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FABIAN [FABIANUS], SAINT (d. 250)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 113 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FABIAN [FABIANUS], SAINT (d. 250) ,
pope
  and
martyr
 , was chosen
pope
 , or
bishop
  of Rome, in January 236 in succession to Anteros. Eusebius (Hist. Eccl. vi. 29) relates how the Christians, having assembled in Rome to elect a new
bishop
 , saw a dove alight upon the head of
Fabian
 , a stranger to the city, who was thus marked out for this dignity, and was at once proclaimed bishop, although there were several famous men among the candidates for the vacant position.
Fabian
  was martyred during the persecution under the emperor Decius, his death taking place on the loth of January 250, and was buried in the
catacomb
  of Calixtus, where a memorial has been found. He is said to have baptized the emperor Philip and his son, to have done some building in the catacombs, to have improved the organization of the church in Rome, to have appointed officials to
register
  the deeds of the martyrs, and to have founded several churches in France. His deeds are thus described in the Liber Pontificalis: " Hic regiones dividit diaconibus et fecit vii subdiacones, qui vii notariis imminerent, ut gestas martyrum integro fideliter colligerent, et multas fabricas per cymiteria fieri praecepit." Although there is very little authentic information about Fabian, there is evidence that his episcopate was one of
great
  importance in the history of the early church. He was highly esteemed by Cyprian, bishop of Carthage; Novatian refers to his nobilissimac
memoriae, and he corresponded with Origen. One authority refers to him as Flavian.
See the article on " Fabian " by A. Harnack in
Herzog
 -Hauck's Realencyklopadie, Band v. (
Leipzig
 , 1898).


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