Eugippius

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Eugippius was a disciple and the biographer of Saint Severinus of Noricum. After the latter's death in 492, he took the remains to Naples and founded a monastery on the site of a 1st century Roman villa, the Castellum Lucullanum (on the site of the later Castel dell'Ovo). The character of Severinus -- wears black, rides into frontier town with mysterious past, exercises religious authority and defends the locals against bandits and worse -- seems to be the basis for the title character in Clint Eastwood's film Pale Rider. While at Naples, Eugippius compiled a 1000-page anthology of the works of St. Augustine and produced other scholarly works of high quality.