Agatho
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In the year 680 he assisted in a council held by pope Agatho at Rome, and the year following in the sixth general council held at Constantinople against the Monothelites.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
The following saying of a saint of the desert, Abbot Agatho, is reported by Dr. Newman, who tells it as something wise and good.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
Pope Agatho and his council decreed that Wilfrith should be reinstated, that his diocese should be divided, but that he should choose the new bishops, and that Theodore’s bishops should be turned out.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt
Then they said, ‘Are not you Agatho the heretic?’
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
Agatho, a man of a pious turn of mind, with Cassice, Phillippa, and Eutychia, were martyred about the same time; but the particulars have not been transmitted to us.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
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