Beatus of Trier

Saint Beatus of Trier, a venerable father, was a priest of Trier and a missionary in the 7th century (or the 6th). Together with his brother, Saint Bantus, he preached in the west of present-⁠day Germany, in the Hunsrück and Hochwald regions. He is remembered on 25 July.

Like his brother, he belonged to a group of hermits around Bishop Magnerich of Trier (died after 586), devoted to mission; the 12th-⁠century manuscript Gesta Treverorum names these hermits as Wulfilaich, Ingobert, Disibod, Wendelin, Carilef, Bantus and Beatus. Little is known with certainty about Beatus. Eugen Ewig assumes that he and the other hermits around Magnerich were of Trier-⁠Aquitanian origin, and J. Marx calls Beatus a confessor of Trier.