23 February 2010

Lentorama 2010: Two Millennia of Pointy Hats

Day 6: St. Sixtus II (257-258)

There are two major facts I could figure out about this Sixtus - he reconciled with orthodox churches in Asia and Africa after a dispute over re-baptizing heretics threatened to end relations completely, and he was martyred by beheading during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Valerian. Care to guess which one caught my eye?

(It also appears that this Sixtus was often confused with a writer and philosopher of the same name, though that's not so interesting.)

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