Patriarche d'Aquilée (✝ 804)
On ignore s'il était d'origine allemande ou italienne. Il passa pour être l'un des hommes les plus savants de son époque, écrivant aussi bien en prose qu'en vers. Alcuin le considérait comme son maître et l'empereur Charlemagne l'appela à sa cour pour en faire l'un de ses conseillers en matière religieuse. C'est lui qui le fit nommer évêque d'Aquilée, dans le Frioul italien. Selon ses contemporains, il fut "la lumière de la chrétienté" sans pour autant négliger le soin de son propre diocèse. Il fut l'un des grands défenseurs du "Filioque" ajouté dans le texte latin du Concile de Nicée. Il évangélisa les Avars et les Slovènes.
À Frioul aux confins de la Vénétie, en 802, saint Paulin, évêque d’Aquilée, qui entreprit de convertir à la foi les Avares et les Slovènes et adressa à Charlemagne un poème remarquable sur la règle de la foi.
Le Verbe très saint du Père, tout-puissant et absolument parfait, se répand en toutes choses. Il déploie partout sa puissance. Il éclaire toutes choses, visibles et invisibles. Il les contient en lui et les rassemble en lui. Il n’en laisse aucune en dehors de sa puissance, mais il donne vie et protection à toutes choses, en tout lieu, à chacune en particulier et à toutes ensemble.
Saint Athanase, dans le Livre des heures de ce jour
Saint Paulin d’Aquilée
Patriarche d’Aquilée (+ 804)
Peut-être originaire d’Alsace, ce professeur avait tant de renommée que Charlemagne ne prenait jamais une décision sans le consulter. En 776, l’Empereur lui fit don d’une terre en Lombardie. Losque le diocèse d’Aquilée se trouva sans évêque, il fut préssenti mais refusa longuement avant d’accepter. Il fut missionnaire auprès des peuples encore païens et prit part aux Conciles d’Aix-la-Chapelle (789), de Rastibonne (792) et de Francfort (794). Il fut canoniser à la vue des miracles qui eurent de son vivant et après sa mort.
SOURCE : http://viechretienne.catholique.org/saints/491-saint-paulin-d-aquilee
Saint Paulin d'Aquilée
Patriarche d'Aquilée (+ 804)
On ignore si Paulin est d'origine allemande ou italienne. Il passe pour être l'un des hommes les plus savants de son époque, écrivant aussi bien en prose qu'en vers. L'empereur Charlemagne l'appelle à la cour pour en faire l'un de ses conseillers en matière religieuse. C'est lui qui le fait nommer évêque d'Aquilée, dans le Frioul italien. Le savant Alcuin le considére comme son maître. Il fut l'un des grands défenseurs du "Filioque" ajouté dans le texte latin du Concile de Nicée.
SOURCE : http://www.croire.com/Saints/Saint-Paulin-d-Aquilee
Saint Paulin d'Aquilée (né avant 750 - mort en 802)
En latin Paulinus Aquileiensis, évêque, théologien et poète italien du VIIIe siècle. C'est un saint de l'Église catholique, qui fut évêque d'Aquilée. Paulin d'Aquilée fut l'un des éléments moteurs de la Renaissance carolingienne. Il est sans doute d'origine italienne, peut-être lombarde. On ne sait rien de sa jeunesse et de ses années de formation, mais son oeuvre montre qu'il a reçu une solide éducation classique et chrétienne. Son nom apparaît en 776 dans un acte de transfert de bien-fonds en sa faveur par Charlemagne et où il est indiqué comme maître de grammaire ("grammaticae magister"). Il fait partie aux côtés d'Alcuin du cercle de savants de la cour franque, où il porte le surnom de "Thimotée". En 787 Charlemagne le fait nommer évêque d'Aquilée, dans le Frioul italien. Il s'engage dans la réforme de l'église et la lutte contre l'hérésie adoptianiste qui tend à voir en Jésus Christ le fils adoptif de Dieu. Ses écrits polémiques en font un champion de l'orthodoxie. Son activité de patriarche est fondamentale dans la région du Frioul durant les années difficiles du passage de la domination lombarde à celle carolingienne. Il prend part aux conciles d'Aix-la-Chapelle (789), de Ratisbonne (792) et de Francfort (794). Il est l'auteur de traités théologiques, d'un livre d'exhortations destinés aux princes et de poèmes. Il meurt à Cividale en 802.
