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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).References
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