He succeeded Bishop Eucherius (November 16 † 449), and died on September 11 before 494, the year in which his second successor Rusticius began his episcopate.
Later, in the seventh century, a baptistery dedicated to Saint John was constructed as an accessory building to the church.
[2] His contemporary, Sidonius Apollinaris, admired Patiens and said that, despite the austerity of his life, he made himself "all things to all men."
[3] During a famine, he arrived in Lyon with wheat, by the Rhone and the Saone rivers to feed the population.
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