{"id":31828,"date":"2014-12-31T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31828"},"modified":"2015-12-31T08:31:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T12:31:14","slug":"saint-sylvester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/saint-sylvester\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Sylvester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/St-Sylvester.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31829 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/St-Sylvester-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"St Sylvester\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/St-Sylvester-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/St-Sylvester.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>On this final day of the civil year Mother Church honors the memory of Pope Saint\u00a0Sylvester, who guided the Church with his teaching and life\u00a0during the persecutions of Diocletian, and during\u00a0the period\u00a0of Arianism and the Council of Nic\u00e6a. That his feast day is so close to Christmas ought to indicate to us that he had concern for the Christology of Catholic belief and life.<\/p>\n<p>Pope\u00a0Sylvester&#8217;s pontifical ministry saw the construction\u00a0of great churches in Rome by Constantine, namely the basilica and baptistery of the Lateran near the former imperial Lateran palace where the pope lived (he now resides at the Vatican), the basilica of the Sessorian palace (the Basilica of Santa Croce where the relics of the holy passion are located), the first Church of St. Peter on Vatican Hill, and several cemeterial churches over the graves of martyrs.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point for this blog, and the desire to live in a theology of communion, the sainted Pope contributed to the development of the sacred Liturgy of the Roman Church and drew together the first martyrology of Roman martyrs. Moreover, Sylvester established of the Roman school of chant and music.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Pope Saint Sylvester\u00a0is buried at the Church connected with the Catacomb of Priscilla.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this final day of the civil year Mother Church honors the memory of Pope Saint\u00a0Sylvester, who guided the Church with his teaching and life\u00a0during the persecutions of Diocletian, and during\u00a0the period\u00a0of Arianism and the Council of Nic\u00e6a. That his feast day is so close to Christmas ought to indicate to us that he had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/saint-sylvester\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Sylvester<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3198,1759,32136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31831,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions\/31831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}