Paulinus

Paulinus or Suetonius Paulinus (Caius Suetonius Paulinus) , d. after AD 69, Roman general. Under Claudius I he was stationed (AD 42) in Mauretania, and he advanced inland past the Atlas Mts. In AD 59 he had the command in Britain. While on a campaign to reduce the druid stronghold of Mona (Anglesey), in AD 61, he was recalled to S Britain by the uprising of Boadicea , who defeated the ninth legion and took Verulamium (St. Albans) and Londinium (London). Paulinus suppressed the revolt. After Nero's death he led the troops of Otho against Vitellius , but the victorious Vitellius pardoned him (AD 69).

Paulinus, St (d. 644), Bp. of York. He was sent to England by Gregory I in 601. When in 625 Edwin, King of Northumbria, married Ethelburga of Kent, Paulinus was consecrated bishop and went with her to York. As a result of his preaching, Edwin and his chiefs accepted Christianity at the assembly of Goodmanham (627). When Edwin was defeated in 633, Paulinus returned with Ethelburga to Kent and became Bp. of Rochester. Feast day, 10 Oct.

Paulinus, St (d. 644). First bishop of the Northumbrians. A Roman monk, tall, dark, thin‐faced with an aquiline nose, according to Bede one of Mellitus' party sent in 601 by Pope Gregory I to help Augustine in Kent. He was consecrated by Justus to accompany the Princess Æthelburg to Northumbria to marry Edwin. He preached at Yeavering, Catterick, Lincoln, and elsewhere, and introduced the building of churches in stone. After Edwin's death (633) at Heathfield Chase, Paulinus fled to Kent and took up the see of Rochester.