THE POPES

Pope Soter was Pope for eight years AD 167-174.  We posess a fragment of an interesting letter addressed to him by St Dionysius of Corinth who writes: "From the beginning it has been your custom to do good to all the brethren in many ways, and to send alms to many churches in every city, refreshing the poverty of thos who sent requests, or giving aid to the brethren in the mines, by the alms which you have had the habit of giving from old, Romans keeping up the traditional custom increased, by providing the abundance which he has sent to the saints, and by further consiling with blessed words with brethren who came to hin, as a loving father his children"