Acacius, bishop of Constantinople, 471-489, 65;
his conduct to the year 482, 66;
induces Zeno to publish a formulary of doctrine, 70; deposed by Pope Felix, 75;
rejects the Pope's sentence, 83;
attempts superiority over the eastern patriarchates, 84-86; position taken up by him against the Pope, 84-91;
dies after five years of excommunication in 489, defying the Pope, 83;
his name erased from the diptychs, 168;
summary of his conduct and aims, 174-6
Agapetus, Pope, his accession, 202;
confirms all his old rights to the Primate of Carthage, 203; confirms Justinian's profession of faith, at the emperor's request, 204;
goes to Constantinople, deposes Anthimus and consecrates Mennas patriarch, 205
Agnostics, generated by schismatics, 5
Alexandria and Antioch, fearful state of their
patriarchates, 184;
the vast difference between their patriarchs and the Primacy, 185
Anastasius II., Pope, 496-8, 120;
his letter to the emperor asserts that as the imperial secular dignity is pre-eminent in the whole world, so the Principate of St. Peter's See in the whole Church, 120;
both are divine delegations, 121;
writes to Clovis upon his conversion, 122;
anticipates the great results to follow from it, 123
Anastasius, eastern emperor in 491, made emperor when a Silentiarius in the court, 518, 83;
summary of his reign in the "libellus synodicus," 100-1; four Popes -- Gelasius, Anastasius, Symmachus, and Hormisdas -- have to deal with him, 102;
tries to prevent the election of Pope Symmachus, 129; he is obliged to allow the Roman See not to be judged, 143; he deposes Euphemius, and puts Macedonius in his stead at Constantinople, 143;
exalts Timotheus to the see of 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; submission of its bishop, clergy, emperor, and nobles to Pope Hormisdas, 187;
service of its cathedral under Justinian, 244;
growth of its bishop from St. Leo to St. Gregory, 342; all the work of the imperial power, 344;
perpetual encroachment of its bishops, 348, 359
Cyprian, St., quoted, "De Unitate Ecclesiae," 3
Dante, quoted, 184; on Justinian, 197
Diptychs, their meaning and force, 83
Ennodius, St., bishop of Pavia, asserts that God has reserved to Himself all judgment upon the successors of St. Peter, 142; his character of Acacius, 93
Euphemius, in 490 succeeds Fravita at Constantinople, 96; opposes the emperor Anastasius, but signs his Henotikon, 97; begs for reconciliation with Pope Felix, but will not give up Acacius, 97;
recognises the authority of Pope Gelasius, 103-5;
deposed by the emperor through the Resident Council in 496, 114
Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople, 239;
presides over the Fifth Council, 240;
consecrates Santa Sophia in 563, 244;
is deposed by Justinian in 565, 245
Felix III., Pope, 483-492, 71;
his letter to the emperor Zeno, stating his succession from St. Peter, 72;
his letter to Acacius, 73;
holds a council in 484 and deposes Acacius, 75;
his sentence, recounting the misdeeds of Acacius, 76-8; the synodal sentence signed by the Pope alone, which is justified by the Roman synod, 79;
denounces Acacius to the emperor Zeno, 80;
his utter helplessness as to secular support when he thus writes, 82, 88;
writes afresh to the emperor Zeno that the Apostle Peter speaks in him as his Vicar, 94;
delays to grant communion to Fravita, successor of Acacius, 94; dies after nine years of pontificate, 97.
Filicaja, quoted, 91
Franks, made great by the Catholic faith, 44, 348; so found a kingdom, while Ostrogoths and Visigoths lose it, 348
Fravita, succeeds Acacius at Constantinople, and begs for the Pope's recognition, 93;
dies after three months, 96
Gelasius, Pope, 492, 98;
condition of the Empire and Church at his accession, 98-9; writes to Euphemius, who will cede everything except the person of Acacius, 103-5;
the bishops of Eastern Illyricum profess their obedience to the Apostolic See, 105-6;
to whom the Pope declares that the see of Constantinople has no precedence over other bishops, 107;
that the Holy See, in virtue of its Principate, confirms every council, 109;
his great letter to the emperor Anastasius defines the domain of the Two Powers, 110;
the Primacy instituted by Christ, acknowledged by the Church, 111; in the Roman synod of 496, declares the divine Primacy of the Roman See, the second rank of Alexandria, and the third of Antioch, as sees of Peter, 113;
the three Councils of Nicaea, Ephesus in 431, and Chalcedon, to be general, 116;
omits the Council of Constantinople in 381, 116;
death of Gelasius, and character of the time of his sitting, 118; calls Odoacer "barbarian and heretic," 68
Gennadius bishop of Constantinople, 458-71, 64
Gibbon, acknowledges the two great victories of the Church, 325; and the work of the Church in the Spanish monarchy, 322; and the influence of bishops in establishing the French monarchy, 329
