Saint Antherus
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- Also known as
- Anterus
- Memorial
- 3 January
- Profile
- 19th Pope.
Started the Vatican library to preserve documents concerning the early martyrs.
Martyred for when he refused to relinquish court records of the persecutions.
- Born
- Greek
- 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 rediscovered in 1854
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Print References
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Lives of the Saints II, by Father Thomas J Donaghy
New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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