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 | | Reference style | His Holiness | | Spoken style | Your Holiness | | Religious style | Holy Father | | Posthumous style | Saint | Pope Callixtus I (also Callistus I) was pope for a period of five years, from about 217 to about 222, during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. Image File history File links Emblem_of_the_Papacy. ...
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The Acta of Callixtus are imaginary (CE "Pope St Callistus I"). His contemporary and enemy, the author of Philosophumena (probably the Hippolytus) relates that when Callixtus, as a young slave was put in charge of a bank by his master, Carpophorus, he lost the money deposited by other Christians. Callixtus then fled from Rome, but was caught near Portus. According to the tale, Callixtus jumped overboard to avoid capture, but was rescued and taken back to his master. He was released at the request of the creditors, who hoped he might be able to recover some of the money, but was rearrested for fighting in a synagogue when he tried to borrow or collect debts from some Jews. Denounced as a Christian, Callixtus was sentenced to work in the mines of Sardinia. Finally, he was released with other Christians at the request of Marcia, a mistress of Emperor Commodus. His health was so weakened that his fellow Christians sent him to Antium to recuperate and he was given a pension by Pope Victor I. Statue of Hippolytus, 3rd century. ...
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Saint Victor I was Pope from 189 to 199 (the Vatican cites 186 or 189 to 197 or 201). ...
Callixtus was the deacon to whom Pope Zephyrinus (199-217) entrusted the burial chambers along the Appian Way, which had been completely lost and forgotten, until in 1849 they were rediscovered by the archaeologist Giovanni Battista de Rossi. In the 3rd century, nine Bishops of Rome were interred in the chamber of the Catacombs of San Callisto now called the Capella dei Papi. Pope Zephyrinus was pope from about 199 to 217. ...
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When Callixtus followed Zephyrinus as Bishop of Rome, he established the practice of the absolution of all repented sins, for which Tertullian took him to task (De Pudicitia xxi). Hippolytus and Tertullian were especially upset by the pope's admitting to communion those who had repented for murder, adultery, and fornication. In an apocryphal anecdote in the collection of imperial biographies called the Historia Augustae, the spot on which he had built an oratory was claimed by tavern keepers, but the Emperor decided that the worship of any god was better than a tavern. The story is the basis for dating the original structure of the present Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere. Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicized as Tertullian, (ca. ...
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Santa Maria in Trastevere is one of the oldest churches in Rome. ...
The Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere was a titulus of which Callixtus was the patron. The 4th-century basilica of Ss Callixti et Iuliani (Callixtus and Pope Julius I) was rebuilt in the 12th century by Pope Innocent II and rededicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The 8th-century Chiesa di San Callisto is close by, with its beginnings apparently as a shrine on the site of his martyrdom, which is attested in the 4th-century Deposition Martyri and so is likely to be historical. It is possible that Callixtus was martyred around 222, perhaps during a popular uprising, but the legend that he was thrown down a well has no historical foundation, though the church does contain an ancient well (Nyborg). Titulus of Pyramus, the cubicularius Lucius Vitellius the elder Titulus (Latin title) describes the conventional inscriptions on stone that listed the honours of an individual [1] or that identified boundaries in the Roman Empire, or that identified the subsections in, for example, Justinians Pandects. ...
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Callixtus was honored as a martyr in Todi, Italy, on August 14. He was buried in the cemetery of Calepodius on the Aurelian Way and his anniversary is given by the 4th-century Depositio Martirum (Callisti in viâ Aureliâ miliario III) and by the subsequent martyrologies on 14 October. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, his relics were translated in the 9th century to the predecessor of Santa Maria in Trastevere. Todi Todi, town and comune (township) of the Province of Perugia (Umbria). ...
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The Aurelian Way is a road built in 275 AD, during the Roman Empire. ...
Santa Maria in Trastevere is one of the oldest churches in Rome. ...
The Roman Catholic Church keeps the feast day of Pope Saint Callixtus I on October 14. October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
[edit] References
- Catholic Encyclopedia 1908: "Pope St. Callistus"
- Chris Nyborg, "San Callisto": the church
- Chris Nyborg, "Churches of Rome: Catacombe di San Callisto"
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