SOURCE : http://www.jeffdulac.fr/Ephemerides_journalier/Janvier/11janvier.php
Blessing
of Friulli-slavic Army by Aquilean Patriarch Paulinus II before the War aganst
the Avars. Photo from the Cathedral of Aquilea.
Also
known as
Paulinus II
formerly 11
January (pre-17th century)
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February (17th
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Raised on a farm,
and broadly self educated, gaining a wide reputation for scholarship. Teacher.
Invited courtier to Charlemagne begining
in 774,
he was named “royal master of grammar”. He served at court for
over a decade and became a favorite of the emperor. Poet.
Reluctant Patriarch of Aquileia in
northern Italy in 787.
He attended all the great councils convoked during his time, and well known as
a defender of the faith against heretics.
Fought the heresy of Adoptionism,
and convoked a synod to combat several heresies that
denied Christ’s Divine nature; two surviving works attributed to him combat
this heresy.
He dispatched and supported missionaries to pagan territories,
and ordered them not to force conversions,
or baptize those
ignorant of the Faith or
who thought it was some type of magic. Noted preacher in
the area of Styria and Crinthia.
Born
c.726 Premariacco
near Cividale, Italy
11
January 804 of
natural causes
relics are
under the altar of
the crypt of
the basilica of
Cividale del Friuli, Italy
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Peter,
whatever thou shalt bind on earth,
The same is bound above the starry sky;
What here thy delegated power doth loose,
Is loosed in heaven’s supremest Court on high:
To judgment shalt thou come, when the world’s end is nigh.
Praise to the Father,
through all ages be;
Praise to the consubstantial sovereign Son,
And Holy Ghost, One glorious Trinity;
To whom all majesty and might belong;
So sing we now, and such be our eternal song.
attributed to Saint Paulinus
of Aquileia
translated by Father Edward
Caswall
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/quodcumque-in-orbe/
St. Paulinus of Aquileia
Feastday: January 11
Birth: 726
Death: 804
Born near Friuli, Italy,
Paulinus in his youth worked on his family's farm. Years later, as a priest, he
became a renowned grammar professor whose reputation reached the court of the
Frankish emperor Charlemagne. It was through the intervention of Charlemagne that
Paulinus was chosen archbishop of Aquileia in
787. Paulinus served in his see with great holiness. The famed scholar Alcuin begged
Paulinus to pray for him at every Mass he celebrated. A
zealous defender of the Church's teachings, Paulinus wrote a book to refute
Adoptionism, a heresy which
claimed that Christ as
Son of Man was
only the "adoptive" Son of God. At a synod convened
by Paulinus at Cividale in 796, he reiterated the Church's Trinitarian teaching
of the procession of the Holy Spirit from
both the Father and the Son. Paulinus exhorted his clergy to celebrate
the Mass and
the other sacraments precisely
as prescribed by the rubrics and
texts of the Church. In a manual of spiritual advice that Paulinus composed for
the duke of Friuli, he stresses the need of seeking to please God in
all our actions.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5977
St. Paulinus II, Patriarch of Aquileia
Born at Premariacco, near Cividale, Italy,
about 730-40; died 802. Born probably of a Roman family during Longobardic rule
in Italy,
he was brought up in the patriarchal schools at
Cividale. After ordination he
became master of the school.
He acquired a thorough Latin culture, pagan and Christian.
He had also a deep knowledge of jurisprudence,
and extensive Scriptural, theological,
and patristic training. This learning won him the favour of Charlemagne.
After the destruction of the Kingdom of the Longobards in
774, Charles invited Paulinus to France in
776, to be royal master of grammar". He assisted in restoring civilization
in the West. In 777 Paulinus made his first acquaintance with
Petrus of Pisa, Alcuin,
Arno, Albrico, Bona,
Riculph, Raefgot, Rado, Lullus, Bassinus, Fuldrad, Eginard, Adalard,
and Adelbert, the leading men of that age.
