Claim: Dalmatius of Pavia was simply a local preacher of northern Italy, was venerated at what was called Pedona but there are no records of where he was born.
Evidence: His biography states that Dalmatius was born at Forum Germarzorum (present-day San Damiano Macra) and became a churchman and evangelizer in Pedona. His biography was composed in the 7th or 8th centuries, its author perhaps a Lombard monk of the monastery of Pedona who was drawing from oral tradition.