Paulinus of Nola, Christian bishop and poet (born 354)

Paulinus of Nola

Christian bishop and saint

Paulinus of Nola born Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus, was a Roman poet, writer, and senator who attained the ranks of suffect consul and governor of Campania but—following the assassination of the emperor Gratian and under the influence of his Hispanic wife Therasia of…