POPES
by Deb McCoy | Aug 16, 2019 | Popes
Alexander is reckoned the fifth pope after St. Peter. As with many persons from the early period of the Church, little is known about Alexander. The most likely scenario is that he was a Roman, some say named after his father. Legend has it that he was born at Caput...
by Deb McCoy | Aug 16, 2019 | Popes
Although Sixtus is claimed to be a pope by the writings of St. Ireneus and Eusebius, there is not good historical accuracy for that claim. Although it is known that there were bishops in Asia Minor, such as James, in Jerusalem, and Polycarp, in Smyrna,...
by Deb McCoy | Aug 16, 2019 | Popes
We are all familiar with the fact that St Peter was married before he was called by Jesus to become an apostle. The Gospel speaks about Peter’s mother-in-law being quite sick and Jesus coming to the house where he cured her. And then she served the men. Whether Peter...
by Deb McCoy | Aug 16, 2019 | Popes
Like the man/God he followed, Evaristus was a Jew, born in Bethlehem. His father, Juda, was of Greek origin, but lived in Bethlehem, only a few miles from the temple in Jerusalem, the goal of all good Jews. Evidently, Juda moved his family from the town, probably just...
by Deb McCoy | Aug 16, 2019 | Popes
There are many transcription and memory mistakes made when a group of people are writing to one another in the middle of a war. The “war” was the intermittent persecution of Christians from Nero to Domitian to Marcus Aurelius and onward until the early 300s. The...
by Deb McCoy | Aug 5, 2019 | Popes
JULY 29 is the feast day of St. Martha, the sister of Lazarus and Mary. However, in times past, it was also the feast day of BLESSED POPE URBAN II (+1099). Urban was born Odo, or Eudes, and kept that name up to his consecration into the papacy. He was a French man who...
