St Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655). Martin became Pope on July 5th, 649, at the time of a furious quarrel between the Orthodox and the Monothelite heretics.
Constans the Second, also called Constantine the Bearded ,Heraclius’ grandson, was on the throne at the time, and Paul was Patriarch of Constantinople. To restore peace in the Church, the Emperor himself wrote a dogmatic decree, the Typos, which leaned heavily towards heresy.
Pope Martin summoned a Council of 105 bishops, at which the Emperor’s statement was condemned. At the same time, the Pope wrote a letter to Patriarch Paul, begging him to uphold the purity of the Orthodox faith and to counsel the Emperor to reject the theories of the heretics…
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