Commemoration Of St. Sylvester IPope and Confessor
Under the pontificate of this holy Pope, Saint Sylvester (314-335), the Church, after three hundred years of persecution, begins to enjoy liberty, and spreads in the Roman Empire; and the Council of Nicaea (325) establishes against the heretic Arius the doctrine of the eternal Divinity of the Saviour.
O God, who didst solidly found Thy Church on the apostolic rock and dost shield her from the dreaded gates of hell, grant, we beseech Thee, through the intercession of blessed Sylvester, Thy Sovereign Pontiff, that under Thy sure protection she may persevere in Thy truth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with Thee and Thy Holy Ghost, one God, now and forever. Amen
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