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Born towards the end of the sixth century inSicily; died inRome, 681. It is generally believed that Agatho was originally aBenedictinemonk at St. Hermes inPalermo, and there is good authority that he was more than 100 years old when, in 678, he ascended thepapal chair as successor toPope Donus. Shortly after Agatho became Pope, St. Wilfred,Archbishop ofYork, who had beenunjustly and uncanonicallydeposed from hissee byTheodore of Canterbury, arrived atRome to invoke the authority of theHoly See in his behalf. At asynod which Pope Agatho convoked in the Lateran to investigate the affair, Wilfred was restored to hissee. The chief event of Agatho's pontificate is, however theSixth Ecumenical Council, held at Constantinople in 680, at which thepapal legates presided and which practically ended theMonothelite heresy. Before thedecrees of the council arrived inRome for the approval of thepope, Agatho had died. He wasburied inSt. Peter's, 10 January, 681. Pope Agatho was remarkable for his affability andcharity. On account of the manymiracles he wrought he has been styledThaumaturgus, or Wonderworker. His memory is celebrated by the Latin as well as theGreek Church.
Mann, Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages (London, 1902); Butler, Lives of the Saints (London, 1877); Montalembert, The Monks of the West (Boston), II, 383 sqq; Moberly in Dict. of Christ. Biogr. (London, 1877); Lobkowitz, Statistik der Papste (Freiburg and St. Louis, 1905).
APA citation.Ott, M.(1907).Pope St. Agatho. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01204c.htm
MLA citation.Ott, Michael."Pope St. Agatho."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 1.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1907.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01204c.htm>.
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Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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