Editing Pope Pius I (section)

==Early life==
Pius is believed to have been born at [[Aquileia]], in [[Northern Italy]], during the late 1st century.<ref name=lives>{{cite book |title=Lives of the Saints, For Every Day of the Year |editor-first=Hugo |editor-last=Hoever |location=New York |publisher=Catholic Book Publishing |date=1955 |page=263}}</ref> His father was an [[Italians|Italian]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Lives of the Popes: Antiquity, Volume 1|author=Platina |authorlink=Bartolomeo Platina |editor-first=Anthony F. |editor-last=D'Elia|date=2008|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0674028197|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wsF_w8-myUUC&pg=PA79 |page=79}}</ref> called Rufinus, and according to the ''[[Liber Pontificalis]]'' was also a native of Aquileia.<ref>Ed. Duchesne, I, 132.</ref> According to the 2nd-century [[Muratorian fragment|Muratorian Canon]]<ref>{{cite book |editor-first=Erwin |editor-last=Preuschen |title=Analecta, Volume1 |location=Tübingen |publisher=J. C. B. Mohr |date=1910 |oclc=5805331}}</ref> and the ''[[Liberian Catalogue]]'',<ref>Ed. Duchesne, "Liber Pontificalis, I, 5."</ref> Pius was the brother of [[Hermas (freedman)|Hermas]], author of the text known as ''[[The Shepherd of Hermas]]''. Its author identifies himself as a former slave, a fact which has led to speculation that both Hermas and Pius were [[Ancient Roman freedmen|freedmen]]. However Hermas' statement that he was a slave may just mean that he belonged to a low-ranking plebeian family.<ref>{{cite book|title=New Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11|author=Catholic University of America|date=1967|publisher=New York : McGraw-Hill|page=393}}</ref>