This event sowed the seeds of conflict which erupted in the dispute between Rufinus and John against Jerome and Epiphanius.
Soon afterwards, the emperor began to favour Rufinus, then magister officiorum, which angered Promotus and indeed they had a fist-fight in public.
In 841, however, the Byzantine army reconquered Bari, and in 844 Saint Angelarius, Bishop of Canosa, then in ruins, brought to Bari the relics of Saint Rufinus, Saint Memorus, and Saint Sabinus, which he had rescued from the ruins.
Saints Rufinus, eleven saints named Rufinus in Roman Martyrology
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Tyrannius Rufinus (c. 340–410), Roman monk, historian, and translator
Vallarsi also assisted Scipio Maffei in his revision of the Maurist edition of St. Hilary (Verona, 1730) and brought out an incomplete edition of the works of Rufinus (Verona, 1745).
He left a promising ecclesiastical career in Constantinople, traveled to Jerusalem, and there in 383 became a monk at the monastery of Rufinus and Melania the Elder.
According to the 4th-century historian Rufinus (x.9), who cites Frumentius' brother Edesius as his authority, as children (ca. 316) Frumentius and Edesius accompanied their uncle Meropius from their birthplace of Tyre (in present-day Lebanon) on a voyage to Ethiopia.
Because the writings of Sabellius were destroyed it is hard to know if he did actually believe in Patripassianism but one early version of the Apostles' Creed, recorded by Rufinus, explicitly states that the Father is 'impassible.'
Promotus had two sons who were raised with the emperors children, who in revenge for their father's murder helped Eutropius thwart Rufinus' plan to marry his daughter to the emperor Arcadius.
In his polemic with Rufinus ("Apolog. adv. Rufinum", III, xx), St. Jerome refers to the archives (chartarium) of the Roman Church, where the letter of Pope Anastasius (399-401) on the controversy over the doctrines of Origen was preserved.