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guthmund · 04-05-2005, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Mbwuto

http://www.rcan.org/bca/bcasaints.htm. granted there's no credit or date for the picture of Miltiades, but that definitly seems to imply that the Father was a Brother.

Well, I'll be damned.

Well, then why is everyone talking about the possibility of the first black Pope? It seems pretty clear from that drawing that Miltiades was black. *shakes head

And my how times change. Miltiades managed to make the Papacy and was black, while above him St. Martin DePorres, born several hundred years later, "...friend to Spanish, Indians, Negroes and all people" wasn't even ordained as a priest due to his race.