Apr 13

Saint Martín I papa

April 13th VII century Mártir Papa

Saint Martín I, Pope and martyr, condemned the heresy of the monoteletas at the Council of Lateran and, by order of the Emperor constant II, was ripped out of its headquarters by the Exarch Caliopa, who entered forcibly into the basilica of Lateran, by sending to the Pontiff to Constantinople and enclosing it in a hard Dungeon under close surveillance, being finally banished to the Chersonesuswhere, after about two years, concluded their tribulations, reaching eternal Crown.