ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 22nd of April WELCOME! SAINT AGAPETUS I., POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index (Also Agapitus) Reigned 535-536. Date of birth uncertain; he died April 22, 536. He was the son of Gordianus, a Roman priest who had been slain during the riots in the days of Pope Symmachus. Saint Agapetus' first official act was to burn in the presence of the assembled clergy the anathema which Boniface II had pronounced against the latter’s rival Dioscurus and had ordered to be preserved in the Roman archives. HE CONFIRMED THE DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF CARTHAGE He confirmed the decrees of the council held at Carthage, after the liberation of Africa from the Vandal yoke, according to which converts from Arianism were declared ineligible to Holy Orders and those already ordained were merely admitted to lay communion. He accepted an appeal from Contumeliosus, Bishop of Riez, whom a council at Marseilles had condemned for immorality, and he or...