Papal Monarchy from St. Gregory the Great to Boniface VIII (590-1303), The
William Barry
Number of quotes: 33
Book ID: 342 Page: 3
Section: 3A1
To the Roman Empire succeeded the Papal Monarchy.
Quote ID: 7904
Time Periods: 167
Book ID: 342 Page: 3
Section: 2C
The Pope called himself Pontifex Maximus; and if this hieratic name—the oldest in Europe—signifies “the priest that offered sacrifice on the Sublician bridge,”….
Quote ID: 7905
Time Periods: 67
Book ID: 342 Page: 3
Section: 1A,3A1,4B
When we speak of the Middle Ages we mean this second, spiritual and Christian Rome…the mother of civilisation, the source to Western peoples of religion, law, and order, of learning, art, and civic institutions. It became to them what Delphi had been to the Greeks…PJ: Look for a quote on Delphi to show what the last part of this quote is saying. Ordered the book on Delphi.
Quote ID: 7906
Time Periods: 167
Book ID: 342 Page: 4
Section: 1A,3A1,4B
It is in this way that the medieval Popes take their place in the Story of the Nations; they continue the Roman history….
Quote ID: 7907
Time Periods: 167
Book ID: 342 Page: 8
Section: 1A,3A4A
And the bishop of Constantinople was but the Emperor’s chaplain, incapable of pursuing a course for himself—the nominee, the puppet, and sometimes the prisoner of one who claimed in his own person to be most sacred, a Divine delegate, and a god on earth. In Rome, the Bishop had no rival or second. He tended more and more to become what Caesar had been of old…..
Quote ID: 7908
Time Periods: 167
Book ID: 342 Page: 9
Section: 3A1
Yet the conquest of the Holy Land, soon won and in short episode lost, was by no means the chief gain to Rome of these world-famous expeditions. From them we date the extensive and permanent taxing-powers, enforced all over Christendom, which the Sovereign Pontiffs insisted upon as their rights….
Quote ID: 7909
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 342 Page: 12
Section: 1A,3A1
This was no sudden creation, but a slow and imperceptible growth of time, extending over five or six hundred years, so complete at length that as in Pope Leo I, we may contemplate the Romulus, so in Gregory the Great we discern the not unkingly Numa, of a city more sacred than the antique Rome, yet hardly less imperial.
Quote ID: 7910
Time Periods: 1567
Book ID: 342 Page: 12/13
Section: 2C
This word “Pontifex”—meaning the sacrificer on the bridge—was associated from very early times with ceremonies in honour or deprecation of the dead, whom the Romans called Lemures. The feast of the Lemuralia was kept on the Sublician Bridge, which spanned the Tiber between Aventine and Janiculum, during the 9th, 11th, and 13thof May.
Quote ID: 7911
Time Periods: 0
Book ID: 342 Page: 13
Section: 2C
Here, then, is the most ancient ritual in which the Pontifex Maximus comes before our view.
Quote ID: 7912
Time Periods: 0
Book ID: 342 Page: 13/14
Section: 2C
Under Augustus, and down to the fall of Paganism, the Emperor always held the title; he was Pope as well as Consul and Imperator. He continued to hold it for some time afterwards; and not only Constantine but his more Christian successors, Valentinian I, and Gratian, are mentioned under this name on inscriptions now extant. Theodosius, however, gave up all pretence to be the High Priest of a heathen worship…
Quote ID: 7913
Time Periods: 01234
Book ID: 342 Page: 14
Section: 2A4,2C
The times of the festivals were in their keeping, and they regulated the Calendar. Julius Cӕsar, in his capacity as Pontifex Maximus, reformed it in 46 B.C. And Pope Gregory XIII., under the same title, reformed it again by his Bull of February 24, 1582.
Quote ID: 7914
Time Periods: 067
Book ID: 342 Page: 16/17
Section: 4B
It was the boast of Cicero, and Virgil’s almost hieratic poem of the Ǣneid bears him out, that the Romans were a deeply religious people.….
