Pope Sixtus II

Sixtus II († August 6 258 ) ( Xystus ) was dated 30 August 257 to August 6, 258 Pope of Rome. His name means: S ( e) = xtus the Sixth (Latin ) or ( more likely here ) Xystus = the Smoothed (Greek ).

He ended the dispute with the African and eastern communities about the baptism of repentant heretics, whom his predecessor had led Stephan ( Ketzertaufstreit ). Like all early Roman bishops he was later filed in the succession of the popes, although this title has not yet led to his time. As such, he is the first pope who led as a former the same name.

The numbering of the Pope's name as Sixtus II was late. Presumably he meant Greek legend, it Xystus. He died as a martyr under Emperor Valerian. When service on the Coemeterium of Callistus, he was attacked and executed along with four deacons. Although he enjoyed the highest veneration by all early martyr popes, but the martyred after him Archdeacon Lawrence is more entered into the consciousness of Christianity. The life and work of the two has been found in the Capella Nicholas V in the Vatican highest artistic expression while Sixtus Raphael has immortalized in the painting of the Sistine Madonna.

(Not all due ) commemoration in the Catholic Church is August 7, in Orthodoxy, it is the 10th of August. In the Upper Bavarian Pollenfeld found ( until the 19th century ) in his honor and pilgrimages; the local parish church of St. Sixtus still has a relic of the forearm bone.

Sixtus is the patron for the good welfare of the grapes at his Memorial on August 7, find grapes ordinations. He is also a patron for the growth of the beans, for pregnant women and in cervical, dorsal and lumbar pain. His attributes are: purse or coin, often it is represented along with Lawrence.