from Creation before the Second Coming. He also says that Christ was born 5500 years after Adam, so 500 years have to pass from the birth of Christ "to the consummation of the six thousand years, and in this way the end will be". Feast days In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the feast day of St Hippolytus falls on August 13, which is also the Apodosis of the Feast of the Transfiguration. Because on the Apodosis the hymns of the Transfiguration are to be repeated, the feast of St. Hippolytus may be transferred to the day before or to some other convenient day. The Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrates the feast of "St Hippolytus Pope of Rome" on January 30, who may or may not be the same individual. The Roman Catholic Church celebrates St Hippolytus jointly with St Pontian on August 13. The feast of Saint Hippolytus formerly celebrated on 22 August as one of the companions of Saint Timotheus was a duplicate of his 13 August feast and for that reason was deleted when the General Roman Calendar was revised in 1969. Earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology referred to the 22 August Hippolytus as Bishop of Porto. The Catholic Encyclopedia sees this as "connected with the confusion regarding the Roman presbyter resulting from the Acts of the Martyrs of Porto. It has not been ascertained whether the memory of the latter was localized at Porto merely in connection with the legend in Prudentius, without further foundation, or whether a person named Hippolytus was really martyred at Porto, and afterwards confounded in legend with Hippolytus of Rome." This opinion is shared by a Benedictine source. Earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology also mentioned on 30 January a Hippolytus venerated at Antioch, but the details were borrowed from the story of Hippolytus of Rome. Modern editions of the Martyrology omit mention of this supposed Saint Hippolytus of Antioch. See also Apostolic Tradition Epistle to Diognetus Canons of Hippolytus Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades (actually by Hippolytus) Papal selection before 1059 Notes References Achelis, Hans Hippolytstudien (Leipzig, 1897) Adhémar d'Ales, La Théologie de Saint Hippolyte (Paris, 1906). (G.K.) Bunsen, Hippolytus and his Age (1852, 2nd ed., 1854; Ger. ed., 1853) Döllinger, Hippolytus und Kallistus (Regensb. 1853; Eng. transl., Edinb., 1876) Gerhard Ficker, Studien zur Hippolytfrage (Leipzig, 1893) Hippolytus, The Treatise on the Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus of