Paulinus of Nola (?)

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Paulinus of Nola (353 ? - 431)

Paulinus was born in Bordeaux around 353 into a very wealthy Christian senatorial family. After studying under Ausonius, he embarked on a brilliant career: consul in Rome (378) then proconsul in Campania (379 or 381). He was educated in the Christian faith by Ambrose of Milan, then returned to Aquitaine, where he married a pious Spaniard, Tharasia (385); he was baptised shortly afterwards by Delphinus of Bordeaux. Through the influence of his wife, he distributed his immense wealth to the poor and led a life of poverty and chastity with her in Spain. Ordained a priest against his better wishes in Barcelona (394), he left for Italy and settled in Nola, in Campania, drawn by his devotion to the martyr Saint Felix, and there he continued his monastic life, even when he was chosen as bishop in 409. He enjoyed close friendships, and corresponded, with the greatest Christian figures of the time (Jerome, Augustine, Sulpicius Severus, Pammachius). He is the author of Poems and Letters. He died in 431.

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