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42-1259: (Redirected from Damaso ) Dámaso is a Spanish masculine given name. The name is equivalent to that of Pope Damasus I in English. The name also exists in Italian as Damaso , though it is uncommon. People [ edit ] Dámaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen (1873–1953), Spanish soldier and politician Dámaso Blanco (born 1941), Venezuelan baseball third baseman Dámaso Centeno (1850–1892), Argentine politician and orphanage founder Dámaso Espino (born 1983), Panamanian baseball catcher Dámaso García (1957–2020), Dominican baseball player Dámaso González (1948–2017), Spanish bullfighter Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga (1771–1848), Uruguayan priest, naturalist and botanist Dámaso Marte (born 1975), Dominican Major League Baseball relief pitcher Dámaso Pérez Prado (1916–1989), Cuban musician Dámaso Rodríguez Martín "El Brujo" (1945–1991), Spanish serial killer Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer (1949–2009), Spanish jurist Dámaso de Toro , Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1701 Father Dámaso ,

84-722: A "funerary basilica ... somewhere between the Via Appia and Via Ardeatina ", the exact location of which is lost. Since 2011, this saint has given its name to the San Damaso Ecclesiastical University , a Catholic center of higher education belonging to the Archbishopric of Madrid, in Spain, where theology, Canon Law, Religious Sciences, Christian and Classical Literature, and Philosophy can be studied. Council of Rome The previous year,

126-911: A character in José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere Other [ edit ] San Lorenzo in Damaso , a basilica in Rome Instituto Social Militar Dr. Dámaso Centeno , a charity school in Buenos Aires Mariano Dámaso Beraun District , one of six districts within the Peruvian province of Leoncio Prado Universidad Católica del Uruguay Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga , a Jesuit university in Montevideo [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share

168-429: A final assault against some Ursinian supporters who had fled to the cemetery of Saint Agnes, slaying many. Church historians such as Jerome and Rufinus championed Damasus. At a synod in 378, Ursinus was condemned and Damasus exonerated and declared the true pope. The former antipope continued to intrigue against Damasus for the next few years and unsuccessfully attempted to revive his claim on Damasus's death. Ursinus

210-610: A joint synodal letter to Pope Damasus , Ambrose, archbishop of Milan , and the other bishops assembled in the council at Rome. Jerome mentioned the synod twice, but only in passing. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states: A council probably held at Rome in 382 under St. Damasus gave a complete list of the canonical books of both the Old Testament and the New Testament (also known as

252-416: A petition to the civil authority on the part of Faustinus and Marcellinus  [ ru ] , two anti-Damasan presbyters. Such was the violence and bloodshed that the two prefects of the city were called in to restore order, and after a first setback, when they were driven to the suburbs and a massacre of 137 was perpetrated in the basilica of Sicininus (the modern Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ),

294-555: A priest. This later became the basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls in Rome. Damasus was archdeacon of the Roman church when Pope Liberius was banished by Emperor Constantius II to Berea in 354. Damasus followed Liberius into exile, though he immediately returned to Rome. During the period before Liberius' return, Damasus had a great share in the government of the church. In

336-411: A prominent place in his councils. Jerome spent three years (382–385) in Rome in close intercourse with Pope Damasus and the leading Christians. Writing in 409, Jerome remarked, "A great many years ago when I was helping Damasus, bishop of Rome with his ecclesiastical correspondence, and writing his answers to the questions referred to him by the councils of the east and west..." In order to put an end to

378-529: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Pope Damasus I Pope Damasus I ( / ˈ d æ m ə s ə s / ; c. 305 – 11 December 384), also known as Damasus of Rome , was the bishop of Rome from October 366 to his death in 384. He presided over the Council of Rome of 382 that determined the canon or official list of sacred scripture. He spoke out against major heresies (including Apollinarianism and Macedonianism ), thus solidifying

