ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 20th of December
THEODORE II., POPE
He was son of Photius. His pontificate lasted only twenty days; neither the date of his birth nor of his accession to the papacy is known; it is probable that he was pope during December 897.
He reinstated in synod the clerics who had been degraded by Stephen (VI) VII, ordered the burning of the acts of resignation which they had been forced to tender, and formally recognised the validity of the orders conferred by Pope Formosus.
He caused the body of the last-named pope, which had been thrown into the Tiber and cast ashore by a flood, to be reburied in St Peter's.
By his contemporary Frodoard he is said to have been beloved by the clergy, to have himself loved and promoted peace, and to have been temperate, and chaste, and charitable to the poor.
[He died December 20, 897.]
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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