Peter of Pavia

Peter of Pavia (Peter I) was bishop of Pavia, capital of the Lombard kingdom, in the time of King Liutprand, his nephew, and reposed in 735. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church and, according to the source, commemorated on 7 May.

He was a Lombard. According to the Venerable Bede, the body of Saint Augustine of Hippo had been moved to Cagliari in Sardinia by the Catholic bishops expelled from Africa by the Arian king of the Vandals, Huneric. Bede tells that the remains were later redeemed out of the hands of the Saracens, at a cost of sixty thousand gold crowns, by Peter. After being taken to Genoa, they were deposited in the basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro at Pavia, around 720.

The sources at hand say little else about his life.