His devotion to Charlemagne was
rewarded by many favours, among them the gift of the property of
Waldand, son of Mimo of Lavariano, with a diploma dated from Ivrea,
and his appointment by Charles as Patriarch of Aquileia in
787. Paulinus took a prominent part in the important matters of his
day. In his relations with the churches of Istria, or with
the Patriarch of
Grado, the representative of Byzantine interests, he showed the
greatest prudence and pastoral zeal. Paulinus obtained
diplomas for the free election of the future patriarchs,
and other privileges for the Church of Aquileia,
viz. the monastery of St.
Mary in Organo, the church of
St. Laurence of Buia, the hospitals of St.
John at Cividale and St. Mary at Verona.
He helped in preparing the new Christian legislation, and amongst the
"Italic Capitularia" we find some canons of his synods.
In 792 he was present at the Council of Ratisbon,
which condemned the heresy of Adoptionism taught
by Eliphand and Felix, Bishop of Urgel.
In 794 he took a leading part in the national
Synod of Frankfort-on-the-Main,
where Adoptionism was
again condemned, and wrote a book against it which was sent to Spain in
the name of the council. Leaving Frankfort Paulinus paid a
visit to Cividale and accompanied Pepin against the Avars.
At Salzburg he presided over a synod of bishops,
in which were discussed the evangelization of the barbarians,
and baptism,
as we learn from letters of Charles, Alcuin,
Arno, and Paulinus. Returning from the expedition
the patriarch once more opposed the Adoptionists at
the Synod of Cividale in 796. Paulinus expounded the Catholic
doctrine about the Blessed
Trinity, especially about the procession of the Holy
Ghost from the Father and the Son. At this synod fourteen
"canons" on ecclesiastical
discipline, and on the sacrament of marriage, were framed
and a copy of the Acts was sent to the emperor. Paulinus is
said to have assisted at the Council of Altinum,
but Hefele has proved that
a council was never held there. In 798 he was "Missus
Dominicus" of Charlemagne at Pistoia,
with Arno and ten other bishops;
and afterwards he went to Rome as
imperial legate to
the Pope.
The activity of Paulinus as metropolitan is
clear from the "Sponsio Episcoporum ad S.
Aquileiensem Sedem . Among his works are: Libellus Sacrosyllabus
contra Elipandum ; Libri III contra Felicem ;
the protocol of the conference with Pepin and the bishops on
the Danube, a work very important for the history of that
expedition. Paulinus was also a poet, and we till possess some of his
poetical productions: "Carmen de regula fidei ; the rhythmus or elegy
for the death of his friend, Duke Heric, killed in battle, 799;
another rhythm on the destruction of Aquileia;
eight rhythms or hymns to
be sung in his own church for Christmas,
the Purification, Lent, Easter, St.
Mark, Sts. Peter and Paul, the dedication, and "Versus
de Lazaro". He died revered as a saint. In manuscripts prior
to the Martyrology of Usuard his feast is
recorded on 11 Jan. In the calendars of saints of
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, used in the Church of Aquileia and
Cividale, his feast has a special rubric.
The first appearance of the name St. Paulinus in
the Liturgy occurs in the "Litaniae" of Charles the Bald of
the ninth century. It appears also in the "Litaniae Carolinae", in
the "Litaniae a S. Patribus constitutae", and finally in
the Litaniae" of the Gertrudian manuscript of
the tenth century. Down to the sixteenth century the feast was
celebrated on 11 Jan., during the privileged octave of
the Epiphany. The patriarch Francesco Barbaro at the
beginning of the seventeenth century translated the feast to 9 Feb. The Church of
Cividale keeps his feast on
2 March. After several translations the relics of
the saintly patriarch were laid to rest under
the altar of the crypt of
the basilica of Cividale del Friuli.
Cossio, Aluigi. "St. Paulinus II, Patriarch of Aquileia." The
Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton
Company, 1911. 2 Jan.
