Editing Pope Hyginus (section)

==History==
According to the ''[[Liber Pontificalis]]'', Hyginus was a [[Greeks|Greek]] by birth.<ref name=kirsch>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07593a.htm Kirsch, Johann Peter. "Pope St. Hyginus." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 13 Mar. 2015]</ref> [[Irenaeus]] says that the [[Valentinus (Gnostic)|gnostic Valentinus]] came to [[Rome]] in Hyginus' time, remaining there until [[Pope Anicetus|Anicetus]] became [[pontiff]].<ref>''[[On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis]]'', III, iii</ref>

[[Cerdo (gnostic)|Cerdo]], another [[Gnostic]] and predecessor of [[Marcion of Sinope]], also lived at Rome in the reign of Hyginus; by confessing his errors and recanting, he succeeded in obtaining readmission into the Church but eventually fell back into heresy and was expelled from the Church.<ref name=Butler>[http://www.bartleby.com/210/1/112.html Butler, Alban. "St. Hyginus, Pope and Martyr", ''The Lives of the Saints'', vol.1, 1866]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mftPAAAAMAAJ&dq=Pope+Hyginus&pg=RA1-PA178 Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 5]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=W6MNZnozIGsC&q=Cerdo&pg=PT75 The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Gnostic GospelsBy J. Michael Matkin]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XfpaHWR9WL0C&dq=Pope+Hyginus&pg=PA96 Saint Clement, Pope and Martyr, and His Basilica in Rome]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=nXEiAQAAMAAJ&dq=Pope+Hyginus&pg=PP772 The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: In which the Whole Circle of Human Learning is Explained, and the Difficulties Attending the Acquisition of Every Art, Whether Liberal Or Mechanical, are Removed ... The Theological, Philological, and Critical Branches, Volume 2]</ref>
The ''Liber Pontificalis'' also relates that this pope organized the hierarchy and established the order of ecclesiastical precedence (''{{lang|la|Hic clerum composuit et distribuit gradus}}'').<ref name=kirsch/> This general observation recurs also in the biography of [[Pope Hormisdas]]. According to [[Louis Duchesne]], the writer probably referred to the lower orders of the clergy.<ref name=kirsch/>

The ancient sources contain no information as to his having died a [[martyr]]. At his death he was buried on the [[Vatican Hill]], near [[Saint Peter's tomb]]. His [[calendar of saints|feast]] is celebrated on 11 January.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ncBOAAAAMAAJ&q=Pope+Hyginus Maryknoll Missal: Formerly Published as Daily Missal of the Mystical Body]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1OYpAQAAMAAJ&q=Pope+Hyginus New Catholic encyclopedia, Volume 7]</ref>

His feast day in the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] is also 11 January.<ref>January 24 / January 11. https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/htc/orthodox-calendar/</ref>