:''"Nebridius" was also the name of a close friend of

Augustine of Hippo Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Af ...

, who is mentioned in his letters.'' Saint Nebridius ( ca, Nebridi, es, Nebridio) was bishop of

Egara Terrassa (, es, Tarrasa) is a city in the east central region of Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona, ''comarca'' of Vallès Occidental, of which it is the co-capital along with Sabadell. The name ''Terrassa'' derives from Latin '' ...

(Terrassa) (516–527) and then

bishop of Barcelona The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona is a Latin rite Catholic metropolitan archbishopric in northeastern Spain's Catalonia region. The cathedral archiepiscopal see is a Minor basilica: Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de la Santa Creu i ...

from 540 to around 547 AD. His

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falls on 9 February. A native of

Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan language, Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter River, Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in ...

, Nebridius, according to tradition, had three brothers who were also

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. They were Saint Justus, bishop of

Urgell Modern-day Urgell (), also known as ''Baix Urgell'' (''baix'' meaning "lower", by contrast with Alt Urgell "Higher Urgell"), is a ''comarca'' (county) in Catalonia, Spain, forming only a borderland portion of the region historically known as Ur ...

; Saint Elpidius; and Saint Justinian. He was very learned and wrote interpretations of the

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. He also wrote a work called ''In cantica canticorum'' about the church

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. He was a

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.Sociedad de literatos, ''La vuelta por España: Viaje histórico, geográfico, científico...'' (Barcelona: P. Riera, 1874), p. 925.

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Catalan Roman Catholic saints Medieval Spanish saints Bishops of Barcelona 6th-century bishops in the Visigothic Kingdom 547 deaths People from Terrassa Spanish Benedictines 6th-century Christian saints Year of birth unknown 6th-century Latin writers {{saint-stub