2016 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11586a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for
New Advent by Michael C. Tinkler.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil
Obstat. February 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2020 by Kevin
Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11586a.htm
Paulinus of Aquileia B (AC)
Born at Cividale (near Fruili), Italy, c. 726; died at Aquileia, Italy, 804;
feast day formerly January 11. Although Saint Paulinus was born on a farm to
parents of modest means, himself tilled the soil, and studied on his own in his
leisure, he was well-educated and earn a reputation as a scholar. For this
reason he was summoned to Charlemagne's court in 776 after the destruction of
the Lombard Kingdom in 774. Here he became fast friends with Blessed Alcuin. In
784, Paulinus was elevated to patriarch of Aquileia, near his hometown in
northern Italy. During his episcopacy Paulinus was active. He took part in
several church councils in which he took the lead in defending the filioque, and
competently wrote much against Adoptionism, a heresy which was then spreading
throughout Spain. He also carried on missionary work among the Avars, but, in
concert with Pepin of Italy and the Danubian bishops, he condemned the baptism
of uninstructed or unwilling converts. In addition to theological tracts,
Paulinus wrote poems, hymns, and a book of spiritual direction for use by Duke
Henry of Friuli (Attwater, Attwater2, Benedictines, Coulson).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0128.shtml
St. Paulinus, Patriarch of Aquileia,
Confessor
ONE of the most illustrious and
most holy prelates of the eighth and ninth centuries was Paulinus, patriarch of
Aquileia, who seems to have been born about the year 726, in a country farm not
far from Friuli. His family could boast of no advantages of fortune, and his
parents having no other revenue than what arose from the tillage of their farm,
he spent part of his youth in agriculture. Yet he found leisure for his
studies, and in process of time became so eminent a grammarian and professor,
that Charlemagne honoured him with a rescript, in which he styles him Master of
Grammar, and Very Venerable. This epithet seems to imply that he was then
priest. The same prince, in recompense of his extraordinary merit, bestowed on
him an estate in his own country. It seems to have been about the year 776,
that Paulinus was promoted, against his will, to the patriarchate of Aquileia,
which dignity had not then been long annexed to that see, after the extinction
of the schism of Istria. From the zeal, abilities, and piety of St. Paulinus
this church derived its greatest lustre. Such was his reputation, that
Charlemagne always expressed a particular desire that he should be present at
all the great councils which were assembled in his time, though in the remotest
part of his dominions. He assisted at those of Aix-la-Chapelle in 789, of
Ratisbon in 792, and of Francfort in 794; and held himself one at Friuli, in
791, or 796, against the errors which some had begun to spread in that age
concerning the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and the mystery of the
Incarnation.
Felix, bishop of Urgel in Catalonia,
in a letter to Elipandus, bishop of Toledo, who had consulted him on that
subject, before the year 783, pretended to prove that Christ as man is not the
natural, but only the adoptive Son of God: which error he had already advanced
in his public discourses. 1 The
rising error was vigorously opposed by Beatus, a priest and abbot, and his
disciple Etherius, who was afterwards bishop of Osma. Soon after it was
condemned by a council at Narbonne, in 788, 2 and
by another at Ratisbon, in 792, whilst Charlemagne kept his court in that city.
Felix revoked his error first in this council at Ratisbon, and afterwards
before Pope Leo III. at Rome. 3 Yet
after his return into Spain he continued both by letters and discourses to
spread his heresy; which was therefore again condemned in the great council of
Francfort, in 794, in which a work of our saint, entitled “Sacro-Syllabus,”
against the same, was approved, and ordered to be sent into Spain, to serve for
an antidote against the spreading poison. 4 From
this book of St. Paulinus it is clear that Elipandus also returned to the
vomit. Alcuin returning from England, where he had staid three years, in 793,
wrote a tender moving letter to Felix, exhorting him sincerely to renounce his
error. But the unhappy man, in a long answer, endeavoured to establish his
heresy so roundly as to fall into downright Nestorianism, which indeed is a
consequence of his erroneous principle. For Christ as man cannot be called the
adoptive Son of God, unless his human nature subsist by a distinct person from
the divine. 5 By
an order of Charlemagne, Alcuin and Saint Paulinus solidly confuted the
writings of these two heresiarchs, the former in seven, and our saint in three
books. Alcuin wrote four other books against the pestilential writings of
Elipandus, in which he testifies that Felix was then at Rome, and converted to
the Catholic faith. Elipandus, who was not a subject of Charlemagne, could not
be compelled to appear before the councils held in his dominions, Toledo being
at that time subject to the Moors. Felix, after his relapse, returned to the
faith with his principal followers in the council of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 797. 6 From
that time he concealed his heresy; but continued in secret to defend it, and at
his death, in 815, left a written profession of his heresy. 7 Elipandus
died in 809. 8
The zeal of St. Paulinus was not less
successful in the conversion of infidels than in the extinction of this heresy.
