ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 24th of September
LIBERIUS, POPE
He reigned 352-66. Pope Julius died on April 12, according to the "Liberian Catalogue", and Liberius was consecrated on May 22. As this was not a Sunday, May 17 was probably the day. Of his previous life nothing is known save that he was a Roman deacon.
An epitaph preserved in a copy by a seventh-century pilgrim is attributed to Liberius by De Rossi, followed by many critics, including Duchesne. The principal points in it are that the pope confirmed the Nicene Faith in a council, and died in exile for the Faith, unless we render "a martyr by exile".
[Pope Liberius died September 24, 366.]
The epitaph is attributed by Funk to St. Martin I. De Rossi, however, declared that no epigraphist could doubt that the verses are of the fourth and not the seventh century.
[He is not mentioned as a saint in the Roman Martyrology.¹]
¹ From Wikipedia
(Main text from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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