FOOTNOTES:

[E] The exact date should be 538, as given in the quotation from Schaff's history. "From the death of Silverius [June, 538] the Roman Catholic writers date the episcopacy of Vigilius."—Bower, "History of the Popes," under year 538.


TAKING THE POPE PRISONER
This was accomplished by Berthier, the French general, in 1798.

THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA