Everything about Saint Fabian totally explained
Pope Saint Fabian was
Pope, or
Bishop of Rome, from January
236 to
January 20,
250, succeeding
Pope Anterus.
Eusebius (
Church History, VI. 29) relates how the
Christians, having assembled in
Rome to elect a new
bishop, saw a dove alight upon the head of Fabian, a
layman and stranger to the city, who was thus marked out for this dignity, and was at once proclaimed bishop by acclamation, although there were several famous men among the candidates for the vacant position.
He is said to have baptized the emperor
Philip and his son, to have done some building in the catacombs, to have improved the organization of the church in Rome, and to have appointed officials to register the deeds of the martyrs.
According to "later accounts, more or less trustworthy" according to the
Catholic Encyclopedia he sent out the "apostles to the Gauls" to Christianize
Gaul after the persecutions under Emperor
Decius had all but dissolved the small Christian communities. Fabian sent out seven bishops from
Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel:
Gatien to
Tours,
Trophimus to
Arles,
Paul to
Narbonne,
Saturnin to
Toulouse,
Denis to
Paris,
Austromoine to
Clermont, and
Martial to Limoges. He also had the bodies of
Hippolytus of Rome and
Pope Pontian brought from
Sardinia to Rome. He was made a martyr during the persecution of Christians under Emperor Decius, one of the first to die then, on
January 20,
250, and was buried in the catacomb of
Callixtus. The Greek inscription on his tomb has survived.
Prayer
Pope Saint Fabian, it's so easy to believe that peace means a life without conflict or suffering. Help us to see that the only true peace is the peace Christ brings. Never let us as a Church or as individual Christians choose to deny our beliefs simply to avoid an unpleasant situation. Amen
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