wing aside the upper garment of a warrior, suddenly
appeared before the eyes of the multitude in the robes of patriarch of
Alexandria. Astonishment held them mute; but no sooner had Apollinaris
begun to read the tome of St. Leo, than a volley of curses, and
invectives, and stones, assaulted the odious minister of the emperor
and the synod. A charge was instantly sounded by the successor of the
apostles; the soldiers waded to their knees in blood; and two hundred
thousand Christians are said to have fallen by the sword: an incredible
account, even if it be extended from the slaughter of a day to the
eighteen years of the reign of Apollinaris. Two succeeding patriarchs,
Eulogius [146] and John, [147] labored in the conversion of heretics,
with arms and arguments more worthy of their evangelical profession. The
theological knowledge of Eulogius was displayed in many a volume, which
magnified the errors of Eutyches and Severus, and attempted to reconcile
the ambiguous language of St. Cyril with the orthodox creed of Pope
Leo and the fathers of Chalcedon. The bounteous alms of John the
eleemosynary were dictated by superstition, or benevolence, or policy.
Seven thousand five hundred poor were maintained at his expense; on his
accession he found eight thousand pounds of gold in the treasury of the
church; he collected ten thousand from the liberality of the faithful;
yet the primate could boast in his testament, that he left behind him
no more than the third part of the smallest of the silver coins. The
churches of Alexandria were delivered to the Catholics, the religion of
the Monophysites was proscribed in Egypt, and a law was revived which
excluded the natives from the honors and emoluments of the state.

[Footnote 144: The history of the Alexandrian patriarchs, from Dioscorus
to Benjamin, is taken from Renaudot, (p. 114--164,) and the second tome
of the Annals of Eutychius.]

[Footnote 145: Liberat. Brev. c. 20, 23. Victor. Chron. p. 329 330.
Procop. Anecdot. c. 26, 27.]

[Footnote 146: Eulogius, who had been a monk of Antioch, was more
conspicuous for subtilty than eloquence. He proves that the enemies of
the faith, the Gaianites and Theodosians, ought not to be reconciled;
that the same proposition may be orthodox in the mouth of St. Cyril,
heretical in that of Severus; that the opposite assertions of St. Leo
are equally true, &c. His writings are no longer extant except in the
Extracts of Photius, who had perused the