Who is St. Levantius?
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From ancient Hebrew legend, Levantius is the apocryphal guardian of sacred doorways and slayer of the loathsome demon Avaridel. Also now supported by a hitherto unidentified image on a portion of a 1st century ostracon, an inscribed pottery shard, found at Masada in 1893, and what is now believed to be a written reference to Levantius in the Dead Sea Scrolls, on one of the fragments from the Enoch found in the fourth of the caves near Qumran.
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He celebrates the Mass daily.  I suspect he would list this as his highest and most important duty.\n\nHe hears confessions and of course goes to confession as necessary.\n\nHe baptizes, confirms, ordains and performs marriages.\n\nHe is the Metropolitan Archbishop for the territory of Rome.  He is the Patriarch of the Western Church and serves as the head of the Church of the West.  He maintains communion with the other principal leaders of the Catholic Church such as the Patriarch of Antioch or the Ruthenian Metropolitan Archbishop of Pittsburgh.\n\nHe is the court of last appeal on all complaints by a Christian.\n\nHe is the final reviewer for work done by the Roman curia.\n\nHe is the person responsible for all the diplomatic work of the Catholic Church.\n\nHe meets with the leaders of the other Christian Churches such as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople of the Pope of Alexandria and works toward reconcilliation.\n\nHe meets with the leaders of the various ecclesial communities such as the Methodist Church or the Presbyterian Church.
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The empty tomb.\n\nJesus is acknowledged by all to be a genuine historical figure.  The only question is, was He who He claimed to be?  The fact that no one in the first century could produce His body or otherwise refute the worldwide claim of His resurrection is a strong witness in favor of it, and thus of His claim.
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The Order of Friars Minor (commonly called the Franciscans) is a mendicant religious order of men tracing their origin to Francis of Assisi and following the Rule of St. Francis. The official Latin name is the Ordo Fratrum Minorum (literally, "Order of Little Brothers"); Francis thus referred to his followers as "Fraticelli", meaning "Little Brothers". Franciscan brothers are informally called friars. The order has historically been known as the greyfriars. Among the most important Franciscans are its founder, Francis, as well as Anthony of Padua, Bonaventure, John Duns Scotus, Roger Bacon, Alexander of Hales, William of Ockham, and Giovanni da Pian del Carpini.
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I'm thinking the guy you're looking for is St. Simeon Stylites.  \n\nThat is, I know there's a saint depicted in traditional imagery as being in a barrel on a post, and I think this is the same guy.\nAnother possibility would be Diogenes.  \nHope it fits.
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Saint Zacharias (or Zachary), pope (741-752), from a Greek family of Calabria, appears to have been on intimate terms with Gregory III, whom he succeeded (November 741).\n\nZacharias was a wise and subtle diplomat. Finding that his predecessor's alliance with the Lombard Duke of Spoleto was not protecting Papal cities against the Lombard king, Zacharias turned to Liutprand directly. Contemporary history (Liber pontificalis) dwells chiefly on Zacharias' great personal influence with Liutprand, and with his successor Ratchis; it was largely through his tact in dealing with these princes in a variety of emergencies that the exarchate of Ravenna was rescued from becoming a Lombard duchy.\n\nA correspondence, of considerable extent, and great interest, between Zacharias and Saint Boniface, the apostle of Germany, survives, and shows how great was the influence of this pope on events then passing in France and Germany; he encouraged the deposition of the last Merovingian king of the Franks, Childeric III, and it was with his sanction that Boniface crowned Pepin the Short as king of the Franks at Soissons in 752. Zacharias is stated to have remonstrated with the Byzantine emperor Constantine V Copronymus on the part he had taken in the iconoclastic controversy. He died March 14, 752, and buried in St. Peter's Basilica. His successor was Stephen who died soon after, before consecration and is not considered a valid pope. He was then succeded by another Stephen who became Stephen II.\n\nIn the effort to Christianize Rome, Zacharias built the original church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva over an ancient temple to Minerva near Pantheon. He also restored the Lateran Palace, moving the relic of the head of Saint George to the church of San Giorgio al Velabro.
