Pope Celestine I
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Pope Celestine I (
Early life and family
Celestine I was a
Pontificate
According to the Liber Pontificalis, the start of his papacy was 3 November.[3] However, Tillemont places the date at 10 September.[5] The Vatican also gives his pontificate as starting on 10 September 422.[6]
Various portions of the
originals having been lost.Celestine actively condemned the Pelagians and was zealous for Roman orthodoxy. To this end he was involved in the initiative of the Gallic bishops to send Germanus of Auxerre and Lupus of Troyes travelling to Britain in 429 to confront bishops reportedly holding Pelagian views.
He sent
- Holy Pope Celestine also expresses himself in like manner and to the same effect. For in the Epistle which he wrote to the priests of Gaul, charging them with connivance with error, in that by their silence they failed in their duty to the ancient faith, and allowed profane novelties to spring up, he says: "We are deservedly to blame if we encourage error by silence. Therefore rebuke these people. Restrain their liberty of preaching."[8]
In a letter to certain bishops of Gaul, dated 428, Celestine rebukes the adoption of special clerical garb by the clergy. He wrote: "We [the bishops and clergy] should be distinguished from the common people [plebe] by our learning, not by our clothes; by our conduct, not by our dress; by cleanness of mind, not by the care we spend upon our person".[9]
Death and legacy
Celestine died on 26 July 432. He was buried in the cemetery of
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Shea, John Gilmary. "Celestine I", Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Benziger Brothers: New York, 1894".
- ^ William Walker Rockwell (1911). "Celestine (popes)". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 5. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 599–600.
- ^ a b Loomis, Louise Ropes (1916). The Book of the Popes (Liber Pontificalis). New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 92f.
- ^ Murphy, John Francis Xavier (1908). "Pope St. Celestine I". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ Tillemont, Louis Sébastien Le Nain de (1709). Memoires pour servir a l'histoire ecclesiaástique des six premiers siécles. Paris: Charles Robustel. pp. 14:148.
- ^ Vatican Pope Celestine I
- ^ "Ecclesiastical History 7:11". Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ^ Lerins, St. Vincent of. "Commonitory 32". Retrieved 12 July 2011.
- ^ H. Thurston, "Clerical Costume," in Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4