Glycerius, Roman emperor, 21
Gregorovius, "Geschichte der Stadt Rom.," quoted, 9, 11, 13, 14, 23, 42, 208, 222, 245, 247, 272-3, 275
Gregory, St., the Great, his ancestry, 276;
state of Rome described by his predecessor Pope Pelagius, 277; elected Pope, 590 -- tries for six months to escape, 278; describes the work he was undertaking, 279;
and the misery of Rome in the words of Ezechiel, 281; the Rome of St. Leo and the Rome of St. Gregory, 284; his works done out of this Rome, 285-7;
the Lombard descent on Italy, 288;
alludes to a strange occurrence in St. Agatha dei Goti, 21; refers to his great-grandfather, Pope Felix III., 81; describes St. Benedict rebuking Totila, 215;
his right of reporting injustice to the emperor, 260; his Primacy untouched by Rome's calamities, 292;
describes his Primacy to the empress Constantina, 295; identifies to her his authority with that of St. Peter, 296; also to the emperor Mauritius, 299;
and to the Lombard queen Theodelinda, 312;
and to the king of the Franks, 312;
and to Rechared, Gothic king of Spain, 319;
and in the appointment of the English hierarchy, 315; his inference from the original patriarchal sees being all sees of Peter, 301;
exposes the contrast between the assumed title of the patriarch of Constantinople and his own Principate, 302-7;
his title, "Servant of the servants of God," expresses his administration, 308;
as fourth Doctor of the western Church, 334;
as chief artificer in the Church's second victory, 335; England indebted to him, both for hierarchy and civil constitution, 336;
his action as bishop, metropolitan, patriarch, and Pope, 337; councils held by him at Rome, 338;
defends the liberties of monasteries against bishops, 339; and as metropolitan succours distressed bishoprics, 340; called the father of the monks, 341;
compared with St. Leo in the exercise of the Primacy, 342; continues the struggle of the Popes from St. Sylvester to maintain the Nicene constitution, 350
Gregory of Tours, St., notes the prospering of the Catholic, and the decline of the Arian kingdoms, 123;
attests St. Gregory's flight from the papacy, 279
Guizot, his witness to the action of the hierarchy, 54
Hefele, "Conciliengeschichte," quoted, 93, 100, 114, 116, 128, 136, 137, 139, 142, 202, 232
Hergenroether, Card., quoted, "Kirchengeschichte," 26, 114, 185, 232, 244;
"Photius, sein Leben," 46, 47, 68, 75, 78, 83, 92, 93, 104, 128, 129, 143, 159, 165, 170, 187, 196, 203, 205, 207, 228, 230, 232, 245, 270, 271
Hilarus, Pope, 16
Hormisdas, deacon, elected Pope in 514, 149;
sends a legation to the emperor Anastasius, who had applied to his fatherly affection, 150;
instruction given to his legates, 151-8;
orders them not to be introduced by the bishop of Constantinople, 157;
conditions of reunion proposed by him to the emperor, 158; is deceived by the emperor, and denounces the treachery of Greek diplomacy, 160;
is appealed to by the Syrian Archimandrites, 161;
resolves how to terminate the Acacian schism, 164;
his formulary of union accepted by the East, 167;
dies in 523, 193
Hurter's "Geschichte Papst Innocenz des Dritten," the papal idea carried out through generations, 353-5
Ignatius, St., of Antioch, quoted, 12
Jerome, St., the result which he did not foresee, 57
John, patriarch of Constantinople, accepts the formulary of Pope Hormisdas, 166
John I., Pope, martyred by Theodorick, 193
John II., Pope, praises Justinian for acknowledging the Primacy, and confirms his confession of faith, 191
John Talaia, elected patriarch of Alexandria, 68; offends Acacius, 69;
flies for refuge to Pope Simplicius, 71;
is supported by Pope Felix, 75;
made bishop of Nola by Pope Felix, 92
John The Faster, patriarch of Constantinople, assumes a scandalous title, 299;
holds to Gregory the position of Anatolius to Leo, 307
Justin I., made emperor, 162;
writes to Pope Hormisdas, 163;
announces to him the condemnation of Acacius, 169;
his reign of nine years, 198
Justinian, his origin, 162;
entreats Pope Hormisdas to restore unity, 164;
acknowledges to Pope John II. his Primacy, 189;
enacts the Pandects, 192;
acknowledged the Pope's Primacy all his life, 195;
his character as legislator, 197;
recovers North Africa, 199;
begins the Gothic war, 206;
domineers over the eastern Church, 227-32;
acknowledges the dignity of Pope Vigilius, 232;
persecutes him, 232-40;
issues dogmatic decrees, 236, 242;
issues Pragmatic Sanction for Italy, 243;
deposes his patriarch Eutychius, 244;
is conception of Church and State, 248-56;
makes bishops and governors exercise mutual supervision, 257; completeness and cordiality of his alliance with the Church, 261; his spirit the opposite to that of modern governments, 262; how far he maintains, how far goes beyond, the imperial idea, 264-9; result spiritual and temporal of his reign, 270
Kurth, quoted "Les Origines de la Civilisation modern," 41; on the policy of Justinian, 255;