Burning with zeal for the salvation of souls, and a vehement desire of laying
down his life for Christ, he preached the gospel to the idolaters who had
remained to that time obstinately attached to their superstition amongst the
Carantani in Carinthia and Stiria; in which provinces also St. Severinus the
abbot, who died in 481, and afterwards St. Virgilius, bishop of Saltzburg, who
died in 785, planted several numerous churches. Whence a contest arising
between Arno, St. Virgilius’s successor, and Ursus, the successor of Paulinus,
to which see Carinthia, ought to be annexed, it was settled in 811, that the
churches which are situated on the south of the Drave should be subject to the
patriarchate of Aquileia, and those on the north to the archbishopric of
Saltzburg. 9 The
Avares, a barbarous nation of Huns, who were settled in part of Pannonia, and
were twice subdued by Charlemagne, received the faith by the preaching of St.
Paulinus, and of certain missionaries sent by the archbishops of Saltzburgh. 10 Henry,
a virtuous nobleman, being appointed by Charlemagne Duke of Friuli, and
governor of that country which he had lately conquered, St. Paulinus wrote for
his use an excellent book Of Exhortation, in which he strongly invites him to
aspire with his whole heart after Christian perfection, and lays down the most
important rules on the practice of compunction and penance, on the remedies
against different vices, especially pride, without which he shows that no sin
ever was, or will be committed, this being the beginning, end, and cause of all
sin: 11 on
an earnest desire and study to please God with all our strength in all our
actions; 12 on
assiduous prayer and its essential dispositions: on the holy communion, of the
preparation to which after sin he shows confession and penance to be an
essential part: 13 on
shunning bad company, &c. He closes the book with a most useful prayer; and
in the beginning promises his prayers for the salvation of the good duke. By
tears and prayers he ceased not to draw down the blessings of the divine mercy
on the souls committed to his charge. Alcuin earnestly besought him as often as
bathed in tears he offered the spotless victim to the divine Majesty, to
implore the divine mercy in his behalf. 14 In
802, St. Paulinus assembled a council at Altino a city near the Adriatic sea,
which had been destroyed by Attila, and was at that time only a shadow of what
it had been, though famous for a monastery, in which this synod was probably
held. 15 It
is long since entirely decayed. St. Paulinus closed a holy life by a happy
death on the 11th of January, in 804, as Madrisius proves. 16 His
festival occurs on this day in the old missal of Acquileia, and in several
German Martyrologies: but it is at present kept at Aquileia, Friuli, and in
some other places on the 28th of January. 17 See
the life of St. Paulinus of Acquileia compiled by Nicoletti, with the notes of
Madrisius; and far more accurately by Madrisius himself, an Oratorian of Utina,
who in 1737 published at Venice the works of this father in folio, illustrated
with long notes and dissertations on every circumstance relating to the history
or writings of our saint. See also Ceillier, t. 18. p. 262. and Bollandus ad 11
Januarii.
Note 1. See Madrisius, Dissert. 4. p.
214. [back]
Note
2. On
this council see Baluze, additam. ad. C. 25. l. 6. Petri de Marca, de Concord.
Sacerd. et Imp. [back]
Note 3. Leo III. in Conc. Rom. 799. Act. 2.
et Eginard in Annal. &c. [back]
Note
4. See
Madrisius, Dissert. 4. p. 219. [back]
Note 5. See Natal. Alex. Sæc. 8. diss.
