h, 113

The emperor Anastasius deposes Euphemius by the Resident
Council, 114

Pope Gelasius, in a council of seventy bishops at Rome,
sets forth the divine institution of the Primacy, 115

And the order of the three Patriarchal Sees, 115

And three General Councils--the Nicene, Ephesine, and
Chalcedonic, 115

Denies to the see of Constantinople any rank beyond that
of an ordinary bishop, and omits the Council of 381, 116

Death of Pope Gelasius and character of his pontificate, 118

His own description of the time in which he lived, 118

CHAPTER III. (XLV.).

PETER STOOD UP.

Pope Anastasius: his letter to the emperor Anastasius, 120

He makes the Pope's position in the Church parallel with
that of the emperor in the world, 121

He writes to Clovis on his conversion, 122

St. Gregory of Tours notes the prosperity of Catholic kingdoms
and the decline of Arian in the West, 123

Letter of St. Avitus, bishop of Vienne, to Clovis on his
baptism, 124

He recognises the vast importance of the professing the
Catholic faith by Clovis, 125

And the duty of Clovis to propagate the faith in peoples around, 126

How the words of St. Avitus to Clovis were fulfilled in history, 127

The election of Pope Symmachus traversed by the emperor's agent, 128

His letter termed "Apologetica" to the eastern emperor, 129

The imperial and papal power compared, 131

The papal and the sovereign power the double permanent
head of human society, 133

Emperors wont to acknowledge Popes on their accession, 134

Inferences to be deduced from this letter, 135

The answer of the emperor Anastasius is to stir up a fresh
schism at Rome, 136

The Synodus Palmaris, without judging the Pope, declares
him free from all charge, 137

Letter of the bishop of Vienne to the Roman