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| | Lives of the Saints, October 7, OUR LADY of the ROSARY, Saint Mark, pope |
 | | Saint Mark, a Roman by birth, succeeded Saint Sylvester in the apostolic chair on the 18 |
 | | During his brief pontificate of eight months, Saint Mark ordained twenty-five priests; he sent for the first time the pallium, symbol of a superior episcopal authority, to the bishop of Ostia, and established by a constitution that the bishop of that see alone would have the right to consecrate future popes. |
 | | This Pope witnessed a turning point of the conflict between the Church and Arianism; the heresiarch himself was struck down by the hand of God at the very moment he was expecting to triumph, and the Arians themselves were frozen in fear. |
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