ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 10th of January WELCOME! SAINT AGATHO, POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Agatho, a Sicilian by birth, was remarkable for his charity and benevolence, a profound humility, and an engaging sweetness of temper. Having been several years treasurer of the church of Rome, he succeeded Domnus in the pontificate in 679. HE BECAME POPE IN A D. 679 He presided by his three legates in the sixth general council and third of Constantinople, in 680, in the reign of the pious emperor Constantine Pogonatus, against the Monothelite heresy, which he confuted in a learned letter to that emperor, by the tradition of the apostolic church of Rome: "acknowledged," says he, "by the whole Catholic church, to be the mother and mistress of all other churches, and to derive her superior authority from St Peter, the prince of the apostles, to whom Christ committed his whole flock, with a promise that his faith should never fail." A RULE...