Santo Spes

Machine-translated from the Italian article

Spes (... – Spoleto, beginning of the 5th century) was bishop of Spoleto, venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. He was bishop of Spoleto, as indicated by his epitaph, datable between the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 5th century, discovered in the church, now no longer extant, of the Holy Apostles near the city. The text reports that Spes died, after 32 years of episcopate, on 23 November of an unspecified year: (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. XI, 1901, no. 4967, p. 724) It is to Spes that the discovery of the relics of Saint Vitalis, martyr of Terzo la Pieve, a hamlet of Spoleto, is owed; he had them transferred to the church of the Holy Apostles, and for him he composed a metrical inscription.