βͺ Saint of the Day : January 3
(A.D. 236)
[Commemorated in the Roman Martyrology, and in that attributed to Bede, that of Usuardus]
SAINT ANTEROS succeeded St. Pontianus as Bishop of Rome in 235. He instituted the office of notaries in the Church, to take down the sayings and sufferings of the martyrs, so that faithful records of their acts might be preserved. He died, June 18 th, A.D. 236.
Source : The Lives of the Saints - Baring-Gould Sabine
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