Pope Saint Eleuterus
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- Also known as
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Eleuterius
Eleutherius
Eleutheros
- Memorial
- 26 May
- Profile
- Son of Habundius.
Deacon under Pope Anicetus and Pope Saint Soter.
Chosen 13th Pope c.174.
Declared opposition to Gnostics and the Montanists.
Sent Fugatius and Damjan to convert the Britons.
Abolished some Jewish dietary customs for Christians.
- Born
- at Nicopolis, Epirus, Greece
- Papal Ascension
- c.174
- Died
- martyred in 189 in Rome, Italy;
buried in the Vatican near Saint Peter the Apostle
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia
Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Google Directory
Kirken i Norge norwegian
New Catholic Dictionary
The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Brunson
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