Crises in the History of the Papacy / A study of twenty famous popes whose careers and whose influence were important in the development of the church and in the history of the world

by Joseph McCabe

[170] Ep., xxxiii.

[171] The modern writers who have contended that these tot et talia decretalia statuta are not the Isidorean Decretals seem not to have read the whole letter.

[172] Saint Nicholas, Appendix II. (followed by Dr. Mann, vol. iii.). See also F. Rocquain's La Papauté au Moyen Âge (1881). Hefele (bd. iv., p. 292) admits that Nicholas relied on the forgery.

[173] Papst Nikolaus I. (1903).

[174] P. 116.

[175] Epp., lxxxii. and cxxxv.

[176] P. 131.

[177] Ep., lxv.

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