The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I

by T. W. Allies

[186] Reumont and Gregorovius.

[187] Ep. v. 21, p. 751.

[188] Ep. v. 20, tom. ii. 747.

[189] Ep. vii. 40, p. 887.

[190] I have drawn attention to this fact, and the idea which it represents as attested by Popes earlier than St. Gregory, in vol. v., pp. 53-60, of the Formation of Christendom, "The Throne," &c.

[191] Rump, ix. 501-2; see his words quoted above, p. 107.

[192] Ep. vii. 34, p. 882.

[193] Rump, ix. 502.

[194] Providentissime piissimus Dominus ad compescendos bellicos motus pacem quærit ecclesiæ atque ad hujus compagem sacerdotum dignatur corda reducere.-Ep. v. 20, p. 747.

[195] De vi et ratione Primatus Romani Pontificis—c. iii., quoting the letter of St. Gregory to Eulogius, viii. 30.