ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 12th of May WELCOME! SYLVESTER II., POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index He reigned from 999 to 1003; also called Gerbert. Born at or near Aurillac, Auvergne, France, about 940 - 950, of humble parents, he died at Rome, May 12, 1003. Gerbert entered the service of the Church and received his first training in the Monastery of Aurillac. He was then taken by a Spanish count to Spain, where he studied at Barcelona and also under Arabian teachers at Cordova and Seville, giving much attention to mathematics and the natural sciences, in which he made unu Bishop Hatto of Vich, who had been his chief theological instructor, and John XIII recommended him to the Emperor Otto I, who sent him to Reims to the archdeacon Gerannus. There he was soon appointed a teacher in the cathedral school by Archbishop Adalbero. He undertook journeys of considerable length, e.g., to Ravenna, where he held a disputation with Ortricus of Magdeb...