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Pope Saint Pius I (died c. 154) was the [1] according to the Annuario Pontificio. His dates are listed as 142 or 146 to 157 or 161, respectively.[2]
Pius is believed to have been born at Aquileia, in Northern Italy, during the late 1st century.[3] His father was called "Rufinus", who was also said to be of Aquileia according to the Liber Pontificalis.[4] Pius was of Illyrian origin.[5]
It is stated in the 2nd century Muratorian Canon[6] as well as in the Liberian Catalogue,[7] that he was the brother of Hermas, author of the text known as The Shepherd of Hermas.
The writer of the later text identifies himself as a former slave. This has led to speculation that both Hermas and Pius were freedmen.
St Pius I governed the Church in the middle of the 2nd century during the reigns of the Emperors [1] He decreed that Easter should only be kept on a Sunday. Although being credited with ordering the publication of the Liber Pontificalis,[9] compilation of that document was not started before the beginning of the 6th century.[10] He is said to have built one of the oldest churches in Rome, Santa Pudenziana.
St Pius I endured many hardships during his reign. The fact that Saint Justin taught Christian doctrine in Rome during the pontificate of St Pius I and that the heretics Valentinus, Cerdon, and Marcion visited Rome at the same time, is an argument for the primacy of the Roman See during the 2nd century.[9] Pope Pius I opposed the Valentinians and Gnostics under Marcion, whom he excommunicated.[11]
There is some conjecture that he was a martyr in Rome, a conjecture that entered earlier editions of the Breviary. The study that had produced the 1969 revision of the General Roman Calendar stated that there were no grounds for his consideration as a martyr,[12] and he is not presented as such in the Roman Martyrology.[13]
Pius I's feast day is 11 July. In the Tridentine Calendar it was given the rank of "Simple" and celebrated as the feast of a martyr. The rank of the feast was reduced to a Commemoration in the 1955 General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII and the General Roman Calendar of 1960. Though no longer mentioned in the General Roman Calendar, Saint Pius I may now, according to the rules in the present-day Roman Missal, be celebrated everywhere on his feast day as a Memorial, unless in some locality an obligatory celebration is assigned to that day.[14]
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