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St. Pontain - (230-235)

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Martyred Italian. Pontian was put to death at Spoleto, Italy, during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The details of his death are uncertain owing to ... Read More

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Dates of birth and death unknown. The "Liber Pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, I, 145) gives Rome as his native city and calls his father Calpurnius. With him begins the brief chronicle of the Roman bishops of the third century, of which the author of the Liberian Catalogue of the Read More


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