ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 26th of May WELCOME! SAINT ELEUTHERIUS, POPE AND MARTYR ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Saint Eleutherius was by birth a Grecian, and deacon of the church of Rome under Pope Anicetus. He succeeded St Soter in the pontificate in 176, and governed the church whilst it was beaten with violent storms. THE MONTANISTS Montanus, an ambitious vain man of Moesia on the confines of Phrygia, sought to raise himself among men by pretending that the Holy Ghost spoke by his mouth, and published forged revelations. His followers afterwards advanced that he was himself the Holy Ghost, the Paraclete Spirit sent by Christ according to his promises to perfect his law. They seem at first only to have been schismatics and enthusiasts; but soon after added heresy and blasphemy, calling Montanus the Holy Ghost in the same manner that Christ is God the Son. They affected an excessive rigour, had many fasts, kept three Lents in the year, refused ...