Desiderius

Saint Desiderius, a venerable father, was a hermit in Italy, near Pistoia, at the end of the 7th century (in the view of some, the 8th). He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church, together with Saint Barontus, his companion, and remembered on 26 March in the Western calendar.

According to a life written in the 11th and 12th centuries, Barontus was the same as a Frankish nobleman of Berry, who lived as a monk with his son at Saint-⁠Pierre de Longoret. Desiderius is known only together with Barontus; our sources say nothing else about his life.