Pope Saint Adeodatus I

Also known as

• Deusdedit

Memorial

• 8 November

Profile

Son of Stephen, a subdeacon. Pope. Supported the clergy who were being repressed by the politics of the day, trying to work their vocations during rebellions in Ravenna and Naples in Italy. Worked among victims of leprosy and an earthquake in his diocese. Said to have been the first to use bullae or lead seals for pontifical documents; hence the term Papal Bull. Many old Benedictine documents describe him as a Benedictine monk, but there is no outside evidence of it, and Deusdedit was known for his support of and dependance on the secular clergy.

Born

• Rome, Italy

Papal Ascension

• 19 October 615

Died

• November 618 in Rome, Italy of natural causes
• buried in Saint Peter’s Basilica

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Encyclopedia, by Leo A Kelly
• Catholic Online
• Christ’s Faithful People
• Katherine Rabenstein
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Pope Saint Adeodatus I”. Saints.SQPN.com. 6 November 2009. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/pope-saint-adeodatus-i/>