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tion to the Roman citizens. Having married a Spanilh 
lady, named Therafia, with whom he obtained a very 
large fortune, he took his leave of public affairs, and in¬ 
dulged his inclination for feeing foreign countries, vifit- 
ing almoft all the weftern provinces of the Roman 
empire. In the courfe of his travels he formed an inti¬ 
macy with St. Martin of Tours, St. Ambrofe of Milan, 
and other eminent ecclefiaftical characters ; his conver- 
fation with whom appears to have produced fuch ftrong 
religious impreflions upon his mind, that he determined 
to be baptifed. His wife, likewife, who, it feems, had 
before fubmitted to the fame rite, contributed not a lit¬ 
tle to confirm that refolution. Accordingly, he received 
the facrament of baptifm from Delphinus, bilhop of 
Bourdeaux, in the year 391. Afterwards, he w : ent into 
Spain, and took up his refidence at Barcelona; where he 
and his wife, having loft their only child, and being 
without any profpett of other iffue, f'pent their time 
in devout contemplation and afcetic exercifes, applying 
the greatefl part of their property to benevolent and cha¬ 
ritable ufes. 
To divert Paulinus from this change of life, and to 
recall him again to the purfuit of fecular concerns, Au- 
foniusand his other friends had recourfe in vain both to 
perfuaiion and raillery. At Barcelona fo high was the 
veneration which all clalfes of people entertained for him, 
that, in the year 393, he was in a manner compelled by 
their urgent intreaties to be ordained prefbyter; but not 
before he had obtained theirpromife that helhould be at li¬ 
berty to remove, as he had intended, into Italy. During 
thefollowingyearhearrivedatRome, where he was treated 
with the utmoft refpeCt by all ranks; till, perceiving that 
pope Siriciusand the clergy were growing jealous of him, 
he withdrew to a country-houfe in the vicinity of Nola 
in Campania. Having palled about fifteen years in this 
place, together with his wife, in that manner of living 
w hich they adopted in Spain, Paulinus was chofenand or¬ 
dained bilhop of Nola, in the year 409, as fome think; 
or,,, as Pagi argues with great appearance of probability, 
10403. The early part of his epifcopate was difturbed 
by the incurfions of the Goths, who conquered and plun¬ 
dered the city of Nola; but he fpent the remainder of 
his life in tranquillity, a bright example of piety, benevo¬ 
lence, and charity, and the object not only of veneration 
but of delight to perfons of all ranks and parties. He 
died in 431, in the feventy-eighth year of his age. His 
genuine works confift of Letters and Poems, which are 
partly inltruflive, but chiefly lively and entertaining. 
They are correct, perfpicuous, and elegant; but the 
high praife which Aufor.ius has bellowed upon the poems, 
is greater than they merit. The firlt edition of all the 
pieces attributed to our author was published at Paris in 
1516, 8vo. and they were afterwards inferted in the fe- 
cond volume of the Orthodoxographa, as well as thefixth 
volume of the Bibl. Patr. * The belt feparate edition of 
them, is that publilhed at Paris, in 1684, in two volumes 
quarto; the firft of which contains the genuine pieces, 
and the fecond fuch as are doubtful. Cave's Hijl . Lit. 
vol. i. Pagi Crit. in Anal. BaroniiAn. 403. 
PAULI'NUS, a bilhop who flourilhed in the early part 
of the 7th century. He was the apoltle of Yorklhire, 
having been the firft archbifnop of York: this dignity 
ieems to have been conferred on him about the year 626. 
He built a church at Almonbury, and dedicated it to St. 
Alban, where he preached to and converted the Brigan¬ 
tines. Camden mentions a crofs at Dewlborough, which 
had been erefled to him, with this infcription, Paulinus 
lie prccdicavit el celebravit. York was fo fmall about this 
time, that there was not fo much as a church in it in 
which king Edwin could be baptized. Conftantius is 
faid-to have made it a bilhopric. Pope Honorius made 
it a metropolitan fee. We are told that Paulinus 
baptized in the river Swale, in one day, 10,000 men, be- 
fides women and children, on the firft converfion of the 
Saxons to Chriftianity, befides many at Halyftone. At 
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Walftone, in Northumberland, he baptized Segbert king 
of the Eaft Saxons. Bede fays, “ Paulinus, coming with 
the king and queen to the royal manor called Ad Gebrin 
(now Yeverin), ftaid there thirty-fix days with them, em¬ 
ployed in the duties of catechizing and baptizing. In 
all this time he did nothing from morning to night but 
inftrudl the people, who flocked to him from all the vil¬ 
lages and places, in the doftrine of Chriftand falvation ; 
and, after they were inftru£led, baptizing them in the 
neighbouring river Glen.” According to the fame Bede, 
“ he preached the word in the province of Lindifli ; and 
firft converted the governor of the city of Lindocollina, 
(Lincoln,) whofe name was Blecca, with all his family. 
