ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 6th of November JOHN XIX, POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index (He is also known as John XX.) He was enthroned in 1024 and died in 1032. After the death of the last patricius of the House of Crescentius, the counts of Tusculum seized the authority in Rome, a scion of this family was raised to the papal throne as Benedict VIII, while his brother, Romanus, exercised the temporal power in the city as consul and senator. After Benedict's death Romanus, though a layman, was elected pope between April 12 and May 10, 1024, immediately after which he received all the orders in succession, took the name of John, and sought by lavish expenditure to win the Romans to his cause. Soon after his elevation the Byzantine Emperor, Basil II, sent ambassadors to Rome to request in his name that the pope would recognise the title of oecumenical patriarch, which the patriarchs of Byzantium had assumed, thus sanctioning the latter's headship o