Burchard
Martyrological notice
At Wirtzburge, of St. Burchard, the first bishop of that city.
The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 11, October, Pt. 1 · S. Burchard, B. of WUrsburg ; a.d. 754.
S. Burchard, B. of WUrsburg ; a.d. 754.
S. Cosmas, B. ofMajuma in Palestine; a.d. 780,
S. Dominic Loricatus, C. at San Severino; a.d. 1060.
S. CALLIXTUS, POPE M.
( a . d . 222.)
NFORTUNATELY we have an account of the life of S. Callixtus from one side only, from the pen of a zealous antagonist, probably S. Hippoly- tus, Bishop of Portus.
Pope S. Zephyrinus, who sat in the throne of S. Peter from a . d . 202 to a . d . 219, was a pious but unlearned and feeble-minded pontiff, desirous of doing what was right, and of upholding orthodox doctrine, but profoundly ignorant of theology, and therefore embracing adverse tenets with all the zeal of which an irresolute mind was capable. He was at one time inclined to favour Noetianism, at another Sabel-
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Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Herbipoli, in Germania, sancti Burchardi, qui fuit primus illius civitatis Episcopus.