…they observed ritual which left untouched no act of their public or private existence. The gods had no concern with virtue…
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they were pledged to the prosperity of the State.
Quote ID: 7915
Time Periods: 01
Book ID: 342 Page: 17
Section: 4B
Rome, as it extended its conquests, brought home the vanquished deities; it became “the temple and the shrine of all gods,”
Quote ID: 7916
Time Periods: 0123
Book ID: 342 Page: 17
Section: 2B2
…the polytheism of the nations was rapidly merging into a Divine Monarchy, of which Cӕsar appeared to be the visible image, the Vicar on Earth, when Christians began to preach their glad tidings….
Quote ID: 7917
Time Periods: 12
Book ID: 342 Page: 19
Section: 2D1
Irenӕus appeals to “the greatest, oldest, and universally known Church, founded and established by the most glorious Apostles Peter and Paul at Rome.” And he says that they “delivered the office of the Episcopate to Linus.” The order, now recognised by experts, is therefore Linus, Anencletus, Clement, Euarestus, Alexander, Xystus, and so forth.
Quote ID: 7918
Time Periods: 3
Book ID: 342 Page: 20
Section: 2D1
It is indisputable, to say the least, that before the year 200, the Bishop of Rome was recognised everywhere as the successor of St. Peter, and not only as head of the local Church, but in some degree—to speak with the Clementine Romance—as presiding over Christendom.
Quote ID: 7919
Time Periods: 3
Book ID: 342 Page: 21
Section: 1A,3A1
…as the Christian system moulded itself on the Imperial, and Bishops fell into their places, according to the importance of the cities over which they ruled.
Quote ID: 7920
Time Periods: 167
Book ID: 342 Page: 25
Section: 1A,3A4A,3A4B,4B
But the Pontifex Maximus was a Roman and a statesman. He left to others the wrangling over terms of Greek art; for him it was enough to insist upon what had been handed down. These gladiatorial displays of logic went on for a well-nigh a hundred and seventy years, during which time the only Pope who furnished a statement of any length to the combatants was Leo I; and his manner is the Roman, sententious and judicial, not argumentative. The Latin language, copious in legal phrase, abounding in the technicalities of ritual, was neither delicate not flexible enough to express the finer shades of heresy. It was the language of command: strong, plain, and matter of fact.
Quote ID: 7921
Time Periods: 1567
Book ID: 342 Page: 28
Section: 2A5
Paganism, it may be briefly said, was to furnish Roman Christianity with many of its holiday or outward shows.
Quote ID: 7922
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 342 Page: 28
Section: 1A,3A1
For Rome, as Dӧllinger says, “took the world ready-made.” It would not vex itself with philosophic inquiries, whether in its former heathen or its present Christian stage.
Quote ID: 7923
Time Periods: 167
Book ID: 342 Page: 30
Section: 3A2A
To others they resigned the task of explaining or defending Christian truth by methods adapted to the intellect. They put down heresy by cutting off the heretic from their communion.
Quote ID: 7924
Time Periods: 17
Book ID: 342 Page: 32
Section: 1A,3A1
The primitive Church was the Empire taken a second time, but for spiritual and heavenly purposes.
Quote ID: 7925
Time Periods: 17
Book ID: 342 Page: 33
Section: 1A,3A1
It is the old Roman vision of a world-empire expanding and realising itself as a Catholic Church….
Quote ID: 7926
Time Periods: 17
Book ID: 342 Page: 37
Section: 3D2
The fall of Rome in 410 was the destruction of Paganism. As a public religion it disappeared no less completely than the Jewish rites and sacrifices on the burning of the Temple. Innocent had saved the Basilicas of the Apostles from profanation, and Alaric remained only three days in the city. But, henceforth, sacred ceremonies, popular festivals, and the great days in the Calendar must all be Christian.
