Flavius Valila Theodosius or Theodobius (d. before 483) was a Roman senator and military commander who held the office of magister militum in the west in 471. Valila, who was Gothic origin, endowed a Christian church on his property near Tibur.[1] At his death, he bequeathed the 4th century basilica of Junius Annius Bassus (consul of 331) on the Esquiline Hill in Rome to the Church,[2] and Pope Simplicius dedicated it to St. Andrew, which later came to be known as Sant'Andrea Cata Barbara Patricia.[3]
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- Christie, Neil, From Constantine to Charlemagne: an archaeology of Italy, AD 300-800, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-85928-421-3, p. 302.
- Lee, A.D., Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-13892-2, p. 232.
- Lizzi Testa, Rita, Senatori, popolo, papi, Edipuglia, 2004, ISBN 88-7228-392-2, p. 99.
- Jones, A.H.M., and J.R. Martindale, "Valila", The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol II
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