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Pope Sylvester I (died 31 December 335), whose name is also spelled Silvester, was pope from 31 January, 314 to his death in 335. He succeeded Pope Miltiades. He filled the See of Rome at an important era in the history of the Catholic Church, yet very little is known of him. The accounts of his papacy preserved in the Liber Pontificalis (seventh or eighth century) contain little more than a record of the gifts said to have been conferred on the Church by Constantine I, although it does say that he was the son of a Roman named Rufinus.

Pope Saint Sylvester is mostly celebrated in Czech and Slovakia on New Years Eve .In Both countries rather that calling the day New Year's Eve ,They call it "Silvester " as Pope Saint Sylvester's birth name .

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