Hilary

Hilario (Sardinia, c. 415-Rome, February 29, 468) He was the 46th Pope of the Catholic Church, between 461 and 468.

As archdeacon he acted as legate of Leo I the Great at the Council of Ephesus held in 449 and known as the "theft of Ephesus" opposing the condemnation of Flaviano of Constantinople, which meant facing the Monophysite Alexandrian patriarch Dioscorus and being forced to move away from both Constantinople and Rome to save his life.

Much of his pontificate was spent maintaining church discipline in accordance with canon law and resolving jurisdictional disputes between the bishops of Gaul and Spain.

He devoted special attention to the ecclesiastical order of Spain and Gaul which, after the barbarian invasions, found themselves in chaos.

Hilario had two oratories built in the Lateran baptistery, one in honor of Saint John the Baptist and the other dedicated to the Apostle Saint John, to whose intercession he attributed his salvation after his intervention at the Council of Ephesus. He also had a chapel of the Holy Cross erected in the baptistery, a convent, two public baths and libraries next to the basilica of San Lorenzo Outside the Walls, where he was buried after his death in 468.