Saint Paulinus. Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 22 June.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Saint Paulinus.
   Bishop And Confessor.
   Feast Day 22 June.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Paulinus of Nola.

English: Gothic-Revival Stained-Glass Window, Linz Cathedral, Austria.

Deutsch: Linzer Dom ( Oberösterreich ). Neogotisches

Buntglasfenster mit Darstellung des heiligen Paulinus von Nola.

Photo: 14 March 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Wolfgang Sauber.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Paulinus, born in 353 A.D. of a very distinguished Roman family at Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, distinguished himself in his studies and became a Senator at the age of twenty-five.

Elected a Consul, he established his residence at Nola, Campania, Italy, near the tomb of Saint Felix, the Martyred Priest, whose Feast The Church Celebrates on 14 January, where he was suddenly touched by Grace and, soon after, Baptised.

Following the example of Christ, "Who, being Rich, made Himself Poor" (Epistle), and Who counselled the practice of The Virtue of Poverty (Gospel), he abandoned his great riches and, at this price, bought The Kingdom of Heaven.

Having separated from his wife, who also gave herself to God, he became a Priest. Later, he was Bishop of Nola (Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion).

His former friends blamed him: " He is content with the approval of Jesus". Soon afterwards, The Goths ravaged Campania and utterly despoiled The Rich of Rome, who gained no merit thereby, whereas Saint Paulinus, who had abandoned his riches voluntarily for Christ's sake, is rewarded a hundredfold hereafter in Eternal Life.

He died in 431 A.D., at the age of seventy-eight, and was buried near Saint Felix at Nola.

Mass: Sacerdotes tui.