Evidius and Patronus of Besalú

Evidius and Patronus of Besalú are two martyrs venerated as saints at the Benedictine monastery of Sant Pere at Besalú in Catalonia, where their remains lay with those of Patronus, Concordius, Marinus of Besalú and Primus and Felician of Agen. They were venerated in the Catholic Church and, apart from the Martyrology, are still kept in the calendars of the Orthodox Church.

Nothing is known of their lives, not even when they lived. Antoni Vicenç Domènec says that their bodies, together with that of Marinus of Besalú, were venerated in the monastery, that their reliquaries stood on the high altar with lamps kept permanently lit, and that the feast of Evidius was kept there on 13 June with the proper office of a martyr. On the high altar, above the chest of relics, there was a carving with the martyr's palm and a book.

Probably, like other holy bodies gathered in the monastery (such as those of Primus and Felician of Agen), they were remains of venerated persons from other places and guarded in the monastery; but the loss of the relics, the archives and the monastery itself makes it impossible to find out to whom they belonged. In any case he was a bishop from before the tenth century, the century the monastery was founded. The disentailment of church property in the nineteenth century led to the abandonment of his cult and the disappearance of the relics. He appears as a probably real saint in the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists, though no more data can be given than those handed down by Domènec. Dropped from the Roman Martyrology for lack of data, he is kept in the calendars of the Orthodox Church, which took over the Catholic calendar from before the separation.