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A native of Rome, Anastasius (d. 401) succeeded pope St. Siricius in late November 399. His brief pontificate is remembered chiefly for his actions in the Origenist controversy, in which he 1) convened a synod that condemned Origen's positions that had already been condemned in Alexandria and 2) wrote to St. Simplicianus of Milan in an attempt to obtain the north Italian bishops' co-operation in this regard, the Latin translation of Origen's _Per¨¬ Arch¨n_ having been written by the north Italian Rufinus of Aquileia, but 3) took no action against Rufinus himself. Anastasius also declined to authorize the church of Carthage to accept Donatist clergy into its ranks. He was buried in the above-ground portion of the cemetery of Pontianus; the seventh-century _Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae_ records his mausoleum there. Today (19. December) is his _dies natalis_ and his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology.
Some period-pertinent images of pope St. Anastasius I:
a) as depicted (right margin, upper image; lower image: pope St. Innocent I) 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. 83r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55002483j/f173.item.zoom
b) as depicted (right margin at top) in a hand-colored woodcut in the Beloit College copy of Hartmann Schedel's late fifteenth-century _Weltchronik_ (_Nuremberg Chronicle_; 1493) at fol. CXXXIIIv:
https://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/book/6th_age/left_page/37%20(Folio%20CXXXIIIv).pdf
Best,
John Dillon
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