Pope Marcellus I (6 January 255 – 16 January 309) was the bishop of Rome from May or June 308 to his death. He succeeded Marcellinus after a considerable interval. Under Maxentius , he was banished from Rome in 309, on account of the tumult caused by the severity of the penances he had imposed on Christians who had lapsed under the recent persecution. He died the same year, being succeeded by Eusebius . His relics are under the altar of San Marcello al Corso in Rome. Since 1969 his feast day , traditionally kept on 16 January by the Catholic Church, is left to local calendars and is no longer inscribed in the General Roman Calendar .
22-502: Del Duca may refer to: Antonio del Duca (1491–1564), a Sicilian friar Cino Del Duca (1899–1967), an Italian-born businessman film producer and philanthropist Giacomo del Duca (c. 1520–1604), an Italian sculptor and architect Marcello Del Duca (born 1950), an Italian former water polo player Simone Del Duca (1912–2004), a French businesswoman, and major philanthropist, married to Cino Del Duca Steven Del Duca (born c. 1973),
44-629: A Canadian politician and former leader of the Ontario Liberal Party See also [ edit ] Prix mondial Cino Del Duca , an international literary award Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation , a charitable foundation based in Paris Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca , a multi-purpose stadium in Ascoli Piceno, Italy Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
66-553: A beatific vision of the Seven Martyr Saints— Saints Saturnino, Ciriaco, Largo, Smaragdo, Sisinnio, Trasone and Pope Marcellus I — revealed in a white light within the ruins of the Baths of Diocletian. From that moment he was fixated on seeing a church dedicated to those built within the ruins. He inscribed seven of the great red granite Roman columns of the caldarium with the names in his list of Seven Archangels :
88-491: A new bishop of Rome was elected. Then in 308, according to the Catalogus Liberianus , Marcellus first entered on his office: "He was bishop in the time of Maxentius , from the 4th consulship of Maxentius when Maximus was his colleague, until after the consulship." At Rome, Marcellus found the church in the greatest confusion. The meeting-places and some of the burial-places of the faithful had been confiscated, and
110-656: A trip to Venice to have the booklet of his liturgy printed, with prayers and images of the angels and while he was there commissioned a copy of the mosaic in the Basilica of San Marco depicting the Virgin among the Seven Angels, In Rome once more, Antonio accepted the rectorship of the Orfanelli di Santa Maria in Aquiro, continuing to frequent the thermae and pressing Paul III to consecrate
132-611: The Via Salaria (opposite the Catacomb of St. Priscilla), laid out. The Liber Pontificalis says: "He established a cemetery on the Via Salaria, and he appointed 25 "title" churches as jurisdictions within the city of Rome to provide baptism and penance for the many who were converted among the pagans and burial for the martyrs." At the beginning of the 7th century, there were probably twenty-five "title" churches in Rome; even granting that, perhaps,
154-463: The beginning of the persecution, had the pope seized and sent into exile. This took place at the end of 308 or the beginning of 309 according to the passages cited above from the Catalogus Liberianus , which gives the length of the pontificate as no more than one year, six (or seven) months, and twenty days. Marcellus died shortly after leaving Rome, and was venerated as a saint. His feast day
176-626: The cardinal he composed a liturgy for a Mass of the Seven Angels. After his patron's death in 1533, he served as chaplain to don Fernando de Silva, conde de Cifuentes, ambassador of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor , never failing to seek official approval for his liturgy. In vain were his importunings of Pope Paul III Farnese, who assigned him duties that returned him to his native Sicily. Once again in Rome, he became chaplain in Santa Maria di Loreto in Trajan's Forum. There, one summer morning in 1541 he had
198-465: The church gave rise. The poetic tribute composed by Pope Damasus I in memory of his predecessor and placed over his grave (De Rossi, "Inscr. christ. urbis Romæ", II, 62, 103, 138; cf. Idem, "Roma sotterranea", II, 204–5) relates that Marcellus was looked upon as a wicked enemy by all the lapsed, because he insisted that they should perform the prescribed penance for their guilt. As a result, violent conflicts broke out; Maxentius, who had apostatized before
220-467: The compiler of the Liber Pontificalis referred this number to the time of Marcellus, there is still a clear historical tradition in support of his declaration that the ecclesiastical administration in Rome was reorganized by this pope after the great persecution. The work of the pope was, however, quickly interrupted by the controversies to which the question of the readmittance of the lapsi into
