ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 10th of October WELCOME! SAINT PAULINUS OF YORK Saint Paulinus is celebrated in the Roman Martyrology, and in those of our country, as the apostle of the largest, and at that time the most powerful of the seven kingdoms of the English Saxons. Saint Austin [ Augustine of Canterbury ] being in want of labourers, Saint Gregory the Great , in 601, sent him Mellitus , Justus , Paulinus, and several others, together with sacred vessels, altar-cloths, and other ornaments for churches, vestments for priests, relics of the apostles and martyrs, and many books; decreeing by letters, that when the northern countries should receive the faith, York ( Eboracum ) should be appointed a metropolitical see, in like manner with Canterbury. Saint Paulinus, upon his arrival, employed his labours in Kent with great zeal and piety. It was a continual affliction to his heart to live in the midst of a people who were ...