Paschal I
Birth name	Paschal Massimi, son of Bonosus
Papacy began	January 25, 817
Papacy ended	February 11, 824
Predecessor	Stephen IV
Successor	Eugene II
Born	??? Rome, Italy
Died	February 11, 824 Rome, Italy

Saint Paschal I was pope from 817 to February 11, 824. Image File history File links Apsis_-_Paschalis_I..gif Basilica di Santa Prassede, Roma: Apsis mosaic - Pope Paschalis I. Licence: Public Domain File links The following pages link to this file: Pope Paschal I Santa Prassede ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events Louis the Pious divides his empire among his sons. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events Iñigo Arista revolts against the Franks and establishes the kingdom of Navarre (approximate date). ... Stephen V, Pope from June 816-January 817, succeeded Leo III, whose policy he continued. ... Eugene II, (or Eugenius), pope (824-827) was a native of Rome and was chosen to succeed Paschal I. Another candidate, Zinzinnus, was proposed by the plebeian faction, and the presence of Lothar, son of the Frankish emperor Louis the Pious was necessary in order to maintain the authority of... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events Iñigo Arista revolts against the Franks and establishes the kingdom of Navarre (approximate date). ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... The Pope (from Greek: pappas, father; from Latin: papa, Papa, father) is the head of the Catholic Church. ... Events Louis the Pious divides his empire among his sons. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events Iñigo Arista revolts against the Franks and establishes the kingdom of Navarre (approximate date). ...

A native of Rome, he was raised to the pontificate by the acclamation of the clergy, shortly after the death of Pope Stephen V, and before the sanction of the emperor Louis the Pious had been obtained - a circumstance for which it was one of his first cares to apologize. His relations with the imperial house, however, never became cordial; and he was also unsuccessful in winning the sympathy of the Roman nobles. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Stephen V, Pope from June 816-January 817, succeeded Leo III, whose policy he continued. ... Louis the Pious, contemporary depiction from 826 as a miles Christi (soldier of Christ), with a poem of Rabanus Maurus overlaid. ...

In 822, he gave the legateship over the North (Scandinavia) to Ebbo, archbishop of Rheims. He licensed him to preach to the Danes, though Ebbo failed in three different attempts to convert them. Only later did Saint Ansgar succeed there. Events Abd-ar-rahman II becomes ruler of Umayyad Spain. ... Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe named after the Scandinavian Peninsula. ... Saint Mark from the Ebbo Gospels. ... The Archdiocese of Reims was founded (as a diocese) around 250 by St. ... Ansgar, etching by Hugo Hamilton (1830) Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, (September 8?, 801–February 3, 865) was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. ...

He died in Rome while the imperial commissioners were investigating the circumstances under which two papal officials that were testifying against the pope had been seized at the Lateran, blinded and afterwards beheaded; Paschal had shielded the murderers but denied all personal complicity in their crime. The Roman people refused him the honour of burial within the church of St Peter, but he now holds a place in the Roman calendar (May 16). Late Baroque façade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, completed after a competition for the design by Alessandro Galilei in 1735 Lateran and Laterano are the shared names of several architectural projects throughout Rome and Vatican City. ... The Basilica of Saint Peter from Castel SantAngelo. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ...

The pope, with the squared halo of the living peoples, is presenting a model of the basilica to Christ (outside of the picture). Halo around the sun at the South Pole (NOAA) A halo (also known as a nimbus or Gloriole) is a ring of light that surrounds an object. ...

The church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere was restored and Santa Maria in Domnica rebuilt by him; he also built the basilica of Santa Prassede. Facade of Santa Cecilia, a 1725 project by Ferdinando Fuga, with the 12th century belltower. ... Inside of Santa Prassede. ...

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References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.