Note 677 — Chapter II · THE SAINTS’ DAYS (continued 2)
Reading edition
Pope Symmacus is called “papa urbis” by Avitus in the inscription of one of his letters. Thiel, Epistolæ Romanorum Pontificum, 730. In an inscription in the catacombs the pope describes himself as: “Ego, Damasus, urbis Romæ Episcopus.”