Codice albumGBB-F-008190

Codice inventarioGBB-F-008190-0000

235 AC, ROMA, ITALY: The Pope Saint PONTIANUS (-235) 18th Vescovo di Roma, portrait engravedin XVIII century.In 235, during the persecution of Christians in the reign of the Emperor Maximinus the Thracian, Pontian was arrested and sent to the island of Sardinia. He resigned to make the election of a new pope possible. Pope Fabian had the bodies of both Pontian and Hippolytus brought back to Rome in 236 or 237, and the former buried in the papal crypt in the Catacomb of Callixtus on the Appian Way.

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