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Pope Saint Celestine I was
pope from
422 until
April 6,
432.
Celestine I was a
Roman and was supposed to have been a near relative of the
Roman Emperor Valentinian III. Nothing is known of his early history except that his father's name was Priscus. He is said to have lived for a time at
Milan with
St. Ambrose. The first notice, however, concerning him that's known is in a document of
Pope Innocent I, in the year
416, where he's spoken of as
Celestine the Deacon.
Various portions of the
liturgy are attributed to him, but without any certainty on the subject. Though he didn't attend personally, he sent delegates to the
Council of Ephesus in which the
Nestorians were condemned, in
431. Four letters written by him on that occasion, all dated
March 15,
431, together with a few others, to the
African bishops, to those of
Illyria, of
Thessalonica, and of
Narbonne, are extant in retranslations from the
Greek, the
Latin originals having been lost.
St. Celestine actively persecuted the
Pelagians, and was zealous for orthodoxy. He sent
Palladius to
Ireland to serve as a bishop in
431. Bishop Patricius (
Saint Patrick) continued this missionary work. Pope Celestine raged against the
Novatians in
Rome, imprisoning their bishop, and forbidding their worship. He was zealous in refusing to tolerate the smallest innovation on the constitutions of his predecessors, and is recognized by the Church as a saint.
St. Celestine died on
April 6,
432. He was buried in the cemetery of
St. Priscilla in the
Via Salaria, but his body, subsequently moved, now lies in the
Basilica di Santa Prassede.
In art, Saint Celestine is portrayed as a Pope with a dove, dragon, and flame.
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