Posted on 12/31/2002 4:50:33 PM PST by Lady In Blue
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Pope Saint Sylvester was the son of a Roman by the name of Rufinus. He succeeded Pope Miltiades in AD 314, the year after the Edict of Milan giving freedom to Christianity. Most of his actions involve his relationship with Emperor Constantine. Constantine suffered from leprosy, and after baptism at the hands of Sylvester the emperor was cured. With this miracle wrought at the hands of the Pope, the emperor gave many gifts to the Church including the provinces of Italy that until the 19th century made up the Papal States. Many large Roman buildings were given which became churches. Some consider the account of his baptism a fabrication, but there is no doubt Sylvester had a great effect in the completion of Constantine's conversion, and records that distant are often difficult to uphold or refute.
Sylvester soon had legates in his place involved in two contentious heresies present at the time. Donatism was condemned at a synod of Arles, and Nicaea as the first ecuminical council condemned Arianism and formulated the Nicene Creed. The Lateran was given to the pope, and became the cathedra of the Pope as the cathedral of Rome.
In AD 330 Constantine moved his capital to Constantinople, but by then had built St. Peter's, church of the Holy Cross, and St. Lawrence outside the walls. Sylvester also built himself the church of Priscilla on the Via Salaria. Pope Saint Sylvester was buried in that church after his death in AD 335, but it was translated to the church of St. Sylvester in capite in AD 761.
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Today is the Feast of Pope St. Sylvester I.
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Five prayers in aid for the Holy Souls of purgatory, for Tuesday:
Lord God almighty, I beseech Thee, by the precious Blood which Thy divine Son Jesus shed in His bitter crowning with thorns, deliver the souls in prugatory, and in particular, amongst them all, deliver that one which would be the last to issue from those pains, that it tarry not so long a time before it comes to praise Thee in Thy glory and bless Thee forever. Amen. Our Father... Hail Mary... [500 days]
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. [300 days, for the Holy Souls only]
And the De Profundis for the faithfully departed (Psalm 129):
Out of the depths I cry to Thee, O Lord! Lord hear my voice. Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. If Thou, O Lord, shalt mark our iniquities: O Lord, who shall stand it? For with Thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of Thy law I have waited for Thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on His Word, my soul hath hoped in the Lord. From the morning watch even unto night, let Israel hope in the Lord. Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with Him plentious redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all His iniquities. [3 years]
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In addition to each individual prayer's indulgence, the following is given by a decree of Pius IX on January 5th, 1849: "The faithful who devoutly offer prayers at any season of the year in intercession for the souls of the faithful departed, with the intention of so continuing for seven OR nine successive days, may obtain an indulgence of 3 years once each day."
A plenary indulgence is given with confession and Communion within the seven or nine days of offered prayer.
Imprimatur: Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman; New York; Dec 12, 1962.
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Pope St. Sylvester I (314-335)
Date of birth unknown; d. 31 December, 335. According to the "Liber pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, I, 170) he was the son of a Roman named Rufinus; the legendary "Vita beati Sylvestri" calls his mother Justa. After the death of Miltiades (Melchiades), Sylvester was made Bishop of Rome and occupied this position twenty-one years. This was the era of Constantine the Great, when the public position of the Church so greatly improved, a change which must certainly have been very noticeable at Rome; it is consequently to be regretted that there is so little authoritative information concerning Sylvester's pontificate. At an early date legend brings him into close relationship wtih the first Christian emperor, but in a way that is contrary to historical fact. These legends were introduced especially into the "Vita beati Sylvestri" (Duchesne, loc. cit., Introd., cix sq.) which appeared in the East and has been preserved in Greek, Syriac, and Latin in the "Constitutum Sylvestri"–an apocryphal account of an alleged Roman council which belongs to the Symmachian forgeries and appeared between 501 and 508, and also in the "Donatio Constantini". The accounts given in all these writings concerning the persecution of Sylvester, the healing and baptism of Constantine, the emperor's gift to the pope, the rights granted to the latter, and the council of 275 bishops at Rome, are entirely legendary.
You couldn't even be polite, could you? Lady In Blue makes one mistake out of all the saint threads she posts, and there you are to spew your crap. Trolling for mistakes so you can rub it in? I could follow you around all day point out the mistakes of your sola scriptura yopios, but don't have the faintest interest in your dull religion.
You should stop celebrating Christmas on Dec 25, as that date was set by Catholic church...and in fact you should stop saying the word "Christmas" as it means "Christ's Mass." Oh! Can't have that...it means something Catholic!
Go ahead and flag a hundred of your buddies to come and see you tell me off! I couldn't care less. Hater!
I trust all is weel with you. Many blessings and happy tidings to you this New Year's day. May the coming year be a spiritual one for you.
You couldn't even be polite, could you? Lady In Blue makes one mistake out of all the saint threads she posts, and there you are to spew your crap. Trolling for mistakes so you can rub it in?
If I trolled for "mistakes" I would have time for nothing else.
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I could follow you around all day point out the mistakes of your sola scriptura yopios, but don't have the faintest interest in your dull religion.
Big mouth. Big talk. And, nothing! Be my guest, you phoney. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You should stop celebrating Christmas on Dec 25, as that date was set by Catholic church...and in fact you should stop saying the word "Christmas" as it means "Christ's Mass." Oh! Can't have that...it means something Catholic!
I don't celebrate Christmas, and I am catholic. Holy catholic.
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Go ahead and flag a hundred of your buddies to come and see you tell me off! I couldn't care less. Hater!
Go ahead and flag a hundred of your buddies to come and see you tell me off! I couldn't care less. HaterIdiot!!
Happy new year!
BTTT on 12-31-04, Optional Feast of St. Sylvester!
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December 31, 2004
 St. Sylvester I
(d. 335)
When you think of this pope, you think of the Edict of Milan, the emergence of the Church from the catacombs, the building of the great basilicas, Saint John Lateran, Saint Peter’s and others, the Council of Nicaea and other critical events. But for the most part, these events were planned or brought about by Emperor Constantine. A great store of legends has grown up around the man who was pope at this most important time, but very little can be established historically. We know for sure that his papacy lasted from 314 until his death in 335. Reading between the lines of history, we are assured that only a very strong and wise man could have preserved the essential independence of the Church in the face of the overpowering figure of the Emperor Constantine. The bishops in general remained loyal to the Holy See and at times expressed apologies to Sylvester for undertaking important ecclesiastical projects at the urging of Constantine. Quote:
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