November
21
164 BC Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family,
restored the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the
festival of Hanukkah.
235 St. Anterus became Roman Catholic pope. He was Pope
from November 21, 235 to January 3, 236, and succeeded Pope Pontian, who had
been deported from Rome along with the antipope Hippolytus to Sardinia. Anterus
was the son of Romulus, born in Petilia Policastro and is thought to have been
of Greek origin, but the name could indicate that he was a freed slave. He died
on January 3, 236 of undetermined causes.
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