Saint
Anastasius
Bishop of Brescia
A Western hierarch in Italy who reposed around 610.
Life
Saint Anastasius was bishop of the city of Brescia in Lombardy, northern Italy, and struggled strongly against the Arian heretics. He fell asleep in peace in the year 610.
No other details of his life are preserved in the sources consulted. He is a saint of the undivided Church, from the West, commemorated on 20 May in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).
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