Saint Faustinus (died about 15 February 381 A.D.) was
bishop of Brescia
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brescia ( la, Dioecesis Brixiensis) is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Milan, in Lombardy (Northwestern Italy).Saint Ursicinus. His
feast day
The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint. The word "feast" in this context d ...
in the Roman Catholic Church is 15 February: 16 February in the Orthodox Church.
Tradition claims that he was a descendant of
Saints Faustinus and Jovita
Saints Jovita and Faustinus were said to be Christian martyrs under Hadrian. Their traditional date of death is 120. They are patron saints of Brescia. Traditional vita
Tradition states that they were members of a noble family of Brescia in Lomba ...
, and that he compiled the ''Acts'' of these two martyrs. His relics were discovered in 1101.
Faustinus appeared in the old Roman Martyrology for February 15: "At Brescia, n the year 350 the holy Confessor Faustinus, Bishop of that see." He is no longer listed in the 2004 revision.Watkins, Basil. ''The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary'' India, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, np, This may be because of some doubt that the person existed, or because their cult was never approved.
Works
*De Trinitate sive de Fide contra Arianos. Ad Gallam Placidiam
*In Codicem Canonum et Constitutorum Eccleasiae Romanae Recepta
*Vita Operaque de Faustino
* (with presbyter Marcellinus) ''Adversus Damasum Libellus Precum Ad Imperatores Valentinianum, Theodosium et Arcadium''