ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 26th of April
BONIFACE VI., POPE
He was a Roman, elected in 896 by the Roman faction in a popular tumult, to succeed Formosus. He had twice incurred a sentence of deprivation of orders, as a subdeacon and as a priest.
At the Council of Rome, held by John IX in 898, his election was pronounced null. After a pontificate of fifteen days [on April 26, 896] he is said by some to have died of the gout, by others to have been forcibly ejected to make way for Stephen VI, the candidate of the Spoletan party.
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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