Pope Anterus

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Pope Saint Anterus

Papacy began	21 November 235
Papacy ended	3 January 236
Predecessor	Pontian
Successor	Fabian
Personal details
Birth name	Anterus
Born	unknown Petilia Policastro, Calabria
Died	3 January 236(236-01-03) Rome, Roman Empire
Sainthood
Feast day	3 January^[1]

Pope Anterus (Italian: Antero; died 3 January 236) was the head of the Catholic Church from 21 November 235 to his death in 236.^[2] He succeeded Pope Pontian, who had been deported from Rome to Sardinia, along with the antipope Hippolytus.

Anterus was the son of Romulus, born in Petilia Policastro,^[1] Calabria. He is thought to have been of Greek origin,^[3] and his name may indicate that he was a freed slave.^[4] He created one bishop, for the city of Fondi.^[3]

Martyrdom[edit]

Some scholars believe he was martyred,^[3]^[5] because he ordered greater strictness in searching into the acts of the martyrs, exactly collected by the notaries appointed by Pope Saint Clement I.^[3]^[6] Other scholars doubt this and believe it is more likely that he died in undramatic circumstances during the persecutions of Emperor Maximinus the Thracian.^[4]

Tomb[edit]

He was buried in the papal crypt of the Catacomb of Callixtus, on the Appian Way^[3] 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^[6] and only the Greek term for bishop readable.^[5]

His ashes had been removed to the Church of Saint Sylvester in the Campus Martius^[3] and were discovered on 17 November 1595, when Pope Clement VIII rebuilt that church.^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Pope Saint Antherus » Saints.SQPN.com
^ Shahan, Thomas (1907). "Pope St. Anterus" in The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g 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.
^ ^a ^b Levillain, Philippe; O'Malley, John W. (2002). The Papacy: An Encyclopedia. London: Routledge. pp. 63, 557. ISBN 0-415-92230-5.
^ ^a ^b Marucchi, Orazio; Vecchierello, Hubert (translator) (2003). Manual of Christian Archeology 1935. Kessinger Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 0-7661-4247-7.
^ ^a ^b "Pope St. Anterus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.

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