ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 19th of July WELCOME! SAINT SYMMACHUS, POPE AND CONFESSOR ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Saint Symmachus was a native of Sardinia, and archdeacon of the Roman church under Pope Anastasius , and succeeded him in the Holy See in 498. Festus, the patrician, had been gained by Anastasius, emperor of Constantinople, and a protector of the Eutychians, to endeavour to procure from Pope Anastasius a confirmation of the Henoticon of Zeno, an imperial edict in favour of those heretics, as Theophanes relates. THEY WERE BOTH ORDAINED THE SAME DAY That pope dying, Festus, by bribes, gained several voices to raise Laurence, archpriest of St Praxedes, to the pontificate. They were both ordained the same day: Symmachus in the basilica of Constantine, and Laurence in that of our Lady. Theodoric, king of Italy, though an Arian, ordered that election should take place which was first, and made by the greater number...