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

by T. W. Allies

names an apostolic vicar in Palestine, [49];

dies and is buried at St. Peter's, [50].

Theophanes, the Greek chronographist, marks the rise of the Arabian heresy as the scourge of Christian sins, [260];

ascribes the conduct of the emperor Leo III. to a Mohammedan temper, [335-6];

calls St. Gregory II. “the most holy apostolic man,” [325];

“the successor of Supreme Peter in his Chair,” [325];

describes the tyranny of Constans II., [234];

the murders of Justinian II. and his son, [280];

the persecution of the monks by Constantine Kopronymus, [403].

Toto, the duke, seizes the Papal Chair for his brother, a layman, [431].