Everything about Pope Miltiades totally explained
Pope Saint Miltiades, also called
Melchiades, was
pope from
2 July 311 to
10 January 314.
He appears to have been an
African by birth, but of his personal history nothing is known. He was elected after a period of
sede vacante lasting from the death of
Pope Eusebius on
17 August 310 or, according to others, 309, soon after Eusebius was exiled to
Sicily.
Miltiades became pope after the
Roman emperor Galerius had passed an edict of toleration ending the persecution of Christians. During his pontificate, in 313, the
Edict of Milan was passed by the
tetrarchs
Constantine and
Licinius, declaring that they'd be neutral with regard to religious worship and restoring church property. Constantine presented the pope with the
Lateran Palace which became the papal residence and seat of Christian governance.
In the same year 313, Miltiades presided over the
Lateran Synod in Rome at which
Caecilian was acquitted of the charges brought against him, and
Donatus Magnus was condemned as a
heretic (see
Donatism). He was then summoned to the
Council of Arles, the first representative meeting of the Western Roman Empire's Christian bishops, but died before it was held.
The
Liber Pontificalis, compiled from the fifth century onwards, attributed the introduction of several later customs to Miltiades.
In the thirteenth century, the feast of Saint Melchiades (as he was then called) was included, with the mistaken qualification of "martyr", in the
Roman Calendar for celebration on
10 December. In 1969 it was removed from that calendar of obligatory liturgical celebrations, and his feast was moved to the day of his death,
10 January, with his name given in the form "Miltiades" and without the indication "martyr".
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