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Paulinus was a deacon of the church of Milan who served as notary and personal secretary to Bishop Ambrose. He was with him at the end — he says he was present at Ambrose's…

Lucifer was bishop of Cagliari, the chief city of Sardinia, from sometime before 353 until his death about 370 or 371. He entered history as the most uncompromising defender…

Ambrose was born about 339 at Trier, where his father served as praetorian prefect of Gaul — one of the four or five highest offices in the Western empire. The father died…

Nicetas was bishop of Remesiana, a town on the great military road through the Balkans, in what is now Bela Palanka in southeastern Serbia. He was born about 335 and died about…

Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus was born about 354 at Bordeaux in Gaul, into one of the richest senatorial families in the western empire, with estates in Aquitaine, Spain…