Pammachius [SEP] canonization status
Pammachius
Pammachius (died 409 AD) was a Roman senator who is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches.
Biography.
Pammachius was born to a noble Roman family. In youth he frequented the schools of rhetoric with St. Jerome, and in 385 he married Paulina, second daughter of St. Paula.
He was probably among the "viri genere optimi religione præclari", who in 390 denounced Jovinian to Pope St. Siricius. When he attacked St. Jerome's book against Jovinian for prudential
In 401 Pammachius was thanked by St. Augustine for a letter he wrote to the people of Numidia, where he owned property, exhorting them to abandon the Donatist schism. Many of St. Jerome's commentaries on Scripture were dedicated to Pammachius.
After his wife's death Pammachius built in conjunction with St. Fabiola a hospice at Porto, at the mouth of the Tiber opposite Ostia, for poor strangers.
The site has been excavated, and the excavations have disclosed the plan and the arrangement of this only building of its kind