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We're happy to present True Heroes, a series of stories of the lives of the saints presented by Father Thomas Tam.

Who the day before he suffered took bread into his holy and venerable hands and with his eyes lifted up to heaven.

Hey, hey, welcome to true heroes.

Today we will be talking about the Pope St. Alexander I, and we will be merely mentioning

a couple of other saints today.

We do not know much about those other saints other than that they were

attributed to Pope Alexander. So let's get into his story now. Alexander comes from the Greek

and means defender of men. He was Pope from 107 to 115.

He was the sixth pope.

So let's see if I can get this right from memory.

We have St. Peter, the first, obviously, and the only.

The second pope was St. Linus.

Third was St. Cletus, which was episode four of our True Heroes podcast.

So if you want to know more about St. Cletus, you can go back to that one, episode four.

The fourth Pope was St. Clement.

And after St. Clement was St. Everestistus and then number six was St. Alexander

the first. He was a Roman and is said to have been a student of Pliny the Younger. As I said,

we don't know very much about him. There is a legend that says he converted his jailer,

who ended up becoming St. Quirinus, and also his daughter, St. Balbina. He also introduced a variety

of customs that seems so commonplace in the Catholic Church today.

The first is the concept of holy water.

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