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

[189] Præloquia, v., 7.

[190] Ep., ix.

[191] Mansi, xviii., 263.

[192] Antapodosis, iii., 43; Chronicon, c. 29.

[193] Benedict merely records his death. Flodoard (Annals, year 929) says that "some attributed his death to violence, but the majority to grief." Liutprand (iii., 43) affirms that he was smothered with a pillow.

[194] Ep., ii.

[195] Ep., iv.

[196] Ep., xiv.

[197] Published by Liverani, iv., 76-79.

[198] Flodoard, Ecclesiæ Remensis Historia, iv., 20.