Iannuar (San Gennaro). [one]
The foundation of the in Naples is connected with the , the largest Christian catacomb in southern Italy. The foundation structure may be located at the union of two ancient burials. In one of them, which belongs to the 2nd century, the remains of St. Agrippin rest, in the other, which belongs to the 4th century, the remains of St. Iannuaria.
In 1744, Cardinal Giuseppe Spinelli , Archbishop of Naples, investigated the remains of St. Agrippina. He found a marble vase on which it was written: "Unknown relics, presumably the bodies of St. Agrippin."
The relics of the saint rest under the high altar of the cathedral in Naples, along with the relics of St. Eutychius and Proclus , former comrades of St. Iannuaria.
created the canvas oil of St. Iannuarius and Agrippin banishing Saracens .