Pope Saint Simplicius was Pope

Pope

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 from 468 to March 10, 483.

He was born in Tivoli, Italy

Tivoli, Italy

Tivoli , the classical Tibur, is an ancient Italian town in Lazio, about 30 km east-north-east of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine hills...

, the son of a citizen named Castinus. Most of what is known of him is derived from the Liber Pontificalis

Liber Pontificalis

The Liber Pontificalis is a book of biographies of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century. The original publication of the Liber Pontificalis stopped with Pope Adrian II or Pope Stephen V , but it was later supplemented in a different style until Pope Eugene IV and then Pope Pius II...

.

Simplicius defended the action of the Council of Chalcedon

Council of Chalcedon

The Council of Chalcedon was a church council held from 8 October to 1 November, 451 AD, at Chalcedon , on the Asian side of the Bosporus. The council marked a significant turning point in the Christological debates that led to the separation of the church of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 5th...

 against the Eutychian heresy, labored to help the people of Italy

Italy

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 against the marauding raids of barbarian invaders, and saw the Heruli

Heruli

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 mercenaries revolt and proclaim Odoacer

Odoacer

Flavius Odoacer , also known as Flavius Odovacer, was the first King of Italy. His reign is commonly seen as marking the end of the Western Roman Empire. Though the real power in Italy was in his hands, he represented himself as the client of Julius Nepos and, after Nepos' death in 480, of the...

 king of Italy in 476, having deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor. Odoacer made few changes in the administration in Rome, firmly in the hands of its Bishop, St. Simplicius. He worked to maintain the authority of Rome

Rome

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 in the West.

Simplicius is credited for the construction of a church

Santa Bibiana

Santa Bibiana is a small church in Rome, devoted to St Bibiana. It was initially built by Pope Simplicius, and consecrated in 467. The church was restored by Pope Honorius III in 1224....

 named in memory of the virgin and martyr St. Bibiana.

St. Simplicius's feast day is celebrated on March 10, the day of his death.

External links

• Opera Omnia by Migne, Patrologia Latina with analytical indexes. This links also holds the Vita Operaque section by Libro Pontificali