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Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 09:54:22

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

August 31st =E2=80=93 St. Paulinus, Bishop of Trier

This Paulinus, called by St. Athanasius "a truly apostolic man ", and
referred to by St. Jerome as " happy in his sufferings " for the
faith, was educated in the cathedral-school of Poitiers and was a
disciple of St. Maximinus whom he succeeded in the see of Trier.
During the exile of St. Athanasius at Trier Paulinus had become one of
his most fervent supporters, and at the arianizing synod of Aries in
353 he stood out boldly for the faith of Nicaea and opposed the papal
legates who were prepared to condemn Athanasius. In the same cause he
withstood the intimidation and violence of the Emperor Constantius,
and was banished from his see with St. Dionysius of Milan, St.
Eusebius of Vercelli and St. Lucifer of Cagliari; he was sent into
Phrygia, to places so remote that Christians had hardly been heard of,
and died in exile in the year 358 as expressed in the Roman
Martyrology," wearied even to death by the changes and chances of
exile far beyond Christian lands, he received from the Lord the crown
of a blessed passion, dying at length in Phrygin His body was brought
back to Trier by its bishop St. Felix in 396 and enshrined in 402 in
the church which bore his name, amid the ruins of which his tomb was
found in 1738.

=C2  Great interest attaches to St. Paulinus from the fact that his
skeleton, still wrapped in oriental silk-stuffs with fragments of the
wooden coffin in which it had been brought from Phrygia, was in 1883
taken out of the sarcophagus in which it lay and minutely investigated
by a committee of archaeologists and other experts.=C2  The scientists
pronounced the relics to be unquestionably authentic, and satisfied
themselves that the saint had not, as some stories alleged, been
decapitated.

=C2  See the Acta Sanctorum, August, vol. vi, where a Latin life is
printed dating from the ninth or tenth century. For the relics, see
Father Schneider in the Jahrbuchern des Vereins f=C3=BCr Alterthumsfreunden
im Rheinlande, vol. 78 (1884), pp. 167 seq. On the life of Paulinus
cf. P. Diel, Der hl. Maximinus und der hl. Paulinus (1875).



Counsels on the Inner Life=C2  (IX)

The patient man undergoes a great and wholesome purgation; while
suffering injuries, he grieves yet more for the malice of others than
for his own wrongs; he gladly prays for his enemies, and from his
heart forgives their offences; he does not hesitate to ask pardon of
others; he is more easily moved to compassion than to anger; he rules
himself with strictness, and endeavors to make the body subject to the
spirit in all things. It is better to expiate our sins and overcome
our vices now, than to reserve them for purgation hereafter; but we
deceive ourselves by our inordinate love of the body.
--Thomas =C3  Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 2 Ch 1
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