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Saint for the
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 SAINT
PAULINUS OF NOLA
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Catholic Online
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Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus was born to a wealthy
Roman family at
Bordeaux,
in Gaul. His father was the praetorian prefect of Gaul, who
made certain that his son received a sound education. Paulinus
studied rhetoric and poetry, and learned from the famed poet
Ausonius. He subsequently became a well-known lawyer. He
became the prefect of
Rome,
married a Spanish noble lady, Therasia, and led a
luxury-filled life. Following the death of his son a week
after his birth in 390, Paulinus retreated from the world and
came to be baptized a Christian by St. Delphinus in Aquitaine.
With Therasia, he gave away their property and vast fortune to
the poor and to the Church, and they pursued a life of deep
austerity and mortifications. About 393, he was forcibly
ordained a priest by the bishop of Barcelona. Soon after, he
moved to an estate near the tomb of St. Nola near Naples,
Italy. There, he and his wife practiced rigorous asceticism
and helped to establish a community of monks. To the
consternation of his other relatives, he sold all of their
estates in
Gaul and gave the money to the poor. He also helped to build a
church at Fondi, a basilica near the tomb of St. Felix, a
hospital for travelers, and an aqueduct. Many of the poor and
sick, he brought into his own house, and he lived as a hermit
with several of his friends. In 409, he was elected bishop
of Nola, serving in this office with great distinction until
his death. He was a friend and correspondent of virtually all
of the leading figures of his era, including Sts. Augustine,
Jerome, Ambrose, Martin of Tours, and Pope Anastasius I.
Paulinus was also a gifted poet, earning the distinction of
being one of the foremost Christian Latin poets of the
Patristic period, an honor he shares with Prudentius. Paulinus
retained much of the style of the old classical poets, and
composed most of the poems in honor of the feast of St. Felix.
He is the author of a body of extant works including fifty one
letters, thirty two poems, and several prose pieces.
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