Saint Julius I

The impious heresy of Arius was progressing dangerously throughout the East, and a great number of holy bishops found themselves forced to leave their sees; he received them with open arms, e specially Sain saint Athanase Bishop deposed by heretics and reinstated at the Council of Sardica. t Athanasius, and defended them to the end against their adversaries. He condemned the synods of Tyre and Antioch gathered by the Arians to abolish the faith of Nicaea. He assembled two Rome Birthplace of Maximian. councils in Rome in which he received the complaints of the exiled bishops and proclaimed their innocence.

Through his counse l, Emperor Constans l'empereur Constant Roman Emperor of the West, protector of Saint Paul. , a religious prince who reigned in the West, acted upon his brother Constanti Constance Roman emperor who exiled Eusebius for his opposition to Arianism. us, a supporter of the Arians, so that he would recall Saint Athanasius from exile. He rejected the deceptive formula of faith devised by the Eusebians, followers of Arius, at the second Council of A ntioch. He gathered the se second concile de Sardique Council held in 347 for the defense of the orthodox faith. cond Council of Sardica, composed of bishops from the West and the East; his legates presided over it, and many useful measures were taken there for the maintenance of the Catholic faith and for the restoration of ecclesiastical discipline.

Furthermore, he built two basilicas in the city of Rome and adorned them with sacred paintings: one near the Forum, the other on the Via Flaminia. He constructed three cemeteries: one on the same Via Flaminia, another on the Via Aurelia, and the third at Porto. He de creed Porto Site of the construction of a cemetery by the pope. that a priest should not plead his civil case before any but an ecclesiastical judge, and he ordered that all acts relating to ecclesiastical affairs should be drawn up by a protonotary. In three ordinations celebrated in the month of December, he created three deacons, ten priests, and nine bishops. After having governed the Church of God for fifteen years, five months, and seventeen days, he flew to the Lord on the 12th of April. He was buried in the cemetery of Calepodius. From there, his relics were transferred t o the church of Saint Mary Beyond the Ti église de Sainte-Marie, au-delà du Tibre Roman basilica housing the saint's relics. ber, which he had enlarged, and were honorably deposited under the high altar.

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