242-616: The grand Roman ruin to the Beatissima Vergine dei Sette Arcangeli . Finally the construction was authorized by Pope Pius IV , in a brief of 27 July 1561 that dedicated the church to the "Beatissimae Virgini et omnium Angelorum et Martyrum" , " the most Holy Virgin and all the Angels and Martyrs ", and conceded the direction to the Cistercians of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme . The designer of
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#1733085966218264-472: The graves of the Roman martyrs as existing in the basilica of St. Silvester (De Rossi, Roma sotterranea , I, 176). A 5th-century "Passio Marcelli", which is included in the legendary account of the martyrdom of Cyriacus (cf. Acta Sanct., Jan., II, 10–14) and is followed by the Liber Pontificalis , gives a different account of the end of Marcellus. According to this version, the pope was required by Maxentius, who
286-467: The little Church of Sant'Angelo an ancient icon of the Seven Angelic Princes that emerged almost by a miracle after centuries of neglect. Fired with his faith, he traveled to Rome, harboring the intention of obtaining formal recognition of these Sette Principi angelici . In Rome he obtained a post as chaplain to Antonio Maria Cardinal Ciocchi del Monte, uncle of the future Pope Julius III . For
308-670: The new church was Michelangelo , one of his last commissions. Pope Marcellus I For some time after the death of Marcellinus in 304, the Diocletian persecution continued with unabated severity. After the abdication of Diocletian in 305, and the accession in Rome of Maxentius to the throne of the Caesars in October of the following year, the Christians of the capital again enjoyed comparative peace. Nevertheless, nearly two years passed before
330-487: The ordinary life and activity of the church was interrupted. Added to this were the dissensions within the church itself, caused by the large number of weaker members who had fallen away during the long period of active persecution and later, under the leadership of an apostate, violently demanded that they should be readmitted to communion without doing penance. According to the Liber Pontificalis , Marcellus divided
352-473: The territorial administration of the church into twenty-five districts (tituli), appointing over each a priest, who saw to the preparation of the catechumens for baptism and directed the performance of public penances. The priest was also made responsible for the burial of the dead and for the celebrations commemorating the deaths of the martyrs. The pope also had a new burial-place, the Cœmeterium Novellœ on
374-525: The three familiar ones, Michael , Raphael , and Gabriel , with the archangels specific to the Eastern Catholic rites : Selaphiel , Jegudiel , Barachiel and Uriel . His beseeching letter of 13 November 1546 to Signora Lucrezia della Rovere-Colonna to intercede with Paul III on behalf of the project: it must have been one among many. In 1543 he combined a pilgrimage to the Santa Casa di Loreto with
396-514: The title Del Duca . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Del_Duca&oldid=1117309982 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Antonio del Duca Antonio del Duca or Lo Duca ( Cefalù 1491 – Rome 1564)
418-417: The work of attending to the horses brought into the station, in which menial occupation he died. All this is probably legendary, the reference to the restoration of ecclesiastical activity by Marcellus alone having an historical basis. The tradition related in the verses of Damasus seems much more worthy of belief. The feast of Saint Marcellus, whose name is to this day borne by the church at Rome mentioned in
440-514: Was 16 January, according to the Depositio episcoporum of the Chronography of 354 and every other Roman authority. Nevertheless, it is not known whether this is the date of his death or that of the burial of his remains, after these had been brought back from the unknown place to which he had been exiled. He was buried in the catacomb of St. Priscilla where his grave is mentioned by the itineraries to
462-456: Was enraged at his reorganization of the church, to lay aside his episcopal dignity and make an offering to the gods. On his refusal, he was condemned to work as a slave at a station on the public highway (catabulum). At the end of nine months he was set free by the clergy; but a matron named Lucina having had her house on the Via Lata consecrated by him as "titulus Marcelli" he was again condemned to
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#1733085966218484-544: Was the Sicilian friar whose persistent campaign for an official veneration of the "Seven Angelic Princes" was partly answered in the dedication of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri , constructed to the orders of Pope Pius IV within the ruins of the Baths of Diocletian . Antonio had been obsessed with the cult of the angels since the days when he was choirmaster in the cathedral of Palermo , 1513–15. At that time he discovered in
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