420-525: Is more familiarly known as the opening part of the Gelasian Decree, in regard to the canon of Scripture: De libris recipiendis vel non-recipiendis. It is now commonly held that the part of the Gelasian Decree dealing with the accepted canon of Scripture is an authentic work of the Council of Rome of 382 A.D. and that Gelasius edited it again at the end of the fifth century, adding to it the catalog of

462-659: Is not found in it shall perish when the flood prevails. But since by reason of my sins I have betaken myself to this desert which lies between Syria and the uncivilized waste, I cannot, owing to the great distance between us, always ask of your sanctity the holy thing of the Lord. Consequently I here follow the Egyptian confessors who share your faith, and anchor my frail craft under the shadow of their great argosies. I know nothing of Vitalis; I reject Meletius; I have nothing to do with Paulinus. He that gathers not with you scatters; he that

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504-584: Is not of Christ is of Antichrist. The Eastern Church, in the person of Basil of Caesarea , earnestly sought the aid and encouragement of Damasus against an apparently triumphant Arianism . Damasus, however, harbored some degree of suspicion against the great Cappadocian Doctor of the Church . In the matter of the Meletian Schism at Antioch, Damasus – together with Athanasius of Alexandria , and his successor, Peter II of Alexandria – sympathized with

546-423: Is overweening; let the state of Roman majesty withdraw. My words are spoken to the successor of the fisherman, to the disciple of the cross. As I follow no leader save Christ, so I communicate with none but your blessedness, that is with the chair of Peter. For this, I know, is the rock on which the church is built! This is the house where alone the paschal lamb can be rightly eaten. This is the ark of Noah, and he who

588-658: Is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church ; his feast day is 11 December. His life coincided with the rise of Emperor Constantine I and the reunion and re-division of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires , which is associated with the legitimization of Christianity and its later adoption as the official religion of the Roman state in 380 . The reign of Gratian , which coincided with Damasus' papacy, forms an important epoch in ecclesiastical history, since during that period (359–383), Catholic Christianity for

630-571: Is tempered by some perplexity as to their exact standing, and among those we note St. Thomas Aquinas. Few are found to unequivocally acknowledge their canonicity. The prevailing attitude of Western medieval authors is substantially that of the Greek Fathers. The chief cause of this phenomenon in the West is to be sought in the influence, direct and indirect, of St. Jerome's depreciating Prologus. Significant scholarly doubts and disagreements about

672-473: The First Council of Constantinople that was convoked in 381 to address these heresies . One of the important works of Pope Damasus was to preside in the Council of Rome of 382, which determined the canon or official list of Sacred Scripture. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states: A council probably held at Rome in 382 under Damasus gave a complete list of the canonical books of both

714-654: The Projecta Casket in the British Museum may have been made for her) as "a tissue of tags and clichés shakily strung together and barely squeezed into the meter". Damasus has been described as "the first society Pope", and was possibly a member of a group of Hispanic Christians, largely related to each other, who were close to the Hispanic Theodosius I . A number of images of "DAMAS" in gold glass cups probably represent him and seem to be

756-660: The ' Gelasian Decree ' because it was reproduced by Gelasius in 495), which is identical with the list given at Trent . The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church also notes that "according to E. von Dobschütz , the Gelasian Decree is not a Papal work at all, but a private compilation which was composed in Italy (but not at Rome) in the early 6th cent. Other scholars, while accepting this date, think it originated in Gaul ". Catholic apologist and historian William Jurgens writes: The first part of this decree has long been known as

798-576: The Basilica of Julius and a three-day slaughtering of those assembled there took place. After gaining control of the Lateran basilica Damasus was then ordained as bishop in the cathedral of Rome. However, Damasus was accused of bribing the urban officials of Rome to have Ursinus and chief supporters exiled, including some presbyters. As a result of this attempt, some of the (apparently quite numerous) supporters of Ursinus interrupted this process and rescued

840-636: The Decree of Damasus, and concerns the Holy Spirit and the seven-fold gifts. The second part of the decree is more familiarly known as the opening part of the Gelasian Decree , in regard to the canon of Scripture: De libris recipiendis vel non recipiendis . It is now commonly held that the part of the Gelasian Decree dealing with the accepted canon of Scripture is an authentic work of the Council of Rome of 382 A.D. and that Gelasius edited it again at

