(BEGINNING OF 5TH CENTURY.)
[Commemorated as a semi-double in the Church of Piacenza.
Authority:--The Offices of the Breviary of Piacenza for this day.]
S. Gelasius was a little boy, child of pious and wealthy parents in
Placentia, the modern Piacenza, in Northern Italy. His brother, older
than himself, was S. Olympius, who is commemorated on October 12th.
The children slept in the same room. One evening Gelasius heard his
brother praying, and angels singing, "Suffer little children to come
unto Me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." The child died early,
in the white innocence of his baptismal robe, and was laid by S.
Maurus, bishop of Placentia, in the Church of S. Savin, outside the
walls. It was afterwards translated to the new Church of S. Savin
within the city, in 1481, by the Bishop Fabricius, together with the
bodies of SS. Peregrine and Victor.