s were enjoined penance
for a breach of silence or any other fault. Her bed was a coarse skin,
laid on the bare floor, with a stone for her pillow. She was favored
with the gift of miracles and prophecy. She gave up her pure soul to
God, after a short illness, on the 18th of January, in the year 1271,
and of her age the twenty-eighth. Her body is preserved at Presbourg.
See her life by Guerinus, a Dominican, by order of his general, in 1340:
and an abridgment of the same by Ranzano. She was never canonized, but
is honored with an office in all the churches in Hungary, especially
those of the Dominicans in that kingdom, by virtue of a decree of Pope
Pius II, as Touron assures us.[2]

Footnotes:
1. Touron, Vies des Hommes Illustres de l'Ordre de St. Dominique, in
Humbert des Romains, fifth general of the Dominicans, t. 1, p. 325.
2. Touron, ib. in Innocent V. t. 1, p. 384.

ST. PAULINUS, PATRIARCH OF AQUILEIA, C.

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 {285} about the year 728, 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 studios, and in process of time became so eminent a
grammarian and professor, that Charlemagne honored 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 Frankfort 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 Processi