Today, January 29, is the memorial of Saint Aquilinus of Milan.
Aquilinus was born to a wealthy and noble family in Wurzburg, Germany. He took up Theology in Cologne and was ordained priest. The bishopric of Cologne was offered to him, but he rejected it. He preferred to preach from city to city.
He became a miracle-worker, curing people struck by cholera in Paris. Because of this miracle, he was again offered the bishopric, this time in Paris. He once again refused to become bishop. He went to Pavia, Italy and there he contradicted the heretics.
His fighting stance against heretics soon made him a target of these sects. Tradition states that Aquilinus was in Milan when he was stabbed to death, together with his friend Constantius, by a heretic. His body was thrown into a sewer, but porters found it and placed it in the Basilica of San Lorenzo.