ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 28th of June WELCOME! SAINT PAUL I., POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Saint Paul, Pope (757-67) - his date of birth is unknown; he died at Rome, June 28, 767. He was a brother of Stephen II . They had been educated for the priesthood at the Lateran palace. Stephen entrusted his brother, who approved of the pope’s course in respect to King Pepin, with many important ecclesiastical affairs, among others with the restoration to the Roman States of the cities which had been seized by the Lombard Kings Aistulf and Desiderius; these cities Desiderius promised to give up. PAUL WAS WITH HIS DYING BROTHER While Paul was with his dying brother at the Lateran, a party of the Romans gathered in the house of Archdeacon Theophylact in order to secure the latter’s succession to the papal see. However, immediately after the burial of Stephen (died April 26, 757), Paul was elected by a large majority, and rec...