Rufus (II)

II. RUFUS, of whom St. Paul speaks, in his Epistle to the Romans; he is, perhaps, the same as St. Rufus Son of Simon the Cyrenean. The ancient Martyrologies of Bede, Usuard, Ado, and the Roman, put his Feast on the 21st of November. The false Dorotheus makes him Bishop of Thebes. We have seen, in the foregoing Article, what the Spaniards say of him.

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