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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 5, is Saint Telesphorus’ Day, With Footnotes – 164

Jan 5, 2019

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Sandro Botticelli, (1445 –1510) The Pope SS. Telesforo, c. 1481 Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome Saint Telesphorus, (died c. 136); feast day January 5), pope from about 125 to about 136. Telesphorus is said to have been a Greek, possibly from Calabria. Successor to St. Sixtus I, he was the eighth pope and a witness to…