I11 this city lie built a (tone church of exquifite workman- 
fhip, whofe roof being ruined by long neglefit or the vio¬ 
lence of the enemy, only the walls are now Handing.” 
He is alfo faid to have founded a collegiate church of pre¬ 
bends near Southwell, in Nottinghamfhire, dedicated to 
the Virgin Mary. 
PAULI'NUS, patriarch of Aquileia in the eighth cen¬ 
tury, and who is honoured by the Catholics with the ti¬ 
tle of faint, on account of his zealous defences of the 
orthodox doflrine of the Trinity, was born in fome part 
of the Auftrian dominions. He diftinguilhed himfelf by 
his laborious application, and zeal for the advancement 
of learning and fcience. His proficiency, coniidering 
the age in which he lived, was very confiderable, and 
entitles him to a high rank among his Latin contempo- 
raries. By his erudition he recommended himfelf to the 
patronage of the emperor Charlemagne, who bellowed 
on him various fubftantial marks of his favour, and, to¬ 
wards the clofe of the year 776, promoted him to the pa¬ 
triarchate of Aquileia. In the year 793, he publifned a 
little treatife in defence of the Trinity, againft Elipand 
archbilhop of Toledo, entitled, “ Sacro-Syllabus,” which 
is inferted in the feventh volume of the Colledl. Concii. 
During the following year, he diftinguilhed himfelf by 
his oppofition to the opinions of Elipand, and of Felix 
bilhop of Urgela, at the council of Frankfort; and, hav¬ 
ing convened a fynod at Aquileia, procured the condem¬ 
nation of them as heretical, in 795. Two years after¬ 
wards, on the application of the famous Alcuinus to 
Charlemagne, Paulinus received the commands of the 
emperor to enter more fully into the defence of the or¬ 
thodox doflrine againft the bilhop of Urgela; in confe- 
quence of which he produced, in 798, his “ Lib. III. 
adverfus Felicem Orgelitanum,” which were firft pub¬ 
lilhed by Duchefne, together with the author’s fmaller 
treatife, at the end of Alcuini Opera, printed at Paris 
in 1617. It is proper to obferve in this place, that the 
“ Lib. VII. adverfus Felicem,” which were formerly 
attributed to Paulinus, have been reftored by the learned 
world to Alcuinus, as their real author. Similar juftice 
has likewife been rendered to Paulinus himfelf, by the 
Parifian editors of the l.aft edition of St. Auguftine’s 
Works: who, upon the credit of ancient MSS. have af- 
figned to the patriarch of Aquileia the treatife “ De Sa- 
lutaribus Documentis,” which ufed to pafs under the 
name of the African bifliop. Befides the articles already 
mentioned, fragments of “ A Letter to Heiftulphus,” 
from our author, feverely reproving that lord for. putting 
his wife to death, on the charge of adultery preferred 
againlt her by a fingle witr.efs, and alfo an entire “ Let¬ 
ter to the Emperor Charlemagne,” are inferted in the fe¬ 
venth volume of the Collefl. Concii. In the firft volume 
of Baluze’s Mifcellan. fome other fragments of pieces by 
him may likewife be found. A complete edition of all 
his works, with learned notes and illullrations, was 
publilhed at Venice in 1737, by John Francis Madrid, a 
prieft of the congregation of the Oratory. Paulinus died 
in the year 804. Gen. Biog. 
PAULINZEL'LE, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Schwartzburg Rudolftadt: eight miles weftofRudol- 
ftadt, and twenty north of Coburg. 
PAU'LLI (Simon), a medical and botanical writer, 
was 
