(BEFORE A.D. 390.)
[Roman Martyrology, and those of Ado, Notker, &c. Authority:--Mention
by S. Jerome in his Ecclesiastical Writers, c. 106, 107, 132.]
Very little is known of this Spanish bishop, except that he was the
author of some short works, of which one, named Cerbus, is lost. His
"Epistles against the Novatians," his "Call to Penitence," and "Book
on Baptism," addressed to catechumens, are extant. His son, Flavius
Dexter, probably born before Pacian received episcopal orders, was an
intimate friend of S. Jerome. Pacian died at an advanced old age in the
reign of Theodosius.