5. [back]
Note
6. Alcuin, l. 1.
contra Elipand. [back]
Note 7. Agobard, l. 1. adv. Felicem. n. 1
& 5. [back]
Note
8. From certain false chronicles, Iamayo
and Ceiller (in St. Beatus, t. 18. p. 364.) relate that Elipandus revoked his
error in a council which he held at Toledo, and died penitent. Madrisius shows
this circumstance to be uncertain, (Diss. 4. in op. S. Paulini, p. 225.) and
Nicolas Antony of Seville, in his Bibl. Hisp. l. 6. c. 2. n. 42. has proved the
monuments upon which it is founded to be of no authority. Claudius, bishop of
Turin, a disciple of Felix of Urgel, renewed this heresy in Italy, and denied
the veneration due to holy images, and was refuted by Jonas, bishop of Orleans,
and others. [back]
Note 9. Sconleben, Annal. Austr. and
Madrisius, Vit. S. Paulini, c. 8. [back]
Note
10. Alcuin, ep. 112. F. Inchofer, in Annal.
Hungar. Eccl. ad an. 795. Madrisius, in Vit. St. Paulini, c. 8. p. 31. [back]
Note 11. St. Paulin.
l. Exhort. ad Henr. ducem. c. 19. p. 29. [back]
Note 12. C. 24. p.
34. [back]
Note 13. C. 33. p.
39. See 1 Corinth. xi. 28. St. Cypr. ep. 9, 10, 11. and Tract. de
Lapsis. [back]
Note 14. Alcuin, ep.
113. and Poem. 214. [back]
Note 16. Madris. in
Vitâ St. Paulini, c. 13. p. 37. [back]
Note 17. Besides the
polemical and spiritual works of St. Paulinus of Aquileia, mentioned above, we
have several poems of his composition: the first contains a rule of faith
against the Arians, Nestorians, and Eutychians: the rest are hymns or rhythms
on the Chair of St. Peter, and on several other festivals and saints. Among his
letters the second is most remarkable, in which he complains severely to
Charlemagne that several bishops attending the court neglected to reside in
their diocesses. Against this abuse he quotes the council of Sardica, which
forbade any bishop to be absent from his see above three weeks. Madrisius, p.
188. [back]
Rev. Alban Butler
(1711–73). Volume I: January. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
Cividale, Italy. Museo Cristiano: Baptistry of Callixtus - Paulinus relief (VIIIth century )
San Paolino d'Aquileia Vescovo
† Cividale, 802
Teologo e musicista,
Paolino è originario di Cividale, nell’attuale Friuli. Voluto da Carlo Magno
tra i sette saggi che dovevano unificare l’Europa, nel 787 è vescovo di
Aquileia e opera per la riforma della Chiesa. Evangelizzatore della Slovenia,
partecipa ai concili fino alla morte, nell’802.
Martirologio
Romano: A Cividale del Friuli, san Paolino, vescovo di Aquileia, che si
adoperò nel convertire alla fede gli Avari e gli Sloveni e dedicò al re Carlo
Magno un celebre poema sulla regola di fede.
La storia di Paolino,
nato a Cividale, nel ducato longobardo del Friuli, verso l’anno 730, è
strettamente legata al progetto coltivato da Carlo Magno di unificare l’Europa
(con l’appoggio del Papa e sotto il segno della Croce di Cristo): fu nella storia
il primo vero progetto di Unità europea, intesa anche in senso culturale. A
tale scopo il sovrano aveva riunito ad Aquisgrana, nell’'Accademia Palatina'
(il prototipo delle future università), un gruppo di sette saggi (il nome più
celebre è quello di Alcuino di York) che dovevano aiutarlo nell’impresa,
stringendo fra loro una forte amicizia ed elaborando assieme le linee culturali
del progetto. E Paolino fu chiamato a farne parte. Gli amici lo definirono
«Luce di Ausonia» (cioè d’Italia). Nel 787 fu nominato patriarca di Aquileia
(il cui governo abbracciava l’Istria, il Friuli, Padova, Vicenza, Verona,
Trento) e si dedicò subito alla riforma della sua Chiesa, riportandone la
liturgia all’antica bellezza. Partecipò ai concili del tempo per combattere le
sempre insidiose eresie, e intraprese un’ampia attività missionaria verso la
Slovenia. Era di ingegno ampio e versatile: s’intendeva di teologia (e ci ha
lasciato importanti trattati dottrinali), di letteratura e perfino di musica.
