He set up a bank

It went belly up and he fled the country.

He finagled his way out of prison and got a high-profile job. How? Some said it was bribery.

What was certain was that he knew where all the bodies were buried.

He ran a cemetery.

He had been born a slave. He died a Pope.

Many terrible things were said about Callistus, mostly by his enemies whom Callistus fought for their pushing unorthodox ideas about Christ and his divinity.

No matter what was said about Callistus and what obstacles he had to overcome in life, the people he shepherded, the church of 3rd century Rome, remembered him kindly, remembered that he fought and died for the faith, and celebrated him as a saint and a martyr.