{"id":34870,"date":"2017-11-23T11:18:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T15:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34870"},"modified":"2017-11-24T08:35:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T12:35:51","slug":"st-clement-of-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/st-clement-of-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"St Clement of Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clement was a disciple of Ss. Peter and Paul from whom he learned about Jesus and the new Way. Much of what we know about Clement comes from his epistle to the Church at\u00a0Corinth (an example of pastoral concern and paternal prudence).\u00a0Yet, our knowledge of Clement comes\u00a0through the witness of\u00a0St. Irenaeus spent significant time with the Church at Rome, before\u00a0serving as bishop of Lyon from approximately AD 177. Irenaeus was a pupil of Polycarp.\u00a0The Roman Christians chose him as their bishop to succeed Linus and Cletus who briefly held that office before being martyred.<\/p>\n

Its antiquity ranks Clement as the first of the great Apostolic Fathers. Tradition holds that after being tried for his faith Clement was exiled to hard labor in the Crimea, where he was believed to have been martyred. His relics were returned to Rome by St. Cyril, who reportedly discovered them on one of his early missionary journeys to the region. The relics\u00a0were placed in what is now called St. Clement\u2019s church in Rome (now under the direction of the Order of Preachers), where Cyril himself was buried when he died while he and Methodius were in Rome preparing for their mission among the Slavs.<\/p>\n

The importance of St. Clement is his understanding of\u00a0ecclesial authority and the life of the Christian in the face of said authority. As St. Irenaeus says, Clement had \u201cthe preaching of the apostles \u2026 echoing [in his ears], and their traditions before his eyes.\u201d Is this true for us today? Do we have the\u00a0preaching of the apostles echoing in my ears, and the traditions of the apostles before my eyes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clement was a disciple of Ss. Peter and Paul from whom he learned about Jesus and the new Way. Much of what we know about Clement comes from his epistle to the Church at\u00a0Corinth (an example of pastoral concern and paternal prudence).\u00a0Yet, our knowledge of Clement comes\u00a0through the witness of\u00a0St. Irenaeus spent significant time with … Continue reading St Clement of Rome<\/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":[3139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34870"}],"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=34870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34872,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34870\/revisions\/34872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}