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Pope St. Pius I

Pope St. Pius I

?–155 CE · Aquileia

Pius I led the Roman church around the mid-second century. He is best known through a near-contemporary connection: the Muratorian Fragment states that the Shepherd of Hermas, a widely circulated Christian text, was written by Hermas while his brother Pius was bishop of Rome—an unusually concrete, if debated, datum for this era. His pontificate saw continued struggle against Gnostic and Marcionite movements then strong in the city. The Liber Pontificalis assigns him an origin at Aquileia and various decrees of doubtful authenticity. His reign marks a period when Rome's Christian community was consolidating its identity against rival teachings.

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AquileiaItaly

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About Aquileia

Aquileia was a major Roman city at the head of the Adriatic in northeastern Italy (modern Friuli–Venezia Giulia). The physician Galen was present there with the imperial court during an outbreak of plague in the late 160s AD, an episode he records.

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