FAUSTINUS and GIOVITAS, saints, martyrs. — The information concerning them is scant and uncertain. They are certainly commemorated in the German Martyrology on 16 February. A church in honour of FAUSTINUS alone is mentioned at Brescia by St Gregory the Great (Dialogues, IV, 52; PL 77, 413), beside which, in 841, Bishop Ramperto built a monastery.
The Passio, however, composed at the beginning of the 9th century, is highly legendary (BHL, 2836-38).
Bibl.: Acta SS. Februarii, II, Paris 1864, pp. 80-82; F. Savio, La legende des s. Faustin et Jovite, in Anal. Boll., 13 (1896), pp. 5-72, 113-50, 377-99; Lanzoni, p. 937 sq.; Martyr. Hieronymianum, p. 99. Agostino Amore