Name
Agapitus, bishop of Rome, ob. 536
Saint ID
S00811
Reported Death Not Before
536
Reported Death Not After
536
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops
| ID | Title | E01364 | The short Life of *Agapitus (bishop of Rome, ob. 536, S00811) in the Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome soon after his death, mentions Agapitus' father, a presbyter of the church in Rome of *Iohannes and Paulus (brothers and eunuchs, martyrs of Rome under the emperor Julian, S00384); it concludes with Agapitus' death in Constantinople, the transfer of his body back to Rome, and its burial at the church of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036), on 20 September [AD 536]. | E03712 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 17 April *Agapitus (bishop of Rome, ob. 536, S00811) and probably *Marcian (the Emperor, ob. 457, S01495). | E04443 | Gregory the Great, in his Dialogues (3.3), describes how *Agapitus I (bishop of Rome, ob. 536, S00811) cured a man who could neither walk nor speak through the intervention of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036). Written in Latin in Rome, c. 593. | E06588 | The Latin Gelasian Sacramentary (or Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae), probably compiled around 750 near Paris using earlier material from Rome, records prayers to saints on their feast days in August. |
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