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ST DAMASUS
Pope Damasus is said in the Pontifical to have been a Spaniard; which may be true of his extraction, but Tillemont and Merenda show that he seems to have been born at Rome. His father, whose name was Antony, either after the death of his wife or by her free consent, engaged himself in an ecclesiastical state, and was successively reader, deacon, and priest, of the title or parish Church of St. Laurence in Rome. [eng]
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Patron Saints Index: Pope Damasus I
Raised in a pious family, his father was a priest in Rome, and Damasus served for a time as deacon in his father's church. Priest. Assistant to Pope Liberius. Pope in a disputed election in which a minority chose the anti-pope Ursinus. The two reigned simultaneously in Rome which eventually led to violence between their supporters and Damasus's false accusation of a crime.
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