f Constantinople, 148;
fills the eastern patriarchal sees with heretics, 149;
being pressed by Vitalian, betakes himself to Pope Hormisdas, 150;
receives his conditions, except those concerning Acacius, 159;
his treachery and cruelty, 160;
his sudden death, 162

_Anatolius_, bishop of Constantinople, crowns the emperor Leo I.,
dies in 458, 64;
his ambition seen and checked by St. Leo, 60;
is to Leo what John the Faster is to Gregory, 307

_Anicius Olybrius_, Roman emperor, 20

_Anthemius_, Roman emperor, 18

_Arianism_, propagated among the Goths by the emperor Valens, 49;
communicated by them to the Teuton tribes, 29;
prevalent throughout the West, 50;
fails in the Vandal, Visigothic, Burgundian, and Ostrogothic
kingdoms, 327-9

_Aspar_, Arian Goth, makes Leo I. emperor, and is slain by him, 62

_Ataulph_, marries Galla Placidia, his judgment upon the Goths and
Romans, 43

_Avitus, St._, bishop of Vienne, in Gaul, his character of
Acacius, 93;
his letter to Clovis on his conversion, 124;
urges his duty to propagate the faith in the peoples around him,
126;
writes to the Roman senate that the cause of the Bishop of Rome is
not one bishop but that of the Episcopate itself, 140

_Avitus_, Roman emperor, 13

_Augustine, St._, the great victory of the Church which he did
not foresee, 57

_Baronius_, quoted, 76, 79, 202, 207

_Basiliscus_, usurper, first of the theologising emperors, 46

_Belisarius_, reconquers Northern Africa, 199;
begins the Gothic war, and enters Rome, 205;
deposes Pope Silverius, 207;
defends Rome against Vitiges, 210;
captures Rome the third time, 207

_Benedict, St._, his monastery at Monte Cassino destroyed by the
Lombards, 290;
his Order has its chief seat for 140 years at St. John Lateran, 290;
rebukes and subdues Totila, 215

_Byzantium_, the over-lordship of its emperor acknowledged,
18, 23;
the succession to its throne, 61;
its constitution under Justinian contrasted with the medieval
constitution of England, 250

_Cassiodorus_, his letter as Praetorian prefect to Pope John II., 195

_Church, Catholic_, its two great victories, 5, 25;
attested and described by Gibbon, 325

_Civilta Cattolica_, quoted, 103, 104, 128

_Constantinople_, its seven bishops who follow Anatolius, 180;