[126]. Cfr. Alzog’s Church Hist., Papisch & Byrne, vol. i. p. 396.
[127]. See Chrysostom, De Sacerdotio, iii. 15.
[128]. See Graziani, Lettera di S. Clemente Primo Papa e Martire ai Corinti, ... corredata di note critiche e filologiche, Rome, 1832.
[129]. Cfr. Devoti, Inst. Can., lib. i. tit. v. sect. i. par. vii., in note.
[130]. See Augustine, Epist. clv.; Synesius, Epist. lxvii.; Baronius, ad an. 304; Baluze, Miscell., ii. 102.
[131]. H. E., vi. 43.
[132]. Compare Tertullian, Apol., xxxvii.
[133]. Cfr. Novaes, whose voluminous, erudite, and orthodox work, the Lives of the Popes, is enriched with preliminary dissertations on every subject relating to the Papacy and the Cardinalate.
[134]. De Rossi, in his Bullettino di Archeologia Cristiana, Anno iv., Jan.-Feb., 1866, has given the reasons for the preponderating influence which the cardinal-deacons had in the affairs of the church, and for their frequent succession to the Papacy. Indeed, it became in the third and fourth centuries an almost invariable rule to elect the archdeacon to succeed to the chair of St. Peter.
[135]. Cap. Si duo, viii, dist. lxxix.