Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III

by T. W. Allies

contrasts the negligence of Honorius with the four patriarchs, Sergius, Pyrrhus, Paul, and Peter, “who lurked as thieves in the See of Constantinople rather than acted as guides,” [251].

Leo III., Pope St., succeeds Adrian I. in 795, [498];

attacked in a procession, [500];

consultation with Charlemagne at Paderborn, [501];

acquits himself upon his word, [502];

crowns Charles, king of the Franks, as emperor of the Romans, [503].

Leo III., the Isaurian, made emperor, [289], [298];

begins in 726 the Iconoclast contest, [299];

destroys the statue of Christ attached to his palace, [312];

threatens the Pope to break in pieces the statue of St. Peter, [313];