In a message dated 99-05-28 12:54:26 EDT, you write:
<< * John I, pope and martyr (526) - imprisoned during reign of Theodoric,
in Ravenna
>>
John I stepped out of his ecclesiastical role, "stabbed" his patron in the
back, got caught and died in prison and that makes him a saint? Some people
can be canonized for the slightest reasons. BTW, wasn't he the first pope to
change his name?
mark
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