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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original message----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=dkv250@sbcglobal.net href="mailto:dkv250@sbcglobal.net">Kathy Varner</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=loch-ruadh@ansteorra.org
href="mailto:loch-ruadh@ansteorra.org">Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of
Ansteorra, SCA,Inc.</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:35
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Loch-Ruadh] Today in History
January 11</DIV>
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<DIV>0314 St Militiades ends his reign as Catholic Pope</DIV>
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<DIV>So he didn't die, he just ascended in sainthood?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have no idea why but I thought this an
interesting question also so I hunted the answer while checking my e-mail this
morning. It is: <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The year of his birth is not
known; he was elected pope in either 310 or 311; died 10 or 11 January, 314 (<A
href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10318a.htm">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10318a.htm</A>)
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I also
discovered something I found interesting: </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2><FONT
color=#009d00>T</FONT>hree of the earliest Popes of the Roman Catholic Church
were black. Saint Gelasius I, Pope from 492-496, was one of the three black
Popes. The others were Saints Victor I and Militiades. St. Gelasius was born in
Rome of African parents and was a member of the Roman clergy from his youth. He
laid down several rules for the clergy. One of them was that the revenues of the
church must be divided into four parts: one for the bishops, one for the clergy,
one for the poor and one to support the churches and divine services. Many
Catholics believed that Holy Communion should not include the drinking of wine,
because wine is sinful. St. Gelasius compromised on that controversy by allowing
the Eucharist to be administered with or without wine. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2> Saint Militiades, Pope from 311-314, was
sometimes called Melchiades. His name is also spelled Melziadus. St. Militiades
was born in Africa. Because of an anti-pope campaign between 310-311, no attempt
was made by the church to elect another pope until Roman Emperor Gelevius of the
East issued an edict of Toleration in 311. Gelevius was cruelly persecuting the
Eastern Christians, until he was stricken with a disease. </FONT>
<P><FONT size=2> He, a pagan, asked the prayers of the
Christians and thus stopped the persecutions. It was after issuing his decree of
Toleration that St. Militiades, a black from Africa, was elected thirty-seventh
Pope. With the persecutions ended under Emperor Constantine, St. Pope Militiades
guided the church towards peace. He decreed that no Christian should fast on the
Lord’s day on the fifth day of the week, since the pagans fasted on those days.
Though he had not been baptized, Constantine favored Christianity. His wife gave
the Pope the Lateran Palace in Rome, making Militiades the first Pope to have an
official residence. St. Militiades appears to have been the Pope who started
construction of the Lateran Basilica. He was also the last Pope to be buried in
a catacomb. </FONT>
<P><FONT size=2> The last Pope of the second Century was
Saint Victor I, Pope from 189-199. St. Victor was born in Africa and had a Latin
name as most Africans did at that time. He was a man of dominating personality.
St. Victor ordered all churches to celebrate Easter on the Sunday following the
fourteenth day of the vernal equinox. All the churches obeyed except those in
Asia Minor. St. Victor threatened to excommunicate all of them. St. Irenaeus,
Bishop of Lyon, pleaded with the Pope to be less harsh for the sake of church
unity. St. Victor relented. Afterwards, the practice of celebrating Easter on
Sunday spread throughout the East. </FONT>
<P><FONT size=2> Trivia: Insense, vestments and the
Pope’s hats are African in origin. Like Christ, all drawings and paintings are
apocryphal (not authentic). The existing ones are all modeled to resemble St.
Peter, founder of the Catholic Church.</FONT></P></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>information from: <A
href="https://newcommunity.org/clarion/dec99/articles/p15-1.html">https://newcommunity.org/clarion/dec99/articles/p15-1.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Magdalia/Pook</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(who is now going to go to bed... nighty
night)</FONT></DIV>
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