He is honoured as a Saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is 5 May.

[2] According to the writings of Ennodius, bishop of Pavia in early 6th-century, Gerontius was distinguished for his generosity and charity during the difficult years of reconstruction after the devastating invasion of the Huns occurred in 452.

Gerontius during his episcopate went on rebuilding many secondary churches destroyed by the Huns.

[2] Gerontius died on 5 May 465 and his remains were interred in the city's Basilica of St.

[1] A late tradition, with no historical basis, associates Gerontius with the Milanese family of Bascapé.