Pope Saint John I –Image: Saint Mary’s Press
(Franciscan Media) Born in Italy Tuscany, we don’t know much about Pope Saint John I earliest days, we do know according to EWTN that he occupied the Apostolic See for just a little more than 2.50 yrs during the period of the Arian heresy–denied the divinity of Christ.
When the Eastern Emperor began imposing sever measures on the Arians of his area, the Western Emperor forced Pope John I, to head a delegation to the East to soften the measures of the heretics. Little is known of the manner or outcome of the negotiations, designed to secure continued toleration of the Catholics in the West.
On Pope John I way home, he was imprisoned in Italy Ravenna and deprived of food because the Emperor suspected a conspiracy of his throne, shortly thereafter he died on this date in 526