882-691: The Emperor Theodosius I had appointed the candidate Nectarius as Archbishop of Constantinople . The bishops of the West opposed the election result and asked for a common synod of East and West to settle the succession of the see of Constantinople , and so the Emperor Theodosius, soon after the close of the First Council of Constantinople in 381, summoned the Imperial bishops to a fresh synod at Constantinople; nearly all of

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924-408: The Old Testament and the New Testament (also known as the ' Gelasian Decree ' because it was reproduced by Gelasius in 495), which is identical with the list given at Trent. American Catholic priest and historian William Jurgens stated : "The first part of this decree has long been known as the Decree of Damasus, and concerns the Holy Spirit and the seven-fold gifts. The second part of the decree

966-456: The age of almost eighty". Damasus may be the author of the anonymous Carmen contra paganos (song against the pagans). The letters from Jerome to Damasus are examples of the primacy of the See of Peter: Yet, though your greatness terrifies me, your kindness attracts me. From the priest I demand the safe-keeping of the victim, from the shepherd the protection due to the sheep. Away with all that

1008-655: The biblical canon in the West . Nonetheless, as the Catholic Encyclopedia states, In the Latin Church, all through the Middle Ages we find evidence of hesitation about the character of the deuterocanonicals. There is a current friendly to them, another one distinctly unfavourable to their authority and sacredness, while wavering between the two are a number of writers whose veneration for these books

1050-423: The early Church , bishops were customarily elected by the clergy and the people of the diocese. While this simple method worked well in a small community of Christians unified by persecution, as the congregation grew in size, the acclamation of a new bishop was fraught with division, and rival claimants and a certain class hostility between patrician and plebeian candidates unsettled some episcopal elections. At

1092-650: The election of Damasus. The two were elected simultaneously (Damasus' election was held in San Lorenzo in Lucina ). J. N. D. Kelly states that Damasus hired a gang of thugs that stormed the Julian Basilica , carrying out a three-day massacre of the Ursinians. Thomas Shahan says details of this scandalous conflict are related in the highly prejudiced "Libellus precum ad Imperatores" (P.L., XIII, 83–107),

1134-561: The faith of the Catholic Church , and encouraged production of the Vulgate Bible with his support for Jerome . He helped reconcile the relations between the Church of Rome and the Church of Antioch , and encouraged the veneration of martyrs. As well as various prose letters and other pieces Damasus was the author of Latin verse. Alan Cameron describes his epitaph for a young girl called Projecta (of great interest to scholars as

1176-465: The first contemporary images of a pope to survive, though there is no real attempt at a likeness. "Damas" appears with other figures, including a Florus who may be Projecta's father. It has been suggested that Damasus or another of the group commissioned and distributed these to friends or supporters, as part of a programme "insistently inserting his episcopal presence in the Christian landscape". He

1218-632: The first time became dominant throughout the empire. Under the influence of Ambrose, Gratian refused to wear the insignia of the pontifex maximus as unbefitting a Christian, removed the Altar of Victory from the Senate at Rome , despite protests from the pagan members of the Senate. Emperor Gratian also forbade legacies of real property to the Vestals and abolished other privileges belonging to them and to

1260-700: The marked divergences in the western texts of that period, Damasus encouraged the highly respected scholar Jerome to revise the available Old Latin versions of the Bible into a more accurate Latin on the basis of the Greek New Testament and the Septuagint , resulting in the Vulgate . According to Protestant biblical scholar, F.F. Bruce , the commissioning of the Vulgate was a key moment in fixing

1302-521: The nature of the Apocrypha continued for centuries and even into Trent, which provided the first infallible definition of the Catholic canon in 1546. Jerome devoted a very brief notice to Damasus in his De Viris Illustribus , written after Damasus' death: "he had a fine talent for making verses and published many brief works in heroic metre. He died in the reign of the emperor Theodosius at

