According to the historiography, the first bishop in Voghenza appeared in 330, just 17 years after the Costantie edict.
Saint Maurelio was the last Voghenza bishop at the diocese until the year 624 at which time the diocese moved to the growing Ferrara county.
In the Voghenza church you can see the cover of bishop Mauricino sarcophagus (mid. V century) and under the high altar you will find a sarcophagus with symbols of the first Christianity containing the remains of Saint Leo, the miracle worker from Montefeltro sealed by great sculpture Giacomo Zilocchi (1862-1943) representing the life-size figure of the Saint. We don’t know how and when the Saint’s remains and the sarcophagus arrived to Voghenza, but they have definitely been here since much earlier than February 14th 1016 on which day the German emperor Heinrich II, according to the tradition, left his remains.
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