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Notitia altera de S. Urbano I papa

Editors' preface

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ANNO DOMINI CCXXXI.

IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD CCXXXI.

S. URBANUS I

ST URBAN I

PONTIFEX ROMANUS

ROMAN PONTIFF

NOTITIA EX LIBRO PONTIFICALI DAMASI PAPAE

NOTICE FROM THE PONTIFICAL BOOK OF POPE DAMASUS

(Mansi, Concil., I, 747, Varias lectiones ad hunc locum Libri pontificalis vide Patrologiae Latinae tom. CXXVII, col 1538, in Anastasio Bibliothecario.)

(Mansi, Councils, I, 747. For variant readings at this place of the Pontifical Book see Patrologia Latina vol. CXXVII, col. 1538, in Anastasius the Librarian.)

Urbanus natione Romanus, ex patre Pontiano, sedit annos quatuor, menses 10, dies 12. Hic

Urban, a Roman by nation, of his father Pontianus, sat four years, 10 months, 12 days. He

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Psal. CXXIX, 7.

Psalm 129 (130):7.

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Psal. XXIII, 10.

Psalm 23 (24):10.

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Rom. III, 23-26.

Romans 3:23–26.

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Psal. XXXI, 1.

Psalm 31 (32):1.

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a lapsu

[variant reading:] "from the fall"

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Joan. VIII, 11.

John 8:11.

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Rom. VI, 12-19.

Romans 6:12–19.

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Sixti sent. 171.

Sentences of Sixtus, 171.

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Roman. Correct. praeferunt verbum quaerunt participio quaerentibus.

The Roman Correctors prefer the verb quaerunt ("they seek") to the participle quaerentibus ("to those seeking").

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Rom. II, 3, 10.

Romans 2:3, 10.

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Sixti sent. 328, ex versione Rufini qui obiit an. 411.

Sentences of Sixtus, 328, from the version of Rufinus, who died in the year 411.

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Urbanus. Cum post martyrium Callisti, sedes sex diebus vacasset, 21 Octobris, anno Christi nati 226, qui est Alexandri imperatoris tertius, Urbanus patria Romanus ei substituitur. Baron. praedicto anno, num. ult. Sub hujus pontificatu Origenem Alexandrinae Ecclesiae subditum, spontaneum eunuchum ab Alexandro Hierosolymorum episcopo contra apostolorum canones ordinatum esse Demetrius Alexandrinae Ecclesiae episcopus jure meritoque conqueritur, ipsumque Origenem in laicorum ordinem redigendum, et ab exercitio presbyterii suspendendum esse, recte decrevit et admonet; postea tandem excommunicat, quod scripta quaedam deinceps ab eo vel evulgata, vel, ut ipse Origenes excusabat, suo nomine edita, multis haeresibus scaterent. Vide Baron. praedicto anno et sequentibus. SEV. BIN.

Urban. When, after the martyrdom of Callistus, the see had been vacant for six days, on 21 October, in the year 226 from the birth of Christ, the third of the emperor Alexander, Urban, a Roman by birth, was put in his place. Baronius, at the year cited, last number. Under his pontificate Demetrius, bishop of the Church of Alexandria, complains, rightly and deservedly, that Origen, a subject of the Alexandrian Church and a eunuch by his own act, had been ordained by Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem, contrary to the canons of the apostles; and he rightly decrees and gives notice that Origen himself is to be reduced to the order of laymen and suspended from the exercise of the presbyterate; afterwards he at last excommunicates him, because certain writings from then on either published by him or, as Origen himself pleaded, issued under his name, teemed with many heresies. See Baronius at the year cited and those following. Severinus Binius.

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Marc. XII.

Mark 12.

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an. 222.

Year 222.

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Sedit annos 4, menses 10, dies 12. Ex Vaticanis indicibus constat eum sedisse annis sex, mens. 7, dieb. 4. Euseb. in Chron. graviter errat, dum (continues)

He sat four years, ten months, twelve days. From the Vatican lists it is established that he sat six years, seven months, four days. Eusebius in the Chronicle errs gravely when (continues)

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fecit ministeria sacrata omnia argentea, et patenas argenteas 25 apposuit. Hic sua traditione multos convertit ad baptismum et credulitatem; Tiburtium etiam et Valerianum nobilissimum virum, sponsum sanctae Caeciliae, quos etiam usque ad martyrii palmam perduxit. Et per ejus monita et doctrinam, multi martyrio coronati sunt. Hic fecit ordinationes quinque per mensem Decembrem, presbyteros novem, diaconos quinque, episcopos per diversa loca octo. Qui et sepultus est in coemeterio Praetextati, via Appia, VIII Kalendas Junias, et cessavit episcopatus dies 30.

made all the sacred vessels of silver, and set up 25 silver patens. By his teaching he converted many to baptism and to belief; Tiburtius too and Valerian, a most noble man, the bridegroom of St Cecilia, whom he also led as far as the palm of martyrdom. And through his admonitions and teaching many were crowned with martyrdom. He held five ordinations in the month of December: nine priests, five deacons, eight bishops for various places. He was also buried in the cemetery of Praetextatus, on the Appian Way, on the eighth day before the Kalends of June, and the episcopate was vacant 30 days.

