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I'm Dr. Elizabeth Klein, and I'm joined today by Dr. Jean-Paul-Juge to talk about Pont-Saint-Sylvestre.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you.

I'm happy to be here.

So, Dr. Juge is new here, and I thought I would kick

off by just asking him what he's been reading lately. What have been reading about? Yeah,

well, in our patristic seminar, we have been studying Augustine's Totus Christus, right,

reading of the Psalms, how he reads the Psalms from the perspective of the whole Christ,

both head and members. So I've been preparing for that, reading a lot of Guston.

Awesome. So you've been in the time period of today's saint, because Pope as St. Sylvester

reigned from 314 to 335, so he is a early 4th century pope. And his feast day is 31st of December.

So why don't you give us a little snapshot of Pope Sylvester? Great. Yeah. Now, unfortunately,

we don't know as much as we would like about Pope St. Sylvester, but that also puts me on

equal footing for being a world's expert.

It doesn't take terribly too much research.

So we know a couple of things, right?

The biggest event in church history during his reign was Constantine's officially allowing Christian worship in the empire and also the Council of Nicaea, which famously condemned Arias, affirmed the full divinity of Christ and, you know, tried to settle the date of Easter. So a lot of major events

in church history are happening during his reign. Awesome. And I did notice what the dates,

314 is, for the listeners who may not know, Constantine legalized Christianity in the Empire 313. So we were joking before about this podcast that he sort of like was the first pope after Christianity went public. That's right. That's like, that's kind of a bigger, you're taking the church into the next era. It's going global. You're in the public eye now, yeah, in a different way.

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