Missionary and Bishop ♗ ( ✝️ 644 Anno Domini A.D.) Feast: 10 October
The deeds of Saint Paulinus are known chiefly through Saint Bede's "History of the English Church and Its People", written in the eighth century. An Italian monk, Paulinus was among the second band of missionaries sent by Pope Gregory the Great to convert the Anglo-Saxon peoples of England. He arrived there in 604. Bede describes him as "a man tall of stature, a little stooping, with black hair and a thin face, a hooked and thin nose, his aspect both venerable and awe-inspiring." He worked chiefly in Northumbria, his great achievement there being the conversion of King Edwin. 🤴 ➡️ ⛪
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While Bede records ✍️ few words of Paulinus, he reserves the most eloquent speech for one of the king's counselors, who compares the present life of a man to the flight of a sparrow through a banqueting hall: 🐦 💨 🏰 🐦 💨 "This sparrow flies swiftly in through one door 🚪 of the hall and out through another 🚪 . While he is inside he is safe from the winter storms 🌬️ 🌨️ ❄️ ; but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the darkness whence he came. Similarly, man appears on earth for a little while, but we know nothing of what went before this life and what follows. Therefore, if this new teaching can reveal any more certain knowledge, it seems only right that we should follow it."
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Paulinus evidently rose to this challenge. King Edwin agreed to be baptized, followed by the conversion of all of his thanes, counselors, and subjects. Paulinus became the bishop of York and later of Rochester. He died in 644.
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"If...you are willing to follow His will which is made known to you through me, He will also rescue you from the everlasting torments of the wicked and make you a partaker with Him of His everlasting kingdom..."
-Paulinus to King Edwin
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