NOTITIA ALTERA.

SECOND NOTICE.

(D. COUSTANT, Epistolae Rom. pont I, 114.)

(D. Coustant, Letters of the Roman Pontiffs I, 114.)

Hunc papam, Alexandro imperatore, Callisto successisse Eusebius in Chronico tradit. Eum Ecclesiae Romanae pontificatu octennio perfunctum esse idem scriptor Hist. lib. VI, c. 23, docet. Et eum quidem a consulatu Maximi et Aeliuni usque Agricola et Clementino, hoc est ab anno Christi 223 ad 230 Ecclesiam rexisse ex Bucheriano catalogo discimus. Maii 25 die, quo et memoriam ejus celebrat Ecclesia, obiisse creditur. Haec autem omnia inter se, necnon cum iis, quae de Callisto praemisimus, componi commode possunt, si octennium Eusebianum octo diversos consulatus intelligamus. Nam ab anni 223 mense Octobri, circa cujus exitum Callistus pontifex creatus putatur, ad 25 diem mensis Maii anni 230, quo Urbani mors consignatur, octo recensentur

That this pope succeeded Callistus under the emperor Alexander, Eusebius records in the Chronicle. That he discharged the pontificate of the Roman Church for eight years, the same writer teaches in the History, book VI, chapter 23. And indeed we learn from the Bucherian catalogue that he ruled the Church from the consulship of Maximus and Aelianus up to Agricola and Clementinus, that is, from the year of Christ 223 to 230. He is believed to have died on the 25th day of May, on which the Church also celebrates his memory. All these things can be conveniently reconciled with one another, and also with what we set out earlier concerning Callistus, if we understand Eusebius's eight years as eight different consulships. For from the month of October of the year 223, towards whose end Callistus is thought to have been made pontiff, to the 25th day of the month of May of the year 230, in which Urban's death is recorded, eight

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illi annos novem ascribit. Baron. anno 253, num. 1. Sev. Bin.

assigns him nine years. Baronius, year 253 [so the image reads; perhaps 233], no. 1. Severinus Binius.

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Hic fecit ministeria sacrata omnia argentea. His temporibus Ecclesiam non modo vitreis, sed etiam argenteis calicibus, quibus abundabat, usam fuisse, praeterquam quod hic aliud asseratur, ex Gregorii Turonensis commentariolo, quem De gloria martyrum scripsit, cognoscere licet, ubi dicit: multa sacra ministerialia vasa ex argento confecta, inventa esse, dum crypta illa, in qua fideles sacra agentes occlusi fuerant, refoderetur. Imo non argenteis tantum, sed et aureis calicibus Romanos pontifices circa haec tempora incruentum corporis ac sanguinis Domini sacrificium offerre consuevisse, Prudentius in hymno de rebus gestis S. Laurentii indicat, versibus, quibus persecutores S. Laurentium interpellarunt, hisce: Hunc esse vestris orgiis / Moremque, et artem, proditum est; / Hanc disciplinam foederis / Libent ut auro antistites, / Argenteis scyphis ferunt, / Fumare sacrum sanguinem: / Auroque nocturnis sacris / Astare fixos cereos. Cum igitur hac ex parte Christianae Ecclesiae gloria cresceret, regale sacerdotium Christi his fulgoribus et ornamentis illustraretur, non sine Dei nutu ac consilio accidit ut Alexander imperator templis deorum gentilium, aurum et argentum conferri aegre tulerit, illudque Persii, ut refert Lampridius, frequenter susurrarit: In templo quid facit aurum? Et demum singularis divinae providentiae opus esse videtur, quod aurum et argentum, templis ethnicorum jam ante collatum, per Maximinum Alexandri successorem istuc auferri, statuas deorum, omnemque materiam nummis condendis idoneam conflari permiserit: adeoque voluerit fieri, quod I Reg. cap. V scribitur, arca scilicet Dei appropinquante, Dagon Philisthaeorum deum confringi; illam extolli, hunc dejici; illam gloria et honore affici, hunc vero dejectum universo ornatu et decore exui et spoliari; Christianae religionis gloriam crescere, gentilitiae superstitionis honorem minui et penitus obscurari. Baron. anno Christi 233, n. 2 et 3. Vide quae diximus supra in notis ad Vitam Zephyrini. Id.

