cceeds for a few months, 63

_Liberatus_, "Breviarium," quoted, 208, 209

_Libius Severus_, Roman emperor, 16

_Lombards_, their descent on Italy and uncivilised savagery, 287-91;
for ever strive to possess Rome, but never succeed, 347

_Macedonius_, bishop of Constantinople, feels his unlawful
appointment, 143;
persecuted during fifteen years, and finally deposed by the emperor
Anastasius, 144-8;
refuses to give up the Council of Chalcedon, but will not surrender
the memory of Acacius, and never enjoys communion with the Pope,
144-8

_Majorian_, Roman emperor, 14

_Martyrdom_, Papal, of 300 years, 10, 54

_Mausoleum of Hadrian_, stripped of its statues, 211;
an apparition of St. Michael changes its name, 278

_Mennas_, patriarch of Constantinople, 228-239

_Nepos_, Roman emperor, 21

_Odoacer_, extinguishes the western emperor, 22;
named Patricius of the Romans by the emperor Zeno, 35;
slain by Theodorick, 38;
his exaltation foretold by St. Severinus, 22

_Olybrius_, Roman emperor, 20

_Orosius_, an important anecdote preserved by him, 43

_Pallium_, sent by the Pope to the chief bishop in each province, 337;
the duties and powers which it carried with it, 337

_Papal election_, the freedom of, assailed by Odoacer, 194, 292;
by Theodorick and Justinian, 210, 292

_Pelagius II._, Pope, 578-590, describes the state of Rome, 277

_Petra Apostolica_, in the sixty Popes preceding Gregory, 352;
in the Popes from St. Gregory to Innocent III., 353;
in the Popes from Innocent III. to Leo XIII., 355;
sustained by opposing forces, 359

_Philips_, "Kirchenrecht," his judgment of Theodorick, 41;
on Byzantine succession, 61

_Primacy, the Roman_, its denial suicidal in all who believe one holy
Catholic Church, 3-4;
the creator of Christendom, 5, 6, 10, 57-8;
tested by the division of the empire, 51;
still more by the extinction of the western emperor, 53;
witness to it by Guizot, 55;
saves, in the seven successors of St. Leo, the eastern Church from
becoming Eutychean, 179-86;
developed by the sufferings of sixty years, 188;
acknowledged by the Council of Africa after the expulsion of the
Vandals, 201;
defined by the Vatican Council, as held by St. Gregory I., 307;
saves the western bishops from absorption in their several countries,