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| | ST. PONTIAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | In the mines he had as companion none other than the antipope Hippolytus. |
 | | This priest, it may be remembered, had been so disgusted with Pope Calixtus and his edict of mercy that he had revolted and set himself up as antipope. |
 | | He made a good end, dying a confessor of Christ, and it is touching that down to this day, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Pontian, the Pope, and St. Hippolytus, once antipope, on the same day, November 19. |
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