I was having difficulty choosing a saint for today (still welcoming suggestions for this final week of November), so I will pick a name from TV -- see if you can guess what I'm watching.
Pope St. Linus was the second Bishop of Rome - the second Pope, succeeding Peter in about 67 AD. The earliest witness to Linus's status as bishop was Irenaeus, who in about the year 180 wrote, "The blessed apostles, then, having founded and built up the Church, committed into the hands of Linus the office of the episcopate." Irenaeus identifies Linus with the associate of Paul by the same name mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:21.
Little is known of Linus' life. According to the Liber Pontificalis (The Book of the Popes written centuries later), Linus was an Italian born in Volterra in the Tuscany region. His father's name was recorded as Herculanus. The Apostolic Constitutions name his mother as Claudia. He served as Pope for about 9 years.
His feast day is September 23.
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