Flavius Valila Theodosius or Theodobius (died before 483) was a

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and military commander who held the office of ''

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'' in the west in 471. Valila, who was of Gothic origin, endowed a Christian church on his property near

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. At his death, he bequeathed the 4th century

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of Junius Annius Bassus (

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of 331) on the

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to the Church, and

Pope Simplicius Pope Simplicius (died 2 or 10 March 483) was the bishop of Rome from 468 to his death on 10 March 483. He combated the Eutychian heresy, ended the practice of consecrating bishops only in December, and sought to offset the effects of Germanic i ...

dedicated it to St. Andrew, which later came to be known as

Sant'Andrea Catabarbara Sant'Andrea Catabarbara was a church in Rome, located on what is now the site of the Pontifical Oriental Institute on Via Napoleone III, in the Esquilino district. It was first called ''Catabarbara'' or ''Cata Barbara Patricia'' in the eighth cent ...

.Lizzi Testa.

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References

*Christie, Neil, ''From Constantine to Charlemagne: an archaeology of Italy, AD 300-800'', Ashgate Publishing, 2006, , p. 302. *Lee, A.D., ''Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity'', Routledge, , p. 232. *Lizzi Testa, Rita, ''Senatori, popolo, papi'', Edipuglia, 2004, , p. 99. * Jones, A.H.M., and J.R. Martindale, "Valila", ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', Vol II Western Roman generals Senators of the Roman Empire 5th-century deaths 5th-century Romans Year of birth unknown {{AncientRome-bio-stub