Patrick of Avernia

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Some^[which?] martyrologies mention against 16 March a Patrick, bishop of Avernia. Avernia was the Latin name for the Auvergne, but no such Patrick is known there.^{[citation needed]} The reference should have been to Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland.^{[original research?]}

The mistake is believed^{[by whom?]} to have been made by a copyist who wrote "Avernia" for "Hivernia" or "Hibernia", and once the second saint got into the martyrologies his feast was moved to another day to avoid confusion.^{[citation needed]}

• Lives of the Saints, S. Baring-Gould, Hodges, London, 1879, p 304