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1344-526: The party of Paulinus as more sincerely representative of Nicene orthodoxy. On the death of Meletius he sought to secure the succession for Paulinus and to exclude Flavian . During his papacy, Peter II of Alexandria sought refuge in Rome from the persecuting Arians. He was received by Damasus, who supported him against the Arians. Damasus supported the appeal of the Christian senators to Emperor Gratian for

1386-492: The pontiffs. Pope Damasus I was either born in Rome, or in Lusitania around 305, before moving to Rome at a young age with his parents. Damasus' parents were Antonius, who became a priest at the Church of St. Lawrence (San Lorenzo) in Rome, and his wife Laurentia. Both parents originally came from the region of Lusitania. Damasus began his ecclesiastical career as a deacon in his father's church, where he went on to serve as

1428-426: The prefects banished Ursinus to Gaul . There was further violence when he returned, which continued after Ursinus was exiled again. Another ancient narrative of events, the "Gesta" (dated to 368 A.D.), provides more detail. It describes Ursinus as being the valid successor to Liberius, and Damasus as following a heretical interloper, Felix. This account also records that an armed force instigated by Damasus broke into

1470-533: The presbyters, taking them to the Basilica of Liberius (identified as the "basilica of Sicinnius"), the apparent headquarters of the Ursinian sect. Damasus then responded by ordering an attack against the Liberian basilica, resulting in another massacre: "They broke down the doors and set fire underneath it, then rushed in...and killed a hundred and sixty of the people inside, both men and women." Damasus next sent

1512-462: The rejected books, the apocrypha. It is now almost universally accepted that these parts one and two of the Decree of Damasus are authentic parts of the Acts of the Council of Rome of 382 A.D." Pope Damasus appointed Jerome of Stridon as his confidential secretary. Invited to Rome originally to a synod of 382 convened to end the schism of Antioch , he made himself indispensable to the pope, and took

1554-982: The removal of the altar of Victory from the Senate House, and lived to welcome the famous edict of Theodosius I , "De fide Catholica" (27 February 380), which proclaimed as the religion of the Roman State that doctrine which Peter had preached to the Romans. Damasus also did much to encourage the veneration of the Christian martyrs , restoring and creating access to their tombs in the Catacombs of Rome and elsewhere, and setting up tablets with verse inscriptions composed by himself, several of which survive or are recorded in his Epigrammata . Damasus rebuilt or repaired his father's church named for Laurence , known as San Lorenzo fuori le Mura ("St Lawrence outside

1596-416: The same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dámaso&oldid=1159997549 " Categories : Given names Spanish masculine given names Masculine given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

1638-403: The same bishops who had attended the earlier synod re-assembled in the early summer of 382. On arrival they received a letter from the synod of Milan , inviting them to a great general council at Rome ; they indicated that they must remain where they were, because they had not made any preparations for such long a journey; however, they sent three—Syriacus, Eusebius, and Priscian—with

1680-506: The same time, 4th-century emperors expected each new pope-elect to be presented to them for approval, which sometimes led to state domination of the Church's internal affairs. Following the death of Pope Liberius on 24 September 366, Damasus succeeded to the Papacy amidst factional violence. The deacons and laity supported Liberius' deacon Ursinus . The upper-class former partisans of Felix , who had ruled during Liberius' exile, supported

1722-465: The walls"), which by the 7th century was a station on the itineraries of the graves of the Roman martyrs. Damasus' regard for the Roman martyr is attested also by the tradition according to which the Pope built a church devoted to Laurence in his own house, San Lorenzo in Damaso . Damasus was pope for eighteen years and two months. His feast day is 11 December. He was buried beside his mother and sister in

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1764-603: Was among the Arian party in Milan , according to Ambrose . Damasus faced accusations of murder and adultery in his early years as pope. The accuracy of these claims has come into question with some suggesting that the accusations were motivated by the conflict with the supporters of Arianism . Damasus I was active in defending the Catholic Church against the threat of schisms . In two Roman synods (368 and 369) he condemned Apollinarianism and Macedonianism , and sent legates to

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