Feastday: November 7
Death: 400
Bishop of Metz for nearly three decades. It is possible that he is the same Rufus of Metz who took part in the Priscillianist Controversy.
Rufus of Metz was, according to some sources, bishop of Metz for 29 years. He has been made a Catholic saint with his feast day on November 7.
In the ninth century his relics were transferred to Gau-Odernheim in Rhenish Hesse, Diocese of Mainz.
In the view of the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913, his history is legendary:
- His name was inserted at a later date in an old manuscript of the "Martyrol. Hieronym." (ed. cit., 140).
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