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

by T. W. Allies

his political clemency ends in blood, [373];

an emissary of the eastern emperor Zeno, [374];

failed to assimilate the Roman and Gothic elements in stable union, [375];

allows the election of Popes Hormisdas and John I., imposes that of Pope Felix IV., [378];

did not claim to confirm the election of Pope Symmachus, [377];

begins with slaying Odoacer: ends by slaying Boethius and Symmachus and Pope John I., [375], [378];

ruled with equity and died in remorse, and with him died the Gothic kingdom, [491].

Theodorus, Pope, his accession, [46];

receives the patriarch Pyrrhus, renouncing his heresy in St. Peter's, [48];

condemns him when recalcitrant, [48];