[1] It is unclear how the relics of Fortunatus reached Rome from the saint's supposed place of death in the Swiss Alps.
[1] From Santa Maria in Via Lata, Fortunatus' relics were translated to Casei Gerola in 1765, as a gift to the church there from the Holy See.
[1] Casei Gerola, in the province of Pavia, was an important village of the diocese of Tortona, which had close ties to the papacy.
[1] His relics were kept in an urn; Fortunatus' skull was crushed, indicating the cause of death to be a fatal blow to the head.
[2] He was proclaimed patron saint of Pantelleria after he is believed to have aided the island through miraculous intervention during an earthquake in 1831 and a seaquake in 1891.