ST. PAULINUS – Jun 22
DVRodriguez2020-11-09T14:58:31-05:00St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola in Campania, Italy (354-431 AD) SITTING AT THE TOP OF THE WORLDLY WORLD At birth, our saint was named Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus. He was born to a wealthy Roman family in the bustling harbor city of Bordeaux in Gaul. As praetorian prefect of Gaul, his father gave him an upbringing and education that was the envy of all. Paulinus studied rhetoric and poetry under Ausonius, the most learned and famous poet of this age. He became a lawyer and by the ripe age of twenty-five had advanced to Prefect of Rome! He married a noble [...]