:''"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 A ...

, who is mentioned in his letters.'' Saint Nebridius ( ca, Nebridi, es, Nebridio) was bishop of Egara (Terrassa) (516–527) and then bishop of Barcelona from 540 to around 547 AD. His feast day falls on 9 February. A native of

Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in 2020. Girona is the capit ...

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

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. They were

Saint Justus Justus (died on 10 November between 627 and 631) was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arriv ...

, 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 Elpidius is a Roman cognomen. It was the name of several bishops and saints: *Elpidius, bishop of Huesca (c.522-546) *Elpidius, bishop of Tarazona *Elpidius, bishop of Comana (Cappadocia) *Saint Elpidius, bishop of Lyon *Saint Elpidius the ...

; 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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