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Italian chroniclers who follow him....
99
The story appealed to by Hadrian I., Nicolas I., and Leo IX.....
Johannes Malalas the first Greek who accepts it.
The true account seemed incredible to the Greeks also....
Eneas Sylvius and Nicolas of Cusa knew the truth....
The truth spreads slowly.....
Its final triumph due to French theologians..
The story a favourite subject for poems...
V. THE DONATION OF CONSTANTINE.
Account of the Donation in the Liber Pontificalis sus-
picious....
Evidence of Hadrian I...........
No traces of the Donation till about 750...
...
100
102
103
104
105
107
Theory that it was a Greek fabrication disproved by the
language of the document...
The Greek text an evident translation
Why the Greeks so readily believed in the Donation
....
Accepted in the West even before known to the Greeks... 114
The work of a Roman ecclesiastic,
Probable date of the forgery....
Scheme of Gregory II. to make Rome independent.
The Donation gave an historic basis to this scheme..
Not fabricated by the pseudo-Isidore..
The senate, patriciate, and consulate in the 8th century.
Urban 11. claims Corsica on the strength of it.
135
Hadrian IV. gives Ireland to Henry I. on the strength
of it......
Claims of the popes to the imperial insignia and homage.. 145
Dissatisfaction in Germany at such claims...
147
Historians, more cautious than the clergy, limit without
denying the Donation....
148
From the 12th to 14th century its authority increases.
Innocent IV.'s statement of papal supremacy..
151
153
1. That it and similar endowments were admirable..... 166
2. That the wealth of the Church was a source of infinite
The fiction exposed by Eneas Sylvius...
177
Also by Bishop Pecock, Cardinal Cusa, and Lorenzo Valla
Object of it to whitewash the party of Felix..
192
Not older than the 6th century..
Version of the Liber Pontificalis and of the Acts of Felix.. 192
Version of the Acts of Eusebius...
196
Name of Felix inserted into martyrologies, calendars, &c..
He is confounded with the African martyr Felix.........
The fable originated in the Liber Pontifi alis..
Difficulties when the truth became known in the 16th
century....
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202
205
Dante selects him as an instance of an heretical pope..
Was he a heretic ",
210
212
Dante's error the common belief of the time..
This erroneous belief created mainly by Gratian..
216
219
Pope Agatho's vain attempt to avert the anathema..
Leo II. confirms the anathema..
The Liber Diurnus requires every pope to confirm the
anathema.......
236
Marked silence of the Liber Pontificalis.....
237
The anathema treated in the East as a matter of course...
Hincmar of Rheims assents to it....
240
Silence of the Liber Pontificalis followed by historians.... 241
The anathema on a pope is thus forgotten..
Leo IX. shows utter ignorance of it..
241
243
A Greek first reminds the West of the fact..
246
Torquemada sacrifices the council to save Honorius...... 247
The question not seriously debated till the 16th century.. 248
VARIOUS HYPOTHESES.
1. That the Acts of the Council have been interpolated.... 248
2. That they are really the Acts of another synod...
3. That the letters of Honorius are forgeries.....
249
4. That Honorius was condemned for negligence only.
5. That the letters of Sergius are forgeries...
6. That the letters of Leo II. are also forgeries.
7. That Honorius was condemned by the Greeks only.... 254
8. That Honorius wrote, not as pope, but as a private
teacher....
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253
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255
The Monothelitism of Honorius would never have been
questioned, had he not been pope.....
IX. POPE GREGORY II. AND THE EMPEROR LEO III.
Martinus Polonus once more the propagator of error.
Gregory II. represented as heading a revolt against Leo
III......
257-
257
Theophanes the source of the statement...
258
Gregory headed no revolt, but helped to quash one.
260
View of Gregorovius inconsistent with facts and itself.... 262
Difficult position of Gregory II................
X. SYLVESTER II.
Gradual defamation of his memory.
267
1. That he was too fond of profane arts and sciences......
2. That his election at Ravenna was due to sinister arts.. 268
3. That he was addicted to magic and black art....
268
THE PROPHETIC SPIRIT AND THE PROPHECIES OF
THE CHRISTIAN ERA.
The Church to be saved by fleeing from Rome...
323