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Saint Deusdedit
Pape (68 ème) de 615 à 618 (✝ 618)
ou Adéodat I.
Pape de Rome dont le mérite est si grand qu'il guérit un lépreux par un simple
baiser. On conserve de lui le plus ancien sceau pontifical: une bulle de plomb
représentant l'image du Bon Pasteur comme dans les peintures des catacombes et
au-dessus les deux lettres grecques "Alpha et Omega". Sur le revers:
"Deusdedit Pap."
Il brilla par sa simplicité et sa science et par l’affection qu’il
montra pour le clergé et le peuple.
Martyrologe romain
Saint
Adéodat I (615-618)
Romain.
L’éloignement
entre les Églises d’Orient et d’Occident est de plus en plus grand.
Adéodat
I fut le premier à utiliser un cachet en plomb pour authentifier les documents
pontificaux.
Pope St. Deusdedit
(Adeodatus I).
Kelly, Leo. "Pope St. Deusdedit." The
Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 8 Nov. 2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04760a.htm>.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04760a.htm
Date of birth
unknown; consecrated pope, 19 October (13 November), 615; d. 8 November
(3 December), 618; distinguished for his charity
and zeal. He encouraged and supported the clergy, who were impoverished in consequence of the
political troubles of the time; and when his diocese was visited by a violent earthquake and the
terrible scourge of leprosy he set an heroic example by his
efforts to relieve the suffering. The few decretals ascribed to him are unauthenticated. He is
said to have been the first pope to use leaden seals (bullæ) for pontifical
documents. One dating from his reign is still preserved,
the obverse of which represents the Good Shepherd in the midst of His sheep,
with the letters Alpha and Omega underneath, while the reverse bears
the inscription: Deusdedit Papæ.
His feast occurs 8 November.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04760a.htm
Deusdedit I, Pope (RM)
(also known as Adeodatus)
Born in Rome; died in Rome November 8, 618. Son of a subdeacon, Stephen,
Deusdedit was consecrated pope on October 19, 615. He encouraged the secular
clergy and devoted much of his time to aiding the needy, especially during the
disastrous earthquake that devastated Rome in August 618. He also worked
untiringly for the plague-stricken when the pestilence followed in Rome. His
pontificate was filled with troubles, civil commotions, and natural disasters.
Rebels flouted the imperial authority both at Ravenna and Naples. Up north at
Ravenna the exarch John, along with other imperial officials, had been
murdered. Down south at Naples a certain John of Compsa had risen in revolt,
taken over the town, and proclaimed his independence of the Emperor Heraclius.
Heraclius, who had
succeeded the weak Phocas in 610, was not the man to allow his empire to fall
to pieces. He sent his able chamberlain, the Patrician Eleutherius to correct
the problems in his Italian dominions. Eleutherius acted with vigor. First he
restored order in Ravenna. Then he marched south along the Flaminian Way. After
pausing in Rome to receive a warm welcome from the loyal Pope, he marched on
Naples, stormed the city, and put the rebel John to death. Instead of letting
well enough alone, however, Eleutherius turned on the Lombards and rekindled a
war which soon he was forced to end by once more buying off those tough
barbarians.
Pope Deusdedit was
especially fond of his secular clergy and seems to have leaned on them rather
than on monks for support. His love for his secular clergy was manifested even
after death, for in his will he left a sum of money to be distributed among
them.
According
to tradition, he was the first pope to use lead seals (bullae) on papal
documents, which in time came to be called bulls. There still exists such a
leaden bulla dating from this pope's reign. In all ancient Benedictine
menologies he is called a Benedictine monk, but there is no certain evidence
for it (Benedictines, Brusher, Delaney).