the Church's power over the new nations, 333
Leander, St., archbishop of Seville, becomes an intimate friend of St. Gregory during his nunciature at Constantinople, 277; receives the pallium from St Gregory, 317, 321
Leo I., St., his universal Pastorship acknowledged by the Church in General Council, 1-3;
and the succession of the Popes during 400 years, from St. Peter, 3; rescues Rome from Attila, and from Genseric, 7-8;
his character, acts, and times, 15;
stands between the two great victories of the Church, and represents both, 25-6;
the result which St. Leo did not foresee, 57;
his prescience of usurpation from the Byzantine bishop, 60; his prescience of what the bishops of Constantinople aimed at, 307; draws out the office and functions of the nuncio, 338
Leo I., emperor, 467, 62;
dies in 474, 63
Leo II., an infant, succeeds 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, 330;
preserver of civil liberties, 333;
resister of Byzantine despotism, 333;
its development from St. Leo I. to St. Gregory I., 342; confirmed and illustrated by civil disasters, 346;
as Rome, the secular city, diminishes, the Primacy advances, 357
Rechared, king of the Spanish Visigoths, converted, 318; his letter to St. Gregory informing him of his conversion, 321
Reumont, "Geschichte der Stadt Rom.," quoted, over-lordship of Byzantium, 19;
Odoacer, Patricius at Rome, 35;
picture of Theodorick, 36;
of his government, 38;
sparing of St. Peter's and St. Paul's, 213;
Totila's deeds, 215;
Narses made Patricius of Rome, 245;
the Pragmatic Sanction, 246
Riffel, "Kirche und Staat," quoted, 190, 251, 253, 254, 255, 256, 267
Roehrbacher, the German edition of the history, quoted, 128, 142, 162, 192, 198, 199, 200, 202, 205, 245, 303, 305
Rome, its fall as a city coeval with the universal recognition of the Papal Primacy, 6-10;
this fall and this recognition traced from Constantine to St. Gregory, 356-8;
imperial, its death agony of twenty-one years, 23;
its sufferings in the Gothic war, 210-23;
the new city, from Narses, lives only by the Primacy, 294; its extreme misery in the days of St. Gregory, 281, 284
Romulus Augustulus, Roman emperor, 21
Saxons, rudest of Teuton tribes, humanised by St. Gregory, 348
Sidonius Apollinaris, picture of the Roman senate, 17; description of Rome in 467, 18;
makes Rome acknowledge the over-lordship of the East, 19; describes the Roman baths, 19
Silverius, St., Pope, elected in 536, 205;
deposed by Belisarius, at the instigation of Theodora, 208; martyred in the island of Palmaria, 209
Simplicius, Pope, his outlook from Rome, 45;
his letter to the emperor Zeno, 66
Symmachus, elected Pope in 498, 128;
his letter to the eastern emperor, 129;
compares the imperial and the papal power, 131;
they are the two heads of human society, 133;
Catholic princes acknowledge Popes on their accession, 134; inferences to be deduced from this letter, 136;
the Synodus Palmaris refuses to judge the Pope, 136; addressed by eastern bishops in their misery as a father by his children, 149;
dies in 514, 149
Theodora, empress, her promises to Vigilius, 208; her violent deposition of Pope Silverius, 209
Theodorick, the Ostrogoth, how nurtured, 36;
marches on Italy, 37;
which he conquers, and slays Odoacer, 38;
character of his reign, 39;
slays Pope John I., and his own ministers, Boethius and Symmachus, 41, 329;
judgment of him by St. Gregory, 41;
contrast with Clovis, 42;
his kingdom came to nothing, 43;
asks the title of king from the emperor Anastasius, 128; determines the election of Pope Symmachus against Laurentius, 129; induced to send a bishop as visitor of the Roman Church, 137; said by the emperor to have the charge of governing the Romans committed to him, 159;
his ability and family connections, 177;
final failure of his state, his family, and people, 328-9; his attempt to maintain Arianism in the West foiled, 347
Thierry, "Derniers temps de l'Empire d'Occident," 20
Tillemont, quoted, 64
Totila, elected Gothic king, 214;
is warned by St. Benedict, 215;
takes Rome, 216;
takes Rome, its fourth capture, 218;
killed at Taginas, 219
Valens, emperor, poisons the western empire with Arianism, 50, 92
Valentinian III., his edict in 447 terms the Pope, Leo I., principem episcopalis coronae, 56;
murdered by Maximus, 13
Vere, A. de, quoted, "Legends and Records," 1, 12; "Chains of St. Peter," 272
Vigilius, made Pope by Belisarius, 209;
summoned to Constantinople by Justinian, 226;
his persecution there, 232-243;
his dignity as Pope left unimpaired, 293
Vitiges, besieges Rome, and ruins the aqueducts and Campagna, 210-13; carried a captive to Constantinople, 214
Wandering of the nations, 26-35
Zeno, eastern emperor, 63;
second of the theologising emperors, 47;
his conduct and character, 63;
matched with the emperor Valens, 92;
his death, 91, 99
