[2] He appears to have fled from Mauritania, North Africa to Gaul[3][4] to escape the Vandals, towards the end of the century.
[He] claims for Pomerius the further distinction of having bequeathed to us the oldest pastoral instruction that survives in the West.
There are, it is true, several translations of the de vita contemplativa, all of them now very old and none of them in English; but even the specialist finds it extremely difficult to locate one of these in our great libraries.
Prominent ecclesiastical writers of this era, including Chrodegang of Metz, Paulinus of Aquileia, Halitgar of Cambrai, and Jonas of Orléans, drew from Pomerius, although these writers often misattributed quotations from the De vita contemplativa to Prosper of Aquitaine.
Pomerius's work was also frequently utilized in the acta resulting from the Church councils held between 813 and 836.