Rufus of Metz was, according to some sources,

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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

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. In the view of the ''

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'' 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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