Paterius of Brescia

Holy Hierarch Paterius of Brescia was a monk, disciple and friend of Saint Gregory the Great, for whom he worked as a notary. He became Bishop of Brescia in Lombardy and was a prolific writer. His only surviving work, the "Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti", is an anthology of Gregory's biblical commentaries arranged in the order of the passages of Scripture, and survives in more than a hundred and twenty manuscripts. He reposed in the year 606. He is venerated as a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 21 February (new calendar).