| Anterus | |
|---|---|
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| Papacy began | November 21, 235 |
| Papacy ended | January 3, 236 |
| Predecessor | Pontian |
| Successor | Fabian |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Anterus |
| Born |
??? ??? |
| Died |
January 3, 236 Rome, Roman Empire |
| Styles of Pope Anterus | |
| Reference style | His Holiness |
| Spoken style | Your Holiness |
| Religious style | Holy Father |
| Posthumous style | Saint |
Pope Saint Anterus was pope from November 21, 235 to January 3, 236, and succeeded Pope Pontian, who had been deported from Rome along with the antipope Hippolytus to Sardinia.
Anterus was the son of Romulus, born in Petilia Policastro.[1] He was pope for only one month and ten days,[2] and is thought to have been of Greek origin,[1] but the name could indicate that he was a freed slave.[2] He created one bishop for the city of Fondi.[1]
Martyrdom
Some scholars believe he was martyred,[1][3] because he ordered greater strictness in searching into the acts of the martyrs exactly collected by the notaries appointed by Saint Clement.[1][4] Other scholars doubt this and believe it is more likely that he died in undramatic circumstances during the persecutions of Emperor Maximinus the Thracian.[2]
Tomb
He was buried in the papal crypt of the Catacomb of Callixtus on the Appian Way[1] in Rome. The site of his sepulchre was discovered by De Rossi in 1854, with some broken remnants of the Greek epitaph engraved on the narrow oblong slab that closed his tomb[4] and only the Greek term for bishop readable.[3]
His ashes had been removed to the Church of Saint Sylvester in the Campus Martius[1] and were discovered on November 17, 1595 when Pope Clement VIII rebuilt that church.[1]
References
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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Anteros. |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 de Montor, Artaud (1911). The Lives and Times of the Popes: Including the Complete Gallery of Portraits of the Pontiffs Reproduced from Effigies Pontificum Romanorum Dominici Basae : Being a Series of Volumes Giving the History of the World During the Christian Era. New York: The Catholic Publication Society of America. pp. 49–50. OCLC 7533337. http://books.google.com/books?id=kJoYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA49&dq=petilia+policastro&lr=&ei=YElbSeKzJ4rIlQSfh6yCAg&client=firefox-a#PPA50,M1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Levillain, Philippe; O'Malley, John W. (2002). The Papacy: An Encyclopedia. London: Routledge. pp. 63, 557. ISBN 0415922305.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marucchi, Orazio; Vecchierello, Hubert (translator) (2003). Manual of Christian Archeology 1935. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 48. ISBN 0-7661-4247-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=1bLr6mMHwJ0C&pg=PA111&dq=isbn:0766142477&ei=TllbSc_ANY_QkwS8l9GFBg#PPA48,M1.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1
"Pope St. Anterus" in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.
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