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Evaristus (d. ca. 109) appears in the early succession lists of the bishops of Rome as the fourth bishop (after Linus, Anacletus [actually, Anencletus], and Clement I, the latter two of whom are sometimes presented in reverse order). The so-called Liberian Catalogue gives his name as Aristus. He will have become bishop in about the year 100. Nothing certain is known about him. The _Liber Pontificalis_ provides various details, all suspect. Later tradition, maintained in the Roman Martyrology until its revision of 2001 (when Evaristus' commemoration was moved to today from 26. October), considered him a martyr under Hadrian.
Some period-pertinent images of pope St. Evaristus:
a) as depicted (right margin, lower image) in a pen-and-ink drawing in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of Neapolitan origin of Paulinus of Venice, _Chronologia magna_ (after 1329; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 4939, fol. 64r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55002483j/f135.item.zoom
b) as depicted by Sandro Botticelli and workshop in an originally late fifteenth-century fresco (1481 or 1482); later overpainting) in the Sistine Chapel:
1) in color but terribly reduced:
http://tinyurl.com/z4clarv
2) detail view (grayscale):
http://catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/foto/80000/40400/40148.jpg
c) as depicted in an historiated initial "E" in a late fifteenth-century Roman breviary of French origin (after 1482; Clermont-Ferrand, Bibliothèque du patrimoine, ms. 69, fol. 590r):
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht4/IRHT_081412-p.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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