Lucanus of Sabiona

[2] During a famine he allowed the consumption in his bishopric during the forty days' fast of Lent of milk, butter and cheese if they could be obtained.

Stopping overnight at an inn in Spoleto, Lucanus discovered that the landlord's wife was bedridden with dropsy, and cured her by praying at her bedside.

When he arrived in Rome for his audience he wanted to take off his cloak, which was wet from the rain, but found nowhere to hang it, so threw it over a ray of sunshine, which supported it.

[4] On his return, however, Lucanus was driven from Säben by his enemies and took refuge in the valley of Agordo in the modern Italian province of Belluno.

At the beginning of the 16th century an account of his life was compiled by the public notary of Belluno, Peter Paul von Diolaitis, although he did not give his sources.

Carl Pfaundler wrote in his book (published in 1843) Heiliger Tyroler-Ehrenglanz oder Lebensgeschichten — heiliger, seliger, gottseliger, frommer und ausgezeichneter Tyroler concerning the veneration of Lucanus to the following effect: In Brixen up to the early 17th century little or nothing was known of Lucanus: the old lists of bishops and other liturgical books of the region made no mention of him.

[6] San Lugano (in Truden) in the South Tyrol is named after him, and the parish church of Sankt Lukan is dedicated to him.