SOTER, Pope, saint. He succeeded Anicetus and his pontificate is to be placed between c. 166 and 175.
According to Eusebius (Hist. eccl., V, 19) he was elected in 168–69 and ruled for 8 years; according to the Liberian Catalogue, however, he was pope from 162 to 170. He is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on 22 April as a martyr, but there is no evidence of this quality, which is unknown to the ancient Roman liturgical tradition; he was first inserted into the martyrology by Ado.
CONTEMPLATION
OF THE CRUCIFIX,
AND CONSIDERATIONS
OF CHRIST CRUCIFIED,
and of the sorrows which the most holy Virgin suffered at the foot of the cross.
Composed by Fr. ANDREW OF SOTO,
of the order of the glorious Father St Francis,
confessor to Her Most Serene Highness the Infanta Doña Isabel
Clara Eugenia, Lady of the States of Flanders.
Directed to Her Most Serene Highness.
At St. Mary of the Harbour,
IN ANTWERP,
AT THE PLANTIN PRINTING-HOUSE,
By John Moretus.
M.DC.I.
(photo: Enc. Catt.)
SOTO, ANDREAS de - Title page of Contemplación del Crucifixo, Antwerp 1601 - Rome, copy in the National Library.
OF BROTHER DOMINIC SOTO