who is there enthroned
more than ever the symbol, the seat, and the champion of the Kingdom of the
Cross.

NOTES:

[173] See Gregorovius, ii. 3, 4.

[174] Gregorovius, ii. 6.

[175] _Ibid._, ii. 5, literal.

[176] Nirschl, iii. 534.

[177] Third letter of Pelagius II.; Mansi ix., p. 889: Nefandissima gens.

[178] Attested by St. Gregory of Tours, who heard it from a deacon of his
church then at Rome.

[179] _Ep._ i. 25, p. 514.

[180] _Homily_ xviii. _on Ezechiel_, tom. i. 1374.

[181] Nahum ii, 11.

[182] Micheas i. 16.

[183] End of the _Homilies on Ezechiel_, tom. i. 1430.

[184] Quoted by Reumont, ii. 90.

[185] _Ep._ v. 42, p. 769.

[186] Reumont and Gregorovius.

[187] _Ep._ v. 21, p. 751.

[188] _Ep._ v. 20, tom. ii. 747.

[189] _Ep._ vii. 40, p. 887.

[190] I have drawn attention to this fact, and the idea which it represents
as attested by Popes earlier than St. Gregory, in vol. v., pp. 53-60, of
the _Formation of Christendom_, "The Throne," &c.

[191] Rump, ix. 501-2; see his words quoted above, p. 107.

[192] _Ep._ vii. 34, p. 882.

[193] Rump, ix. 502.

[194] Providentissime piissimus Dominus ad compescendos bellicos motus
pacem quaerit ecclesiae _atque ad hujus compagem sacerdotum dignatur corda
reducere_.-_Ep._ v. 20, p. 747.

[195] De vi et ratione Primatus Romani Pontificis--c. iii., quoting the
letter of St. Gregory to Eulogius, viii. 30.

[196] _Ep._ ix. 59, p. 976.

[197] _Ep._ ii. 52, p. 618.

[198] _Ep._ xi. 37, p. 1120.

[199] _Ep._ vi. 60, p. 836.

[200] _Ep._ iv. 38, p. 718.

[201] _Ep._ v. 54, p. 784.

[202] _Ep._ vi. 59, p. 835.

[203] _Dialog._, iii. 31, p. 345, A.D. 594.

[204] _Ep._ i. 43, p. 531.

[205] _Ep._ ix. 121, pp. 1026-8, shortened.

[206] _Dialog._, iii. 31, p. 348.

[207] _Ep._ ix. 122, p. 1028.

[208] Paralipom. i. 11, 18.

[209] _Ep._ ix. 61, p. 977.

[210] Gibbon, ch. xxxviii.: a sneer or two have been omitted.

[211] Gibbon, ch. xxxix.

[212] Ch. xxxviii.

[213] See above, p. 141.

[214] See Kurth, ii. 25-6.

[215] See in the _Kirchen-lexicon_ of Card. Hergenroether the article on
Gregory I., vol. v., p. 1079.

[216] See Hefele, _Conciliengeschichte_, iii., p. 56; St. Gregory, ii., p.
1294; Mansi, x., p. 486.

[217] S. Siricius, _Ep._

[218] P. 308.

[219] Philippians iv. 3.

[220] See St. Clement's epistle, sec. 59. "Receive our counsel and you
shall not repent of it. For, as God liveth, and as the Lord J