21 September 687 A.D. Conan Dies—Rome’s 83rd; Received Irish Missionaries
Mann, Horace. "Pope Conon." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert
Appleton Company, 1908.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04258a.htm. Accessed 18 Jul 2014.
Pope Conon
Date of birth unknown; d., after a long illness, 21 September, 687. The son, seemingly, of an officer in the Thracesian troop, he was educated in Sicily and ordained priest at Rome. His age, venerable appearance, and simple character caused the clergy and soldiery of Rome, who were in disagreement, to put aside their respective candidates and to elect him as pope. He was consecrated (21 October, 686) after notice of hiselection had been sent to the Exarch of Ravenna, or after it had been confirmed by him. He received the Irishmissionaries, St. Kilian and his companions, consecrated Kilian bishop, and commissioned him and the others to preach the Faith in Franconia. (Vita S. Kiliani, in Canisius, Lect. Antiquæ, III, 175-180.) He was in favour with the savage Emperor Justinian II who informed him that he had recovered the Acts of the Sixth General Council, by which, he wrote, it was his intention to abide. Justinian also remitted certain taxes and dues owing to the imperial exchequer from several papal patrimonies.
Acta
SS.,
8 July, II, 612 sq.; DUCHESNE ed., Liber Pontificalis, I, 368 sq.; MANN, Lives of the Popes, I, pt. II, 72 sq.
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