Saint Gelasius I

Gelasi Gélase Pope of African origin who reigned from 493 to 496. us, a native of Africa, son of Valerius, successor to Pope Saint Felix III saint Félix III Predecessor of Gelasius I on the See of Saint Peter. (483-493), occupied the See of Saint Peter for four years, eight months, and eighteen days (March 1, 493 – November 19, 496). In two ordinations held in Rome in the months of February and December, he created two deacons, thirty-two priests, and seventy-seven bishops. He was a man of very ardent zeal for the propagation of the faith, highly learned especially in sacred literature, and of intrepid courage in resisting those who invaded the rights of the Church and in humbling the voice of the schismatics . While T Théodoric King of the Ostrogoths and ruler of the West during the time of Gelasius. heodoric, to whom history would give the name the Great, imposed his dominion in the West through the dual force of diplomacy and arms and founded the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths, the Sovereign Pontiff, with no other weapons than law, charity, and prayer, established religious discipline upon immutable foundations, destined to bow all the barbarians under the yoke of the Gospel. Incessant wars, political revolutions, and the agitation of the entire world did not turn him away from this work, modest in appearance and entirely focused on interior perfection, which was to have results no less useful to the Church herself than to the nascent states of Christian Europe. It was through charity that Gelasius began his apostolic mission. During a famine that devastated the city of Rome, he knew how to provide amply for its subsistence. The Lu percalia a lupercales Roman pagan festivals abolished by Pope Gelasius I. nd other pagan festivals still persisted, despite the edicts of the emperors and the zeal of the Pontiffs. Saint Gelasius finally abolished them forever, in spite of the senato r Andromac Andromaque Roman senator opposed to the abolition of pagan festivals. hus and several other notables of Rome. He had the books of the Manichaeans of Rome publicly burned in the square of Sai nt Mary Ma Manichéens A sect whose books were burned by Gelasius. jor. He also repressed the Pelagians and other sectarians, condemned the partisans of Acacius, and, in particular, Euphemius of Constantinople.