Also known as
- Paulinus II
- 28 January
- formerly 11 January (pre-17th century)
- formerly 9 February (17th century)
- 2 March (in Cividale, Italy)
Profile
Raised on a farm, and broadly self educated, gaining a wide reputation for scholarship. Teacher. Invited courtier to Charlemagne begining in 774, he was named “royal master of grammar”. He served at court for over a decade and became a favorite of the emperor. Poet. Reluctant Patriarch of Aquileia in northern Italy in 787. He attended all the great councils convoked during his time, and well known as a defender of the faith against heretics. Fought the heresy of Adoptionism, and convoked a synod to combat several heresies that denied Christ’s Divine nature; two surviving works attributed to him combat this heresy. He dispatched and supported missionaries to pagan territories, and ordered them not to force conversions, or baptize those ignorant of the Faith or who thought it was some type of magic. Noted preacher in the area of Styria and Crinthia.
Born
- 11 January 804 of natural causes
- relics are under the altar of the crypt of the basilica of Cividale del Friuli, Italy
Additional Information
- Abbé Stéphane Ansart
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Online
- Catholic Online
- Catholic Online
- Catholic Encyclopedia, by Aluigi Cossio
- Heiligen 3s
- Katherine Rabenstein
- Kirken i Norge
- Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
- Roman Martyrology
- Santi e Beati
MLA Citation
- “Saint Paulinus of Aquileia“. Saints.SQPN.com. 28 January 2013. Web. 19 June 2013. <>