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SAINT FABIAN [FABIANUS] (d. 250)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAINT See also:FABIAN [FABIANUS] (d. 250)  , See also:pope and See also:martyr, was chosen pope, or See also:bishop of See also:Rome, in See also:January 236 in See also:succession to See also:Anteros . See also:Eusebius (Hist . Eccl. vi . 29) relates how the Christians, having assembled in Rome to elect a new bishop, saw a See also:dove alight upon the See also:head of See also:Fabian, a stranger to the See also: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 See also:emperor See also:Decius, his See also:death taking See also:place on the loth of January 250, and was buried in the See also:catacomb of See also:Calixtus, where a memorial has been found . He is said to have baptized the emperor See also:Philip and his son, to have done some See also:building in the catacombs, to have improved the organization of the See also:church in Rome, to have appointed officials to See also:register the deeds of the martyrs, and to have founded several churches in See also:France . His deeds are thus described in the See also: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 See also:authentic See also:information about Fabian, there is See also:evidence that his episcopate was one of See also:great importance in the See also:history of the See also:early church . He was highly esteemed by See also:Cyprian, bishop of See also:Carthage; Novatian refers to his nobilissimac memoriae, and he corresponded with See also:Origen . One authority refers to him as See also:Flavian . See the See also:article on " Fabian " by A . See also:Harnack in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie, See also:Band v . (See also:Leipzig, 1898) .

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