The Venerable Patermuthius and Copres

Life

Although bearing the same names, these were different persons from the former. This Patermuthius was at first a leader of robbers, but after a miraculous vision he was converted to the true faith and became a monk. Namely, he had climbed upon the roof of a certain God-pleasing woman in order to enter her house from the roof and plunder it. But sleep fell upon him and in his sleep he saw Someone who warned him to do evil no more and to repent. Not only was he baptized, but he also became a monk. Both he and Copres were great wonderworkers. By the grace of God they healed people of every affliction and illness, converted sinners to the right path, and prophesied. A certain sinner, lying on his deathbed, besought Patermuthius to extend his life so that he might repent. After prayer, the saint told him that God was extending his life for three more years. The sinner repented, and exactly three years later he died. They reposed in the Lord at the end of the fourth century, in deep old age.