Saint Paulinus of York
- Memorial
- 10 October
- Profile
- The Venerable Bede describes him as a "tall man with a slight stoop, who had black hair, a thin face and a narrow, aquiline nose, his presence being venerable and awe-inspiring".
Monk at Saint Andrew's monastery, Rome, Italy.
Missionary to the Anglo-Saxons in 601, sent by Pope Saint Gregory the Great.
Worked with Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Saint Justus of Canterbury, and Saint Mellitus of Canterbury.
Evanglized in Kent for 24 years.
Bishop of York in 625.
First missionary to Northumbria, converting thousands including King Saint Edwin in 627.
When the pagan Mercians defeated Edwin's forces in 633, Paulinus retreated to Kent with the remaining royal family.
Bishop of Rochester.
- Born
- 584 in Rome, Italy
- Died
- 10 October 644 at Rochester, Kent, England of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
- Rochester, England
- Representation
- archbishop baptizing King Saint Edwin
- Additional Information
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Google Directory
Christian Biographies, by James E Keifer
Columbia Encyclopedia
Britannia Biographies
Catholic Online
Early British Kingdoms, by David Nash Ford
Catholic Encyclopedia, by Edwin Burton
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
New Catholic Dictionary
- Print References
- The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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- Readings
- This is how the present life of man on Earth, King, appears to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us.
You are sitting feasting with your ealdormen and thegns in winter time.
The fire is burning on the hearth in the middle of the hall and all inside is warm, while outside the wintry storms of rain and snow are raging - and a sparrow flies swiftly through the hall.
It enters in at one door and quickly flies out through the other.
For the few moments it is inside, the storm and wintry tempest cannot touch it, but after the briefest moment of calm, it flits from your sight, out of the wintry storm and into it again.
So this life of man appears but for a moment.
What follows or, indeed, what went before, we know not at all.
- Saint Paulinus of York, speaking in Northumbria
