Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Paschasius, deacon of Rome
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Paschasius (3), deacon of Rome, called by Gregory the Great in his
Dialogues, bk. iv. c. 40, "a man of great sanctity." He was a firm supporter
of the antipope Laurentius to his death, and his adhesion was a great source of
strength to the opponents of Symmachus (cf. Baronius, ann. 498). There is extant
a work of his in two books, de Sancto Spiritu (Patr. Lat. lxii. 9–40),
which Gregory (u.s.) calls "libri rectissimi ac luculenti." The date of
his death was c. 512.
[G.W.D.]