Ma le sue composizioni poetico-musicali, che piaceranno perfino a Manzoni e
Carducci, avevano sempre un intento didattico. E non c’è quasi comunità
cristiana che non abbia una volta o l’altra cantato quell’inno Ubi Caritas et
Amor («Dov’è carità e Amore») che ci è stato appunto regalato da san Paolino.
Paolino, di origine e
formazione cividalese, dopo l’occupazione franca del ducato longobardo del
Friuli, divenne familiare di Carlo Magno che lo associò alla sua scuola
palatina ; nel 787 divenne patriarca d’Aquileia. Si impegnò in un grande
rinnovamento della sua Chiesa, come testimoniano, tra l’altro, gli atti del
Concilio di Cividale del 796 e la riforma dell’antica liturgia aquileiese.
Poeta sensibile, fu autore di diverse composizioni sacre. Contribuì attivamente
a confutare l’eresia adozionista, partecipando ai Concili di Ratisbona (792) e
di Francoforte (796) e scrivendo notevoli trattati polemici (Libellus
sacrosyllabus; Contra Felicem, libri tres). La sua personalità e la sua opera
gli meritarono un posto di preminenza anche nella cultura europea del tempo.
Organizzò l’attività missionaria fra le vicine popolazioni slave.
Morì a Cividale nell’802.
Autore: P. Renzo Bon
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/91143
Erwähnung
Frankfurts im Libellus sacrosyllabus des Paulinus von Aquileia aus
dem Jahr 794. Die ersten zwei Drittel des in Latein verfassten Textes sind mit
der Feder in der Schriftart Halbunziale geschrieben, das mit der
Initiale beginnende untere Drittel in der Karolingischen Minuskel. Die
Marginalie in der linken Spalte ist frühneuzeitlich, bei ihr beginnt fol. 42v.
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, clm 14468, fol. 42-42v, 821 in Regensburg
geschrieben und bis zur Säkularisation in St. Emmeram
Den hellige Paulinus av
Aquileia (~726-804)
Minnedag: 28.
januar
Den hellige Paulinus ble
født nær Friuli, og var en mann viden kjent for sin lærdom. Han var høyt
skattet av Karl
den Store, og omkring år 776 ble han utnevnt til den da meget viktige
erkebispestolen i Aquileia i Nord-Italia. Som biskop var Paulinus sentral i
bekjempelsen av den adoptianske heresi, og forkynte den kristne tro for avarene
og andre hedninger. Han forfattet også et religiøst verk til bruk for hertug
Henrik av Friuli. Minnedag 28. januar.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming - Sist oppdatert: 1999-06-06 22:54
SOURCE : http://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/paquilei
Paulinus van Aquileia,
Italië; patriarch; ? 802.
Feest 11 & 28
(met Karel de Grote) januari & 7 februari.
Hij moet rond 750 geboren
zijn in de Noord-Italiaanse stad Aquileia en werd in 776 naar het hof van Karel
de Grote († 814; feest 28 januari) in Aken gehaald om de vorst grammatica bij
te brengen. Zodoende werd hij een vriend van die andere leermeester van Karel,
de beroemde Sint Alcuïnus (†804; feest 19 mei). Sinds 787 was hij door toedoen
van Karel de Grote patriarch van zijn vaderstad Aquileia en hield zich vooral
bezig met de bekering der Avaren tot
het christendom.
Naar het schijnt is van
hem de toevoeging bij de tekst over de Heilige Geest in de geloofsbelijdenis afkomstig: '...
die voortkomt uit de Vader en de Zoon'.
[111p:25; 500; Dries van den Akker s.j./2016.07.03]
© A. van den Akker
s.j. / A.W. Gerritsen
SOURCE : https://heiligen-3s.nl/heiligen/01/11/01-11-0802-paulinus.php
