Pope Saint Miltiades
- Also known as
- Melchiades
- Memorial
- 10 December
- Profile
- Pope during the time Constantine the Great declared tolerance for Christians in the Empire.
Counted as a martyr on many lists due to the sufferings he endured prior to the toleration decree.
May have been Pope when the Church was given the Lateran Palace which became the pope's residence and the seat of the central administration of the Church.
Saint Augustine thought highly of him, and mentioned him in his writings.
- Born
- Africa
- Papal Ascension
- 2 July 311
- Died
- 11 January 314 at Rome, Italy
- Additional Information
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Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
New Catholic Dictionary
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