Pope Saint Anterus was Pope

Pope

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 from November 21, 235 to January 3, 236, and succeeded Pope Pontian

Pope Pontian

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, who had been deported from Rome

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 along with the antipope

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 Hippolytus

Hippolytus (writer)

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 to Sardinia

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Anterus was the son of Romulus, born in Petilia Policastro

Petilia Policastro

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. He was pope for only one month and ten days, and is thought to have been of Greek origin, but the name could indicate that he was a freed slave. He created one bishop for the city of Fondi

Fondi

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Martyrdom

Some scholars believe he was martyr

Martyr

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ed, because he ordered greater strictness in searching into the acts of the martyrs exactly collected by the notaries appointed by Saint Clement

Saint Clement

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. Other scholars doubt this and believe it is more likely that he died in undramatic circumstances during the persecutions of Emperor Maximinus the Thracian.

Tomb

He was buried in the papal crypt of the Catacomb of Callixtus

Catacomb of Callixtus

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 on the Appian Way

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 in Rome

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. The site of his sepulchre

Sepulchre

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 was discovered by De Rossi in 1854, with some broken remnants of the Greek epitaph engraved on the narrow oblong slab that closed his tomb and only the Greek term for bishop

Bishop

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 readable.

His ashes had been removed to the Church of Saint Sylvester in the Campus Martius

Campus Martius

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 and were discovered on November 17, 1595 when Pope Clement VIII

Pope Clement VIII

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rebuilt that church.