Thursday, August 13, 2026

Optional

Sts Pontian and Hippolytus

(d. c. 235) Pope and antipope — rivals reconciled in the mines of Sardinia, where both were condemned under Maximinus. Pontian resigned his see, the first pope to abdicate; Hippolytus, the brilliant schismatic, returned …

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