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16 September formerly 14 September
Worked to maintain unity in a time of schism and apostasy. Fought Novatianism and called a synod of bishops to confirm him as rightful pontiff, as opposed to the anti-pope Novatian. Had the support of Saint Cyprian and Saint Dionysius. He welcomed back those who had apostacized during the persecutions of Decius; the documents that settled this matter prove the final authority of the Pope. Exiled by Roman authorities to punish Christians in general, who were said to have provoked the gods to send plague against Rome. Martyr.
A document from Cornelius shows the size of the Church in Rome in his papacy: 46 priests, 7 deacons, 7 subdeacons, approximately 50,000 Christians.
martyred in 253 buried at the cemetery of Saint Callistus at Rome
against earache against epilepsy against fever against twitching cattle domestic animals earache sufferers epileptics Kornelimünster, Germany
pope holding a battle horn or cow's horn pope with a cow nearby
Catholic Online New Catholic Dictionary Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson