Xystus
Life and witness
At Rome, of St. Xystus, pope, the third of that name, and confessor.
Baring-Gould: March · S. XYSTUS OR SIXTUS, POPE
Saint Sixtus III. was a native of Rome. He succeeded Celestin I., in 432, on the Papal throne. He laboured zealously to extinguish the Pelagian and Nestorian heresies, and exhibited great joy at the reconciliation between S. Cyril of Alexandria, and John, patriarch of Antioch. Some epistles and some religious poems attributed to him exist. He built and adorned many churches in Rome, and died August 18th, 440; and was succeeded by S. Leo the Great.
Biographical overview
Xystus has several meanings: Xystus, a Greek architectural term denoting the covered portico of a gymnasium Xystus, another spelling for the Roman name Sixtus Pope Xystus I Pope Xystus II Pope Xystus III Pope Xystus IV Xystus, a Greek student of Pythagoreanism, author of the Sentences of Sextus Xystus, a taxonomic synonym of Alloxysta, a genus of wasps Xystus (weevil), a genus of beetles in the tribe Apostasimerini