Pope Saint Antherus

Also known as

• Anteros
• Anterus

Memorial

• 3 January

Profile

Son of Romulus. His family seems to have orginally been from Greece. Served as 19th Pope for about six weeks. Started the Vatican library to preserve documents concerning the early martyrs. Martyred in the persecutions of Maximus Thrax when he refused to relinquish court records of the persecutions.

Born

• Petilia Policastro, Italy

Papal Ascension

• 21 November 235

Died

• martyred 3 January 236
• buried in the catacombs at the Cemetery of Saint Callistus, Rome, the first pope buried in the papal crypt
• relics re-discovered in 1854

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Lives of the Saints II, by Father Thomas J Donaghy
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Pope Saint Antherus”. Saints.SQPN.com. 3 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/pope-saint-antherus/>