CANONIZED POPES,

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 195, 22 December 1876, Page 14

CANONIZED POPES,

The following are some Popes who* have been recognised as Saints or canonized by the Catholic Church. In January the feasts occur of St. Telesphorus, St. Hyginus, St. Anterus, St. Fabian, and St. MaTcellus, who all governed the Holy See during the first three centuries before the conversion of Constantino the Great secured the peace of the Church. On the 10th of January the feast of Pope St. Agatho (A.D. 682) is celebrated. In Ms Pontificate the sixth Ecumenical Council was held at Constantinople to condemn the Monothelites. In February the Church celebrates the memory of Pope St. Gregory 11. (A.D. 731) and of Pope St. Gregory X. (A.D. 1276). The former sent St. Boniface to convert the Germans, and condemned the image breakers of the East. The latter leld the fourteenth General Council, that of Lyons, in 1274. St. Thomas Aquinas died on his way to the Council, and St. Bonaventure during its sitting. In March we come across the names of St. Lucius, martyred A.D. 253, and of St. Sixtus 111. (A.D. 440); of St. Simplicius (A.D. 483); St. Gregory (A.D. 604); and St. Zachary (A.D. 752), who confirmed Pepin, the Mayor of the Palace as King of France, and ordered St. Boniface of Germany to crown him. In April St. Sixtus L, St. Anicetus, St. Soter, St. Caius, martyrs of the early ages, are remembered, as so is St. Julius I. (A..D. 352), in whose Pontificate the Synod of Sardica (A.D. 344) was held ; St. Anastasius (A.D. 401), and St. Celestine (A.D. 432), who confirmed the decrees of the Council of Ephesus, which defined the title "Mother of God" as belonging to the Blessed Virgin, and who sent St. Patrick to convert the Irish. The feast of St. Leo the Great (A.D. 461) in whose Pontificate the Council of Chalcedon was held, and who met and repulsed Attila from the gates of Borne, is also celebrated on April 11. St. Leo IX. (A.D. 1054) is another great Pope we meet with in April. In his Pontificate St. Peter Damian wrote his works on the clergy ; Lanfranc taught at Bee j Hildebrand (afterwards Pope Gregory VII.) exerts great influence, ana tn© errors of Berengarius on TransubiM&tttiation are condemned..