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slaven wrote:
> "Danijel Turina"  wrote in message 
> news:hif8ev$4ar$1@solani.org...
> 
>> vremena. Prvi papa koji je došao na vlast napravio je pokolj
>> neistomišljenika i konkurenata po Rimu, od čega ih je 137 poklao u
>> Liberijanskoj bazilici, a od suda su ga spasili bogati prijatelji mitom.
> 
> moze li nesto konkretnije o ovome? ime pape, godina.. hvala 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damasus_I

"His life coincided with the rise of Constantine I and the reunion and
redivision of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires as well as what is
sometimes known as the Constantinian shift, associated with the
widespread legitimization of Christianity and the later adoption of
Christianity as the religion of the Roman state."
...
"Damasus is known to have been raised in the service of the Basilica of
San Lorenzo fuori le Mura in Rome, and following the death of Pope
Liberius, he succeeded to the Papacy amidst factional violence. A group
of Damasus' supporters, previously loyal to the Antipope Felix II,
attacked and killed rivals loyal to Liberius' deacon Ursinus, in a riot
that required the intervention of Emperor Valentinian I to quell."
...
"Once he was securely consecrated bishop of Rome, his men attacked
Ursinus and his remaining supporters who were seeking refuge in the
Liberian basilica, resulting in a massacre of one hundred and thirty
seven supporters of Ursinus. Damasus was also accused of murder before a
later prefect, but his rich friends secured the personal intervention of
the emperor to rescue him from this humiliation. The reputations of both
Damasus and the Roman church in general suffered greatly due to these
two unseemly incidents."
...
"Damasus also contributed greatly to the liturgical and aesthetic
enrichment of the city churches. He employed a calligrapher, one Furius
Dionysius Philocalus, to adorn the shrines of martyrs and Roman bishops
with epigrams.
These ceremonial embellishments and the emphasis on the Roman legacy of
Peter and Paul amounted to a general claim to the Roman upper classes
that the real glory of Rome was Christian and not pagan. All this made
it more socially acceptable for the upper classes to convert to
Christianity. Often, the women of the family were the first to abandon
pagan ways, while the men tended to hold on to them longer, being
generally more conservative in their idealised views on the greatness of
the Empire."

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