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===Death===

===Death===

Under the persecutions of Christians by Emperor Maximinus Thrax, Hippolytus was banished in 235 and exiled to the unhealthful island (''insula nociva'') of Sardinia at the same time as pope Pontianus; and shortly before this, or soon afterward, he became reconciled with the legitimate bishop and the Church of Rome. He died on Sardinia the same year in 235, reportedly a martyr from the sufferings he endured. It is possible that Hippolytus died working in the mines. Both Pontianus and Hippolytus were equally revered as martyrs by the Roman Church, a certain proof that Hippolytus had made his peace with that Church with Pope Pontian, who reconciled him and brought him back into the Church before his death. For, after both exiles had died on the island of Sardinia, their mortal remains were brought back and returned to Rome on the same day, 13 August (either 236 or one of the following years), and solemnly interred, Pontianus entombed in the papal vault in the catacomb of Callistus and Hippolytus buried in a cemetery in a spot on the Via Tiburtina. With his death the schism must have come to a speedy end, which, as we have learned from the subsequent inscription by pope Damasus, accounts for its identification with the Novatian schism at the end of the fourth century.  

Under the persecutions of Christians by Emperor Maximinus Thrax, Hippolytus was banished in 235 and exiled to the unhealthful island (''insula nociva'') of Sardinia at the same time as pope Pontianus; and shortly before this, or soon afterward, he repented and became reconciled with the legitimate bishop and the Church of Rome. He died on Sardinia the same year in 235, reportedly a martyr from the sufferings he endured. It is possible that Hippolytus died working in the mines. Both Pontianus and Hippolytus were equally revered as martyrs by the Roman Church, a certain proof that Hippolytus had made his peace with that Church with Pope Pontian, who reconciled him and brought him back into the Church before his death. For, after both exiles had died on the island of Sardinia, their mortal remains were brought back and returned to Rome on the same day, 13 August (either 236 or one of the following years), and solemnly interred, Pontianus entombed in the papal vault in the catacomb of Callistus and Hippolytus buried in a cemetery in a spot on the Via Tiburtina. With his death the schism must have come to a speedy end, which, as we have learned from the subsequent inscription by pope Damasus, accounts for its identification with the Novatian schism at the end of the fourth century.  

By about 255, Hippolytus was considered a martyred priest by the Church in Rome, indicating that he had been reconciled with the Church and not considered a schismatic.

By about 255, Hippolytus was considered a martyred priest by the Church in Rome, indicating that he had been reconciled with the Church and not considered a schismatic.