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Most of his actions involve his relationship with Emperor Constantine. Constantine suffered from leprosy, and after baptism at the hands of Sylvester the emperor was cured. With this miracle wrought at the hands of the Pope, the emperor gave many gifts to the Church including the provinces of Italy that until the 19th century made up the Papal States. Many large Roman buildings were given which became churches. Some consider the account of his baptism a fabrication, but there is no doubt Sylvester had a great effect in the completion of Constantine's conversion, and records that distant are often difficult to uphold or refute.

Not only is the account of his baptism of Constantine a fabrication, nearly the entire story is a fabrication. It isn't necessary to find an "anti" source to debunk this fiction.

Pope St. Sylvester I (314-335)

Date of birth unknown; d. 31 December, 335. According to the "Liber pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, I, 170) he was the son of a Roman named Rufinus; the legendary "Vita beati Sylvestri" calls his mother Justa. After the death of Miltiades (Melchiades), Sylvester was made Bishop of Rome and occupied this position twenty-one years. This was the era of Constantine the Great, when the public position of the Church so greatly improved, a change which must certainly have been very noticeable at Rome; it is consequently to be regretted that there is so little authoritative information concerning Sylvester's pontificate. At an early date legend brings him into close relationship wtih the first Christian emperor, but in a way that is contrary to historical fact. These legends were introduced especially into the "Vita beati Sylvestri" (Duchesne, loc. cit., Introd., cix sq.) which appeared in the East and has been preserved in Greek, Syriac, and Latin in the "Constitutum Sylvestri"–an apocryphal account of an alleged Roman council which belongs to the Symmachian forgeries and appeared between 501 and 508, and also in the "Donatio Constantini". The accounts given in all these writings concerning the persecution of Sylvester, the healing and baptism of Constantine, the emperor's gift to the pope, the rights granted to the latter, and the council of 275 bishops at Rome, are entirely legendary.

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You saw the word "pope" and couldn't help but come on and sneer.

You couldn't even be polite, could you? Lady In Blue makes one mistake out of all the saint threads she posts, and there you are to spew your crap. Trolling for mistakes so you can rub it in? I could follow you around all day point out the mistakes of your sola scriptura yopios, but don't have the faintest interest in your dull religion.

You should stop celebrating Christmas on Dec 25, as that date was set by Catholic church...and in fact you should stop saying the word "Christmas" as it means "Christ's Mass." Oh! Can't have that...it means something Catholic!

Go ahead and flag a hundred of your buddies to come and see you tell me off! I couldn't care less. Hater!