Quote ID: 7927
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 342 Page: 37/38
Section: 1A,3A1,3A4
It was the duty of the Pontiff, as it had formerly been of the Emperor, to feed the people in seasons of famine; to make good the losses occasioned by earthquakes, conflagrations, risings of the Tiber, invasions of Goths or Vandals; to preside at the crowded Church festivals, which took the place of gladiatorial sports, abolished at this time; and to do what in them lay as mediators between the people and their conquerors.
Quote ID: 7928
Time Periods: 17
Book ID: 342 Page: 41
Section: 1A,3A1
Rome had now “become, through the sacred Chair of Peter, head of the world;” its religious empire stretched far beyond its earthly dominion; and this was the work of Providence.
Quote ID: 7929
Time Periods: 17
Book ID: 342 Page: 43
Section: 1A,4B
But it is doubtless true that the wildest of Barbarian chiefs felt a superstitious reverence for the name of Rome.
Quote ID: 7930
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 342 Page: 45/46
Section: 1A,3A1
But wherever a Bishop holds his court, religion protects all that is left of the ancient order. A new Rome ascends slowly above the horizon.….
…it is even the heir of the religion which it has overthrown….
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The Emperor is no more; the Consul has laid down the fasces; the golden Capitol has seen its gods and heroes carried into captivity…
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But the Pontifex Maximus abides; he is now the Vicar of Christ, offering the old civilisation to the tribes of the North.
Quote ID: 7931
Time Periods: 167
Book ID: 342 Page: 49
Section: 1A,3A1,3G,4B
At this hour of deepest eclipse, Gregory ascended the Papal Chair, and the Middle Ages began.In this noble and attractive person we may affirm that all which the ancient world could now bequeath to the modern was to be found. He sprang from the most conspicuous of late Roman Houses, the Anicii, who had long been Christian. The grandson of Pope Felix and son of Gordianus, at one time he was Prӕtor, if not Perfect, of the City. Then, in obedience to the strongest current of his age, he had become a monk. He turned his fine mansion on the Cӕlian into a monastery.
Quote ID: 7932
Time Periods: 167
Book ID: 342 Page: 50
Section: 3A1,3A3,3G
Yet on him it fell to feed and defend the city. The imperial officers could do nothing.
Quote ID: 7933
Time Periods: 267
Book ID: 342 Page: 50
Section: 1A,3A3B,3G
It was a custom as early as Pope Soter (180) for the Roman Church to send assistance wherever Christians found themselves in distress. Now as then the Church fed the Roman people; to such elementary human offices had it come; but in thus stooping it laid foundations deep for the Pope’s temporal power. Gregory acted as lieutenant of the Empire though not by designation.
Quote ID: 7934
Time Periods: 267
Book ID: 342 Page: 51
Section: 3A1,3A4B,3A3B,3G
He alone signs the treaty of peace with Agilulf. He insists on the freedom of soldiers who are desirous of becoming monks, although the Emperor had forbidden it. If, as Pope, he was the richest landowner in Italy, with thousands of serfs and myriads of acres yielding him a revenue, from these resources he nourished his Romans at the doors of the basilicas. Neither would he permit his coloni to be ruthlessly oppressed. He maintained the churches, ransomed captives, set up hospitals for pilgrims, and saw to it that twice in the year a corn-bearing fleet from Sicily supplied Rome with provisions at Portus.
Quote ID: 7935
Time Periods: 67
Book ID: 342 Page: 54
Section: 3D2
By a supreme good fortune, the Franks under Chlodowig (Clovis, Louis, Ludwig, are all forms of this Teutonic name) had accepted Roman Christianity at the hands of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims (496). It was a conversion equal in importance to that of Constantine, nor unlike it in its motives or its results. The mightiest sword wielded by a Barbarian was now at the disposal of the Roman Pontiff.
Quote ID: 7936
Time Periods: ?
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