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345–411 · monk, historian, and theologian
Also known as: Rufinus von Aquileia, Rufin von Aquileia, Rufinus Aquileiensis, Rufinus of Aquileia, Rufinus of Concordia, Руфин Аквилейский
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- Les Bénédictions des Patriarches (1968)
- A commentary on the Apostles' Creed
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- The church history of Rufinus of Aquileia, books 10 and 11 (1997)
- Diui Clementis opera quae ad hunc vsque diem extare comperta sunt cuius D. Paulus ad Philippenses scribens meminit, quique eam quae ad Hebraeos conscripta est epistolam, magno Graecorum & Latinorum consensu scripsisse fertur Rufino Torano Aquileiense interprete