Editing Pope Stephen I (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Legendari di sancti istoriado uulgar, 1497 – (santo Stefano papa e martire) - BEIC IE4411199.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|The Martyrdom of Pope Stephen in the ''[[Golden Legend]]'' (1497)]]
The ''[[Depositio episcoporum]]'' of 354 does not speak of Pope Stephen I as a martyr and he is not celebrated as such by the [[Catholic Church]],<ref>"Calendarium Romanum" (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1969), p. 133</ref> in spite of the account in the ''[[Golden Legend]]'' that in 257 [[Emperor Valerian]] resumed the persecution of Christians.  Stephen was sitting on his pontifical throne celebrating [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] for his [[Wiktionary:congregation|congregation]] when the emperor's men came and beheaded him on 2 August 257.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VpvI5TAp08IC&dq=%22Pope+Stephen%22&pg=PA39 The golden legend: readings on the saints] By Jacobus de Voragine, William Granger Ryan</ref>  As late as the 18th century, what was said to be the chair was preserved, still allegedly stained with blood.<ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/210/8/021.html Butler, Alban. "St. Stephen, Pope and Martyr", ''Butler's Lives of the Saints'' Vol. VIII: August, 1866]</ref>

Stephen I's [[feast day]] in the Catholic Church is celebrated on 2 August.<ref>"Martyrologium Romanum" (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2001 {{ISBN|88-209-7210-7}})</ref> In 1839, when the new feast of [[Alphonsus Liguori|St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori]] was assigned to 2 August, Stephen I was mentioned only as a [[commemoration (liturgy)|commemoration]] within the [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] of Saint Alphonsus. The revision of the calendar in 1969 removed the mention of Stephen I from the General Roman Calendar, but, according to the terms of the [[General Instruction of the Roman Missal]], the 2 August Mass may now everywhere be that of one of the Saints named that day in the ''Martyrologium Romanum'' of 2004, including Stephen I, unless in some locality an obligatory celebration is assigned to that day,<ref>[http://www.acbc.catholic.org.au/documents/200707031933.pdf "General Instruction of the Roman Missal"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720091216/http://www.acbc.catholic.org.au/documents/200707031933.pdf |date=2008-07-20 }} 355 c</ref> while those permitted to use the pre-1969 calendar make commemoration of Saint Stephen I on that day.

Pope Stephen I is the patron of [[Hvar (town)|Hvar]] and of [[Modigliana Cathedral]].