Date of birth unknown; died 4 Feb., 708,
Successor of John VII, he was consecrated probably 15 Jan., 708,
and died after a brief pontificate of about three weeks; he was
buried in St. Peter's. He was a Syrian by birth and the son of
one John. Although he was so afflicted with gout that he was
unable even to feed himself, he is nevertheless said to have been
a man of strong character, and to have been able to take thought
for the good of the city. He gave orders to prepare lime to
repair the walls of Rome, and before he died consecrated a bishop
for Corsica.
Liber Pontificalis, I, 338: MANN, The Lives of the Popes in
the Early Middle Ages, I, pt. ii (St. Louis and London, 1902),
124.
HORACE K. MANN
Transcribed by Scott Anthony Hibbs
From the Catholic Encyclopedia, copyright © 1913 by the Encyclopedia Press, Inc. Electronic version copyright © 1996 by New Advent, Inc., P.O. Box 281096, Denver, Colorado, USA, 80228.
