Albinus
Albinus
A scholarly English monk, pupil of Archbishop Theodore, and of Abbot Adrian of St. Peter’s, Canterbury, contemporary of Saint Bede (673-735). He succeeded Adrian in the Abbatial office, and was buried beside him in 732. His chief title to fame lies in the fact that we owe to him the composition by Saint Bede of his “Ecclesiastical History of the English”. The latter gratefully records the fact in the letter he sent to Albinus with a copy of the work, and at greater length in his letter to King Ceolwulf, both of which serve as a preface to the narrative. He calls Albinus a most learned man in all the sciences (Hist. Ecc. Angl., v, 20), and says that to his instigation and help the above-mentioned work was chiefly owing (auctor ante omnes atque adjutor opusculi hujus).Bede learned from him what had happened in Kent since the arrival of St. Augustine, both ecclesiastical and civil matters. Nothelm, a priest of London, served as their intermediary, and when the former returned from Rome with additional documents from the pontifical archives, Albinus was again called on to help in fitting them into their proper places. He seems to have been endowed with a fine historical sense, for the Father of English ecclesiastical history delights in confessing his earnestness, diligence, and erudition in all that pertained to the apostolic period of England’s conversion.
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BEDE, Opp. Hist. (ed. Plummer, Oxford, 1896, I, 3,6; Hist. Ecc. Angl., v. 20, for Bede’s references to Albinus; STUBBS in Dict. Of Christ. Biogr., I, 70.
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Albinus
(a frequent Roman name, signifying whitish; Graecized ), a procurator of Judaea in the reign of Nero, about A.D. 62 and 63, the successor of Festus and predecessor of Florus. He was guilty of almost every kind of crime in his government, pardoning the vilest criminals for money, and shamelessly plundering the provincials (Josephus, Ant. 20, 9, 1; War, 2, 14, 1). He was perhaps identical with Luccius Albinus, procurator of Mauritania under Nero and Galba, but murdered by his subjects on the accession of Otho, A.D. 69 (Tacitus, Hist. 2, 58, 59).
Albinus
is the name of two saints mentioned in the old Roman martyrologies; one a bishop and confessor commemorated March 1, the other a martyr commemorated June 21.
Albinus
priest of the Convent of the Augustinians at Canterbury, was versed in the ancient languages, and very learned for his time. He died in 732. He assisted Bede in the composition of his Historia Ecclesiastica. The letter from Bede thanking Albinus for his assistance is still preserved. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.