Dathus

{{Short description|Italian saint and bishop}} {{Infobox saint | honorific_prefix = Saint |name= Dathus |birth_date= |death_date= 190 |feast_day= 3 July |venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church |image= |imagesize=150px |caption= |birth_place= |death_place= |titles= Bishop of Ravenna |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= Pre-congregation |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= Dove |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }} '''Dathus''' or '''Datus''' was Bishop of Ravenna during the late 2nd century. He was elected to succeed the previous bishop Probus I when miraculously, a dove appeared above his head.

According to Andreas Agnellus, his remains may have been kept in the Church of St. Probus in Classe, but this structure did not survive into Agnellus's day.<ref>{{Cite web |title=St. Dathus |url=https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=2829 |website=Catholic Online |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Agnellus of Ravenna |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt284wdr |title=The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna (Medieval Texts in Translation) |last2=Deliyannis |first2=Deborah Mauskopf |publisher=Catholic University of America Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8132-1358-3 |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=108 |language=en}}</ref>

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Category:Saints from Roman Italy Category:2nd-century Christian saints Category:190 deaths Category:2nd-century Italian bishops Category:2nd-century Romans Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Bishops of Ravenna Category:Roman Ravenna