Pope Saint Hyginus
Also known as
- Hygin
- Igino
Profile
Pope during a period of relative peace with no official persecutions of the early Church, but was forced to deal with with a series of heretic sects and preachers regularly popping up.
Born
- Athens, Greece
Papal Ascension
- c.138
- 142 in Rome, Italy
- often listed as a martyr since so many of the early popes were, but there is no evidence of it for Hyginus
- buried on Vatican Hill near the tomb of Saint Peter the Apostle
MLA Citation
- “Pope Saint Hyginus“. CatholicSaints.Info. 23 June 2016. Web. 25 September 2016. <>