Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 320
THE POPES. 249 apostolic pre-eminence of Rome over Constantinople—a pre-eminence whichwas, moreover, recognised by the Council of Chalcedon. The empire, like the Church, needed such a man as St. Leo in its days of … adversity. The invasion of the barbarians was triumphant in the West, andnearly all of the conquerors were either Arians, who denied the divinity ofChrist, or idolaters. Leo triumphed over all these calamities. Rome hadalready been ravished by Alaric in 410, but even he respected the churches in K…
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