Lentorama 2018: Second String Saints

Day 16 - Pope Anacletus

You know there may be issues when there's not really agreement on your name. The third pope, he's listed as both Cletus and Anacletus in historical records, and while there's general agreement they're the same person you'd like to think such agreement wouldn't be needed. There's also some minority opinion that he was actually the fourth pope, in case you needed some more ambiguity.

Also unclear is on what grounds Anacletus was actually made a saint. About all that's known about him is that he divided Rome into parishes and ordained an undetermined number of priests. His martyrdom looks to be more asserted than proven, based on the widespread persecution of Christians in the first century.  Kind of hard to believe he stayed on the calendar as long as he did.