Damasus
Life and witness
At Rome, of St. Damasus, pope and confessor, who condemned Apollinaris, the arch-heretic, and restored Peter, bishop of Alexandria, that had been driven out of his see. He also found out the bodies of many holy martyrs, and adorned their tombs with verses.
Little pictorial lives of the saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other approved sources : to which are added lives of the American saints : placed on the calendar for the United States by special petition of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore · December 11. -ST. DAMASUS, Pope.
December 11. -ST. DAMASUS, Pope.
C^T. Damasus was born at Rome at the beginning of ^^ the fourth century. He was archdeacon of the Roman Church in 355, when Pope Liberius was ban- ished to Berda, and followed him into exile, but after- ward returned to Rome. On the death of Liberius our Saint was chosen to succeed him. Ursinus, a competitor for the high office, incited a revolt, but the holy Pope took only such action as was becoming to the common father of the faithful. Having freed the Church of this new schism, he turned his attention to the extirpation of Arianism in the West and of Apollinarianism in the East, and for this purpose he convened several councils. He rebuilt the
Biographical overview
Damasus can refer to: Damasus (mythology), a soldier on the Trojan side in the Trojan War Damasus, king of Kourion on southern Cyprus in the 7th century BCE Damasus Scombrus, Greek orator from Tralles mentioned by Strabo Saint Pope Damasus I (305–384) Pope Damasus II (c. 1000–1048) Damasus (canonist) (12th–13th centuries); see Bartholomew of Brescia Damasus (beetle), a genus of leaf beetle in the subfamily Eumolpinae
Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Romae sancti Damasi Primi, Papae et Confessoris; qui Apollinarem haeresiarcham damnavit, et Petrum, Episcopum Alexandrinum, fugatum restituit; multa etiam sanctorum Martyrum corpora invenit, eorumque memorias versibus exornavit.