ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 20th July BONIFACE VII ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Boniface VII, Antipope, was a Roman and son of Ferrucius; was intruded into the Chair of St Peter in 974; reinstalled 984; died July [20], 985. In June, 974, one year after the death of Emperor Otto I, Crescentius the son of Theodora and brother of John XIII, stirred up an insurrection at Rome, during which the Romans threw Benedict VI into the Castle of Sant' Angelo, and elevated as his successor the Cardinal-Deacon Franco, who took the name of Boniface VII. The imprisoned pontiff was speedily put to death by the intruder. But in little more than a month the imperial representative, Count Sicco, had taken possession of the city, and Boniface, not being able to maintain himself, robbed the treasury of the Vatican Basilica and fled to Constantinople. After an exile of nine years at Byzantium, Franco, on the death of Otto II, December 7, 983, quickly returned to Rome,...