Saint Celestine

Saint Celestine

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Celestine
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information about Saint Celestine
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  • Date of Birth and Death
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Celestine
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Pope

Saint Celestine

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  • Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Celestine: April 6
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Pope
  • Date of Death: Saint Celestine died 432
 
 

The Story and History of Saint Celestine
The story and history of Saint Celestine. Celestine was a native of Rome, and upon the demise of Pope Boniface he was chosen to succeed him, in September 422, by the wonderful consent of the whole city. His first official act was to confirm the condemnation of an African bishop who had been convicted of grave crimes. He wrote also to the bishops of the provinces of Vienne and Narbonne in Gaul, to correct several abuses, and ordered, among other things, that absolution or reconciliation should never be refused to any dying sinner who sincerely asked it; for repentance depends not so much on time as on the heart. He assembled a synod at Rome in 430, in which the writings of Nestorius were examined, and his blasphemies in maintaining in Christ a divine and a human person were condemned. The Pope pronounced sentence of excommunication against Nestorius, and deposed him. Being informed that Agricola, the son of a British bishop called Saverianus, who had been married before he was raised to the priesthood, had spread the seeds of the Pelagian heresy in Britain, St. Celestine sent thither St. Germanus of Auxerre, whose zeal and conduct happily prevented the threatening danger. He also sent St. Palladius, a Roman, to preach the Faith to the Scots, both in North Britain and in Ireland, and many authors of the life of St. Patrick say that apostle likewise received his commission to preach to the Irish from St. Celestine, in 431. This holy Pope died on the 1st of August, in 432, having reigned almost ten years

Feast Day of Saint Celestine
The Feast Day of Saint Celestine is April 6. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.

 

Saint Celestine

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Celestine
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
  • Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Celestine
  • Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Celestine - April 6
  • History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
  • Date of Death: 432
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Celestine
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Pope
 
 

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Saint Celestine