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Aquileia

Italy

Aquileia, near the head of the Adriatic in northeastern Italy (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), was founded as a Roman colony in 181 BCE and grew into one of the empire's major trading and military cities, with perhaps 100,000 inhabitants by the second century. Galen was there with the imperial court during a plague in the late 160s. It became an important Christian see, whose bishops later bore the title patriarch. Around 370 Rufinus met Jerome while living in an ascetic community there; in 381 a council at Aquileia organised by Ambrose of Milan deposed two bishops accused of Arianism, and Bishop Chromatius later commissioned Rufinus's Latin translation of Eusebius. Attila destroyed the city in 452; its basilica and ruins are a UNESCO site.

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Works composed here

  • 411

    A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

  • 411

    Jerome's Apology for Himself Against the Books of Rufinus

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

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    Rufinus' Apology in Defence of Himself

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

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    Rufinus' Preface to the Translation of Origen's Commentary on Psalms 36, 37, and 38

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

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    Rufinus' Preface to the Translation of Origen's Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

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    Rufinus's Epilogue to Pamphilus the Martyr's Apology for Origen; otherwise The Book Concerning the Adulteration of the Works of Origen

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

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    The Apology of Rufinus. Addressed to Apronianus, in Reply to Jerome's Letter to Pammachius

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

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    The Letter of Anastasius, Bishop of the Church of Rome to John Bishop of Jerusalem Concerning the Character of Rufinus

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

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    The Peroration of Rufinus Appended to His Translation of Origen's Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

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    The Preface to the Books of Recognitions of St. Clement

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

  • 411

    Translation of Pamphilus' Defence of Origen

    by Rufinus of Aquileia

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