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ST EUSEBIUS, POPE - 17 AUGUST

 

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SAINT EUSEBIUS, POPE 


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Pope St Eusebius was successor of Marcellus, 309 or 310. The Liberian Catalogue gives his reign's duration as only four months, from April 18 to August 17, 309 or 310. 

THE EPITAPH

We learn some details of his career from an epitaph for his tomb which Pope Damasus ordered. This epitaph had come down to us through ancient transcripts. A few fragments of the original, together with a sixth-century marble copy made to replace the original, were found by De Rossi in the Papal Chapel, in the catacombs of Callistus. 

It appears from this epitaph that the grave internal dissentions caused in the Roman Church by the readmittance of the apostates (lapsi) during the persecution of Diocletian, and which had already arisen under Marcellus, continued under Eusebius. 

APOSTATES SHOULD BE READMITTED ONLY AFTER DOING PROPER PENANCE

The latter maintained the attitude of the Roman Church, adopted after the Decian persecutions (250-51), that the apostates should not be forever debarred from ecclesiastical communion, but on the other hand, should be readmitted only after doing proper penance.

This view was opposed by a faction of Christians in Rome under the leadership of one Heraclius - a party made up of apostates and their followers, who demanded immediate restoration to the body of the Church. Both Eusebius and Heraclius were exiled by Emperor Maxentius. 

Eusebius, in particular, was deported to Sicily, where he died soon after. Miltiades ascended the papal throne July 2, 311. The body of his predecessor was brought back to Rome, probably in 311. 

A MARTYR

Pope Eusebius' firm defence of ecclesiastical discipline and the banishment which he suffered therefore caused him to be venerated as a martyr, and in his epitaph Pope Damasus honours Eusebius with this title. 

(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)

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