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Born [date unknown] in Albano Laziale, Western Roman Empire
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Died 12 Mar 0417 [location unknown]
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| Preceded by Anastasius I |
40th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 22 Dec 401 - 12 Mar 417 |
Succeeded by Zosimus |
Biography
Pope St Innocent I Innocentius is Notable.
Innocent, son of Innocentius, was born in Albano Laziale, Western Roman Empire.[1][2]
He was consecrated Bishop of Rome on 22 December 401, and immediately set about maintaining and extending the authority of the Roman apostolic See, which was seen as the ultimate resort for the settlement of all ecclesiastical disputes..[1]
He died on 12 March 417. In 846, Pope Sergius II gave approval for the relics of St. Innocent to be moved by Duke Liudolf of Saxony, along with those of his father and predecessor Anastasius, to the crypt of the former collegiate church of Gandersheim, now Gandersheim Abbey, where most rest until this day.[3] Relics were also brought to The Church of Our Lady St Mary of Glastonbury upon its consecration.[4]
Flocknote Popes in a Year [5] tells us:
- His date of birth is unknown, as is most of his life prior to being pope other than him having, in some capacity, served the Church in Rome. The energetic and zealous leader was unanimously chosen to succeed Anastasius I in December of 401, and he never looked back.
- Innocent had no problem exercising his authority to help firm up the practices of the Church, issuing decretals (letters on canon law) on absolution for dying penitents, denouncing Pelagianism (a sect saying original sin is bogus), and high-fiving St. Augustine for doing the same. Innocent I also made a trip to Ravenna (Italy) to try to convince Alaric, the Gothic king, to not raid Rome. The black-eyeliner-clad ruler was unmovable, though, and Rome was sacked in 410, preventing Innocent I from returning to the city for two years. Innocent died five years later and was buried March 12. His relics still reside in the Gandersheim Abbey in modern-day Germany.
- It’s thanks in part to St. Innocent I that we know the legitimacy of the current Canon of Scripture (list of books in the Bible). It’s generally accepted that, in 405 AD, Innocent sent a list of the books to a bishop in Gaul that was identical to the one proclaimed as official some 1150 years later at the Council of Trent.
- Innocent I had major respect for St. John Chrysostom, his brother bishop from the East and former Patriarch of Constantinople. St. John had more or less been the punching bag of Empress Eudoxia through being deposed (unlawfully), exiled, and harassed (literally) unto death. In desperation, St. John appealed to Innocent for help, but sadly the pope couldn’t do anything substantial in time to save him. So, he instead refused communion to John’s persecutors and, once the Bishop of Antioch reconciled with the Church, Innocent restored John’s name among the names of saints read aloud at Mass.
- In 416, eruptions of Krakatoa, the volcanic island within the borders of Indonesia, are recorded in the Javanese Book of Kings, though geological evidence doesn’t support the assertion.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vatican
- ↑ Wikipedia Pope Innocent I
- ↑ Birgit Heilmann, Aus Heiltum wird Geschichte. Der Gandersheimer Reliquienschatz in nachreformatorischer Zeit. Thomas Labusiak and Hedwig Röckelein, Regensburg, 2009 (Studien zum Frauenstift Gandersheim und seinen Eigenklöstern, vol. 1).
- ↑ The Glastonbury Shrine, Opening of the present church
- ↑ Flocknote Popes in a Year
SOURCES (and further reading)
- John, E. (1964). The Popes: A concise biographical history. New York: Hawthorn Books.
- Pope St. Innocent I - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08011a.htm
- Pope Innocent I - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_I
- Krakatoa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa#416_AD_event
