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SILVESTER I

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 117 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SILVESTER I  ., See also:bishop of See also:Rome from See also:January 314 to See also:December 335, succeeded See also:Melchiades and was followed by See also:Marcus . The accounts of his papacy preserved in the See also:Liber pontificalis are little else than a See also:record of the gifts said to have been conferred on the See also:Roman See also:church by See also:Constantine the See also:Great . He was represented at the See also:council of See also:Nice . The See also:story of his having baptized Constantine is pure fiction, as almost contemporary See also:evidence shows the See also:emperor to have received this rite near See also:Nicomedia at the hands of See also:Eusebius, bishop of that See also:city . According to See also:Dollinger, the entire See also:legend, with all its details of the leprosy and the proposed See also:bath of See also:blood, cannot have been composed later than the See also:close of the 5th See also:century (cf . See also:Duchesne, the Liber pontificalis, i . 109) . The so-called Donation of Constantine was See also:long ago shown to be See also:spurious, but the document is of very considerable antiquity and, in Dollinger's See also:opinion, was forged in Rome between 752 and 777 . It was certainly known to See also:Pope See also:Adrian in 778, and was inserted in the false See also:decretals towards the See also:middle of the next century .

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