Pope St. Silverius (Ceccano, Frosinone 480 - Palmarola, Ponza 537)
When he stood up against the Byzantine court to defend the Church against the Monophysites, they took off his papal robes and let him die of hunger and thirst on the island of Palmarola, naked like Jesus on the cross, but could not took off him the apostolic spirit that had been passed on into him when Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit into the first apostles.
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