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Pope John VII

Pope John VII

?–707 CE · Thurii (Magna Graecia)

Of Greek heritage and the son of a Byzantine court official who had overseen imperial estates on the Palatine, John VII was a cultivated patron of art. He commissioned notable mosaics and frescoes, decorated the basilica of Santa Maria Antiqua, and was among the first popes to develop devotional imagery of the Virgin. When Emperor Justinian II sent him the canons of the Quinisext Council for approval, John, cautious of imperial wrath, returned them without endorsement — a hesitant response criticized by some chroniclers. He undertook restoration of churches and the papal residence and was buried in a chapel he had built at Old Saint Peter's.

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Thurii (Magna Graecia)

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About Thurii (Magna Graecia)

A panhellenic colony in southern Italy, founded under Athenian leadership on the site of old Sybaris, planned by the philosopher-architect Hippodamus and chosen by Herodotus, the 'Father of History,' as his adopted home.

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