Location:Probably Vaucelles - Date:Shortly before 1250 (incorporated in the first 'Passionaire français' II, 12) (BHL 1495) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /

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Life of pope Sixtus II (+ 258). Sixtus originally came from the Greek mainland. In august 257 he was elected successor to Pope St. Stephen I. During his reign, he put an end to the difficulties and troubled relationship that his predecessors had with the bishops in Africa and Asia Minor on the theological conflict whether the sacrament of baptism was valid or not when it was administered by a heretic. In 258 Pope Sixtus died as one of the first victims of the persecutions under Emperor Valerian. He was caught during his prayer in the catacombs of Calixtus and eventually tortured to death. Together with him his deacons Felicissimus Agapitus and the sub-deacons Januaris, Magnus, Stephen and Vincent were killed. The mortal remains of Sixtus were buried in the papal chapel of the catacombs of Calixtus. Later, his relics were housed in the church of San Sisto.

MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 402 (fragment)

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1495
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PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 180-189
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 817-818