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Paulini, c. HE flourished in great sanctity in the isle of Aran, on the west ofScotland, in the seventh century, and from him a neighboring smallisland is called to this day St. But finding his solitudeinterrupted by the frequent visits of his friends, he desired hisfather's consent to go to Paris to study divinity, which he easilyobtained. He spent his whole time in adoring andpraising God, and imploring his mercy.

The saint, commiserating the blindness of the paganinhabitants on the coast, passed over to the continent, and instructedthem in the faith. She was never canonized, butis honored with an office in all the churches in Hungary, especiallythose of the Dominicans in that kingdom, by virtue of a decree of PopePius II, as Touron assures us. Culcian, who had beenprefect of Thebais, was then governor of all Egypt, under the tyrantMaximinus, but afterwards lost his head in 313, by the order ofLicinius. ins of others, how great soever; and finally, hisnever evincing the smallest resentment at any insult or injury.