"He made all the sacred vessels of silver." That at this time the Church used not only glass chalices but silver ones too, of which it had plenty — besides the fact that it is asserted here — can be learned from the little treatise of Gregory of Tours which he wrote On the Glory of the Martyrs, where he says that many sacred ministering vessels made of silver were found when that crypt, in which the faithful had been shut in while performing the sacred rites, was dug open again. Indeed, that about this time the Roman pontiffs were accustomed to offer the unbloody sacrifice of the Lord's body and blood not only in silver but also in golden chalices, Prudentius shows in his hymn on the deeds of St Lawrence, in these verses with which the persecutors addressed St Lawrence: "This, it is reported, is the custom and the art of your rites; this the discipline of your covenant: that your bishops make libation from gold; in silver cups, they say, the sacred blood smokes; and at your nightly rites tapers stand fixed in gold." Since, then, the glory of the Christian Church was growing in this respect, and the royal priesthood of Christ was being made illustrious with these splendours and ornaments, it came about not without God's will and counsel that the emperor Alexander took it ill that gold and silver should be bestowed on the temples of the gentile gods, and often murmured that line of Persius, as Lampridius reports: "What does gold do in a temple?" And finally it seems to be the work of a singular divine providence that he permitted the gold and silver already bestowed on the temples of the heathen to be carried off thence by Maximinus, Alexander's successor, and the statues of the gods and all material fit for striking coin to be melted down; and so he willed to come to pass what is written in 1 Kings chapter V [1 Samuel 5], that as the ark of God drew near, Dagon the god of the Philistines was broken — the one exalted, the other cast down; the one endowed with glory and honour, the other, cast down, stripped and despoiled of all ornament and beauty: the glory of the Christian religion to grow, and the honour of gentile superstition to be lessened and utterly obscured. Baronius, year of Christ 233, nos. 2 and 3. See what we said above in the notes to the Life of Zephyrinus. The same [Binius].

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consulatus. At in Bucheriano Catalogo non solum annos 8, sed et praeterea menses 11, dies 12, in ms. autem reginae Suec. annos 8, menses 10, dies 12, in Corbeiensi annos 9, menses 1, dies 11 sedisse adnotatur. Sed quia in numericas notas error facile irrepit, adeo ut pro octo Urbani pontificis annis in uno Colbertino IV et in Fossatensi III tantum legantur, haerendum potius videtur consulari notae, qua Urbani pontificatus a Maximi et Aeliani consulatu ad consulatum Agricolae et Clementini in Bucheriano catalogo definitur.

consulships are counted. But in the Bucherian Catalogue he is noted to have sat not only 8 years but 11 months and 12 days besides; in the manuscript of the Queen of Sweden, however, 8 years, 10 months, 12 days; in the Corbie manuscript 9 years, 1 month, 11 days. But since error easily creeps into numerals, so much so that in place of Pope Urban's eight years only IV are read in one Colbertine manuscript and III in the Fossés manuscript, it seems better to hold to the consular dating, by which Urban's pontificate is defined in the Bucherian catalogue as running from the consulship of Maximus and Aelianus to the consulship of Agricola and Clementinus.

Urbani nullum ad nos pervenit genuinum scriptum. Ea quippe epistola, quae nomine illius circumfertur, Isidorum Mercatorem opificem habet: adeoque ab ejus collectione non est distrahenda.

No genuine writing of Urban has come down to us. For the letter which circulates under his name has Isidore Mercator as its maker, and so it is not to be separated from his collection.

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Per ejus monita et doctrinam multi martyrio coronati sunt. Qui Tiburtium, Valerianum et Maximum cum sancta Caecilia in fide instruxerat, baptizaverat, et adversus ictum gladii hortatu suo obfirmaverat, tandem ipse quoque multa propter Ecclesiam passus, cervicibus abscissis, martyrio coronatus est, anno Christi 233, Alexandri imperatoris 10, vigesimo quinto die Maii. Baron. praedicto loco. Id.

"Through his admonitions and teaching many were crowned with martyrdom." He who had instructed Tiburtius, Valerian and Maximus, with St Cecilia, in the faith, had baptized them, and by his exhortation had steeled them against the stroke of the sword, at length himself also, after suffering much for the Church, was crowned with martyrdom by beheading, in the year of Christ 233, the 10th year of the emperor Alexander, on the twenty-fifth day of May. Baronius, at the place cited. The same [Binius].

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