Pope John I
Gelasius I | |
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Rank | Priest |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | 18 May 526 Ravenna, Ostrogothic Kingdom |
Sainthood | |
Feast day | 18 May |
Other popes named John |
Pope John I (
Early life
While a deacon in Rome, John is known to have been a partisan of the
Pontificate
John was very frail when he was
Emperor Justin is recorded as receiving John honorably and promised to do everything the embassy asked of him, with the exception that those converting from Arianism to Catholicism would not be "restored" (i.e., allowed to retain their place in the Catholic hierarchy as deacons, priests, or bishops).
The Liber Pontificalis credits John with making repairs to the cemetery of the martyrs Nereus and Achilleus on the Via Ardeatina, that of Felix and Adauctus, and the cemetery of Priscilla.[7]
Veneration
Pope John I is depicted in art as looking through the bars of a prison or imprisoned with a deacon and a subdeacon. He is venerated at Ravenna and in Tuscany. His feast day is 18 May, the anniversary of the day of his death (whereas it had formerly been 27 May).[8]
See also
References
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- ^ John Moorhead, "The Last Years of Theoderic", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 32 (1983), p. 113
- ^ This identification was first proposed by E.K. Rand in 1928, and recently defended by Moorhead, "Last years", p. 113
- ^ Anonymus Valesianus, 15.90; translated by J.C. Rolfe, Ammianus Marcellinus (Harvard: Loeb Classical Library, 1972), vol. 3 p. 565
- ^ Raymond Davis (translator), The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis), first edition (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1989), p. 49
- ^ Anonymus Valesianus, 15.91; translated by J.C. Rolfe, vol. 3 p. 565
- ^ Raymond Davis, The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis), p. 50
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Archived 2009-05-21 at the Wayback Machine "Pope Saint John I" (last accessed 23 October 2011)
External links
- Media related to Ioannes I at Wikimedia Commons
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- "Giovann". Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.