PAULINUS, Bishop of York, Saint. - He was the apostle of the Saxon Heptarchy; the year of his birth is uncertain, he died at Rochester on 10 Oct. 644. From the monastery of St. Andrew on the Caelian Hill, where he lived, he was sent by Pope St. Gregory in 601 to England to carry the pallium to the monk St. Augustine, primate of Canterbury.

He carried out his apostolate in Kent from 615 to 625, when he went to the court of Northumbria to accompany Ethelburga, the promised bride of that king Edwin, whom he succeeded in converting to Christianity and baptized on 12 Apr. 627. Consecrated bishop, he established his see at York, carrying on a fruitful activity at Yeavering, Carrick Bridge, Dewsbury, Southwell. After the defeat of Edwin by King Penda of Mercia (933), he escorted the widow Ethelburga and her children safely back to Kent. In 634 he received the pallium as archbishop of York, but, given the hostility of King Penda, his activity took place especially at Rochester, where he died and was buried, and where his body remained until the time of the Protestant Reformation. Feast day 10 Oct.

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BIBL.: Beda, Hist. Eccl., II, 9, XII-XX; PL 94, 21-200; Alcuino, De pontificibus Eccl. Eboracensis; PL 101, 812; Acta SS, Octubris, V, Paris 1868, pp. 108-14; BHL, I, 4, p. 951; F. Cabrol, L'Angleterre chrétienne avant les Normands, Paris 1909.

Nicola Turchi

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