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The Pope who didn't do anything to denounce the Nazi regime and the holocaust.  Don't remember his name.
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scimitar or knife\n\n"The Gospels contain no report of acts by Bartholomew, but later tradition says Bartholomew is visited "India" (a term which was used rather loosely to cover regions east of Suez) during the reign of Commodusas Roman Emperor (180-192). Other tradition has it that Bartholomew was martyred by being flayed alive. Thus the scimitar or knife is his symbol, depicted in stone, wood, paint, etc. in many places in the present church. Bartholomew is claimed as the patron Saint of Armenia, the traditional site of his martyrdom; and of cheese merchants, tanners and plasterers."
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According to Catholic Online, there is a St. Montanus.
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You are probably thinking of the character known as the "Wandering Jew".  He taunted Jesus on the way to the crucifixion and was cursed to walk the Earth until the second coming.  His exact name is lost, but has been cited as Ahasuerus, Matathias, Buttadeus, Cartophilus, Isaac Laquedem, and Juan Espera a Dios.\n\nThe Roman Soldier most associated with the crucifixion is Longinus, who pierced Jesus with his spear.  For some inexplicable reason the Catholics sainted him and have statues of him in the Vatican.  (link 2)
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He was an Iranian God of light.\nSee the following link.\nhttp://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/mithra.html
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here is a good website explaining it.\nI am not Catholic.
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A Christian who started alot of orphanges.
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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicized as Tertullian, (ca. 155–230) was a church leader and prolific author during the early years of Christianity. He was born, lived, and died in Carthage, in what is today Tunisia.\n\nTertullian denounced Christian doctrines he considered heretical, but later in life adopted views that came to be regarded as heretical themselves. He was the first great writer of Latin Christianity, thus sometimes known as the "father of the Latin Church.\n\nTertullian was the first to break the force of such charges as that the Christians sacrificed infants at the celebration of the Lord's Supper and committed incest; he pointed to the commission of such crimes in the pagan world, and then proved by the testimony of Pliny that Christians pledged themselves not to commit murder, adultery, or other crimes; he adduced also the inhumanity of pagan customs, such as feeding the flesh of gladiators to beasts. The gods have no existence, and thus there is no pagan religion against which Christians may offend. Christians do not engage in the foolish worship of the emperors; they do better, they pray for them. Christians can afford to be put to torture and to death, and the more they are cast down the more they grow; "In the blood of the martyrs lies the seed of the Church" (Apologeticum, 1). \n\nIn the De Praescriptione he develops as its fundamental idea that, in a dispute between the Church and a separating party, the whole burden of proof lies with the latter, as the Church, in possession of the unbroken tradition, is by its very existence a guarantee of its truth. \n\nIn his Apologeticus, he was the first Latin author to qualify Christianism as the 'vera religio', and symmetrically relegating the classical Empire religion and other accepted cults as mere 'superstitiones'. Tertullian left the Church of Rome late in his life and joined the heterodox Montanists, thus explaining his failure to attain sainthood.
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http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=205\nhttp://ivory.lm.com/~strita/strita.html\nhttp://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintr01.htm\n\nHOpe these help.
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I can't really rate him, as I have not followed his work closely, just what I've seen on the news or in the paper.\n\nI've heard that he is a conservative personally, and if he had his way he would put the Church back a couple of hundred years lol, but I've also heard that he is known for putting himself last and doing the will of God and the Church, even if he disagreed with them.\n\nI read his first paper (sorry, don't know the latin name it's called) and was very glad to see that his main theme was Love.  Mainly calling Christians to love God, love each other, and keep that as a focus in our lives.  That was good.
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lived c. 270 - 345/352\n\nNicholas was born in Asia Minor during the 3rd century at Patara in the province of Lycia\n\nHis feast day is December 6, presumably the date of his death.