Editing Pope Paschal I (section)

==Early life==
According to the ''[[Liber Pontificalis]]'', Paschal was a native of Lazio [[Rome]] born Pascale Massimi and son of Bonosus and [[Episcopa Theodora]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Paschal I, the Church of Santa Prassede and the Question of a 'Carolingian Renovatio' in Rome |date=2023 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rome-in-the-ninth-century/paschal-i-the-church-of-santa-prassede-and-the-question-of-a-carolingian-renovatio-in-rome/9D3E74B95672738C89FCCE8E30E8CB1A |work=Rome in the Ninth Century: A History in Art |series=British School at Rome Studies |pages=51–85 |editor-last=Osborne |editor-first=John |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/9781009415422.003 |isbn=978-1-009-41542-2}}</ref> The ''[[Liber Censuum]]'' says that Paschal was from the Massimi branch of the [[Massimo family]], as was his predecessor, [[Pope Stephen IV|Stephen IV]].<ref name="g9n13">Goodson, 2010, p. 9 & n.13.</ref>

[[Pope Leo III]] placed Paschal in charge of the monastery of [[St Stephen of the Abyssinians]], where his responsibilities included the care of pilgrims visiting Rome.<ref name=Kirsch>{{catholic|title=Pope Paschal I|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11514a.htm|last=Kirsch|first=Johann Peter|volume=11|year=1911|access-date=13 September 2017|inline=1}}</ref> According to early modern accounts, Leo III may have elevated Paschal as the [[cardinal priest]] of [[Santa Prassede]].<ref name="g9">Goodson, 2010, p. 9.</ref>  Goodson attributes this account to a "desire to explain the attention that the pope so lavishly and prominently paid to that church later in his career."<ref name="g9"/>