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|honorific_prefix= Saint
|name= Tegulus
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|death_date= 3rd century
|feast_day= October 25
|venerated_in= [[Roman Catholic Church]]
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|imagesize= 250px
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|death_place= near Montaldo
|titles= Martyr
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|attributes= depicted as a soldier bearing a banner with the Mauritian Cross and the palm of martyrdom; spade
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'''Tegulus''' ({{langx|it|San Tegulo, Tegolo}}) is venerated as a member of the legendary [[Theban Legion]], whose members were led by [[Saint Maurice|Maurice]] in the 3rd century.<ref name="Santiebeati">{{cite web|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92414|author=Pomi, Damiano|title= San Tegulo (Tegolo)  |date=June 16, 2005|publisher=Santi e Beati|accessdate=December 30, 2008}}</ref>  The center of Tegulus' cult is at [[Ivrea]].<ref name="Santiebeati"/>
Veneration of Tegulus actually arose at the end of the 10th century, when during the episcopate of [[Warmondus]] (Varmondo), the Tegulus's [[relics]] were discovered in a [[sepulcher]] situated a short distance away from Ivrea.<ref name="Santiebeati"/>  The relics were [[translation (relics)|translated]] to the [[cathedral of Ivrea]] within the city walls, and placed in the chapel of San Giacomo.<ref name="Santiebeati"/>  The relics were later translated, with those of [[Saint Bessus|Bessus]], to the chapel of Santissimo Sacramento.<ref name="Santiebeati"/>
According to local tradition, Tegulus survived the [[Decimation (Roman army)|decimation]] of his legion but was eventually [[decapitation|beheaded]] on the road to [[Montaldo Dora]], at the spot later occupied by the chapel of Santa Croce, which was built in the 14th century.<ref name="Santiebeati"/>
However, nothing certain was known of him, though he may have been a local Christian martyred for his faith during the last imperial persecutions;<ref name="Santiebeati"/> his cult was linked with that of the Theban Legion to lend antiquity to a local saint about whom nothing was really known.<ref name="Santiebeati2">{{cite web|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92046|author=Pomi, Damiano|title= San Magno|date=July 16, 2004|publisher=Santi e Beati|accessdate=December 28, 2008}}</ref>  Damiano Pomi theorizes that the relics may have been the remains of a soldier that were mistaken for those of a Christian martyr.<ref name="Santiebeati"/>  The name Tegulus, as Pomi also theorizes, may in fact not have been his name at all, but a reference to the building material commonly used for Roman graves: the ''tegula'' or tile.<ref name="Santiebeati"/>
== References ==
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==External links==
*{{in lang|it}} [http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92414 San Tegulo (Tegolo)]
[[Category:3rd-century Christian martyrs]]
[[Category:Year of birth unknown]]