Offensive as it was to many in the East, nonetheless Justinian felt himself entirely free to take a Despotic stance toward the popes such as Silverius and Vigilius.

However, when Silverius returned to Italy, instead of holding a trial Belisarius handed him over to Vigilius, who according to The Liber Pontificalis banished Silverius to the desolate island Palmarola ( part of the Pontine Islands ), where he starved to death a few months later.

That work agrees with Liberatus that the restoration of Anthimus to the Patriarchate was the cause of Silverius ' deposition, but Vigilius was initially sent to persuade Silverius to agree to this, not replace him.

Silverius was summoned to the Pincian palace, where he was stripped of his vestments and handed over to Vigilius, who dispatched him into exile.

* March 29 – Pope Vigilius succeeds Silverius as the 59th pope, when the latter is deposed by Belisarius at the order of Justinian I.

While Vigilius was in Constantinople, Pope Agapetus died on 22 April 536, and Pope Silverius had been made pope through the influence of the King of the Goths.

What part Vigilius played in the deposition of Silverius is unclear in the primary sources.

The authors of the Liber Pontificalis, who are hostile to Vigilius, state he delivered to Belisarius the imperial orders to depose Silverius, yet are circumspect about how Silverius was elected and ordained.

Procopius, on the other hand, states that Belisarius appointed Vigilius shortly after Silverius was deposed.

Soon after Silverius was ordained, the Byzantine general Belisarius occupied Rome, which was then besieged by the Goths.

On 9 December 536, the Byzantine general Belisarius entered Rome with the approval of Pope Silverius.

" In outline, all accounts agree: Silverius was deposed by Belisarius in March 537 and sent into exile.

** Pope Silverius

Duchesne and others believe that the author of the first addition to the Liber Pontificalis was a contemporary of Pope Silverius ( 536 – 537 ), and that the author of another ( not necessarily the second ) addition was a contemporary of Pope Conon ( 686 – 687 ), with later popes being added individually and during their reigns or shortly after their deaths.

Pope Saint Silverius was Pope from 8 June 536 until March 537.

Pope Silverius was later was recognized as a saint by popular acclaimation, and is now the patron saint of the island of Ponza, Italy.

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Pope Hormisdas ( 514 – 23 ) was the father of Pope Silverius ( 536 – 37 ).

( Silverius was the legitimate son of Pope Hormisdas ).

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Pope Silverius was exiled to and died on Palmarola in 537.

The Liber Pontificalis alleges that Silverius had purchased his elevation from King Theodahad.

He writes that Silverius was accused of offering to betray Rome to the Goths.

Around the same time, Silverius was accused of offering to betray Rome to the Goths.

Silverius was probably consecrated 8 June 536.

Several different versions of the course of events following the elevation of Silverius exist.

Silverius was sent into exile at Patara in Lycia, whose bishop petitioned the emperor for a fair trial for Silverius.

According to Ponza Islands legend, fishermen were in a small boat in a storm off Palmarola and they called on Saint Silverius for help.

An apparition of Saint Silverius called them to Palmarola, where they survived.

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He is succeeded by Silverius as the 58th pope.

Before becoming a Roman deacon, Hormisdas was married, and his son became pope under the name of Silverius.

Vigilius refused to acknowledge the imperial edict and was called to Constantinople by Justinian, in order to settle the matter there with a synod.

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The terms of the work-to-rule were that staff refused to work with the new equipment ( though the old black and white equipment had been disposed of by then ) and therefore programmes were recorded and transmitted in black and white, including Coronation Street The dispute was resolved in early 1971 and the last black and white episode was broadcast on 8 February 1971.

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Elizabeth Garrett then applied to several medical schools, including Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons, all of which refused her admittance.

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He was one of three men who refused to sign the United States Constitution because it did not then include a Bill of Rights.

France then became a weak republic which refused to negotiate and was finished by Prussia in a few months.

Husain ibn Ali, by then Muhammad's only living grandson, refused to swear allegiance to Yazid.

But I, though I saw and heard these things, refused to write for a long time through doubt and bad opinion and the diversity of human words, not with stubbornness but in the exercise of humility, until, laid low by the scourge of God, I fell upon a bed of sickness ; then, compelled at last by many illnesses, and by the witness of a certain noble maiden of good conduct nun Richardis von Stade and of that man whom I had secretly sought and found, as mentioned above, I set my hand to the writing.

" Reno, then a candidate for Governor of Florida, refused to discuss her role in the case, leading one editorial to claim that she was " stonewalling.

In early 1995, Askar Akayev, the then President of Kyrgyzstan, attempted to sell Russian companies controlling shares in the republic's twenty-nine largest industrial plants, an offer that Russia refused.

Philip then attempted to intervene in the negotiations for Sibylla's second husband, and suggested one of his own retinue, but the native barons refused his suggestion.

Conrad, who was now the nearest kinsman to Baldwin V in the male line, and had already proved himself a capable military leader, then married Isabella, but Guy refused to concede the crown.

Charles of Anjou also died in 1285, and the military orders and the commune of Acre accepted Henry II as king ; Odo Poilechen refused to recognize him, but was allowed to hand Acre over to the Templars rather than Henry directly, and the Templars then handed it to the king.

Rock had problems with the release of " Picture ", a country-influenced duet with Sheryl Crow: his label felt it was wrong for his image, and was not keen to spend more money promoting a flagging album ; then, when they agreed to release it, Sheryl Crow's label initially refused to give permission.

Moses turned down the opportunity to have the Israelites completely destroyed and a great nation made from his own offspring, and instead he told the people that they would wander the wilderness for forty years until all those twenty years or older who had refused to enter Canaan had died, and that their children would then enter and possess Canaan.

Minos then asked Athens to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, the offspring from the zoophilic encounter of Minos ' wife Pasiphae with a certain bull that the king refused to sacrifice to Poseidon, which he had placed within a labyrinth he commanded his architect Daedalus to build.

He had them build huge walls around the city and promised to reward them well, a promise he then refused to fulfill.

She has refused to do so, and since then Scappaticci has not launched any libel actions against the media making the allegations.