Paschal the First

CONCERNING SAINT PASCHAL THE FIRST

ROMAN PONTIFF.

YEAR DCCCXXIV

Paschalis Pope of Rome (S.)

BY THE AUTHOR G. H.

[1] The celebrated veneration of the most holy Pontiff Paschal the first is in the Vatican basilica on this 14 May, because his sacred body in the said church from his death was buried, and even now rests. The Lections of the 2nd Nocturn begin: Of the blessed Father Paschal with the rest from the Common of a Pontiff and Confessor. The sacred cult, The Prayer Exaudi quaesumus. The Mass Sacerdotes tui, and the Gloria and Credo are said. His sacred memory is inscribed in the tables of the Roman Martyrology in this manner. At Rome S. Paschal the Pope, who raised very many bodies of holy Martyrs from the crypts, and honorably placed them in diverse churches. To which Baronius annotated, that his Acts are extant in an old manuscript codex of the monastery of S. Cecilia beyond the Tiber, transcribed by lections, just as they had been wont to be read in the Church. We took care diligently to have inquiry made, that we might obtain these Acts: but always we received the answer, that they no longer are extant there. We give therefore, what in the Lives of the Pontiffs Anastasius the Librarian wrote, The Life written by Anastasius the Librarian, nearly contemporary, about forty years younger: and to these we insert his Sermon or Apostolic Letters, concerning the finding and translation of the body of S. Cecilia and her Companions: so that it may not seem a wonder if he had a very solemn cult in the said Church of S. Cecilia. There is a memory of that same S. Paschal in the Bologna surveyed by Masini, asserting that an illustrious Relic of his is preserved in the church of S. Francis. Constantine Ghinius inserted him in his Birthdays of the Holy Canons: but Wion, Dorganius, Menardus, Bucelinus inscribed him in the Benedictine Martyrology, because Leo III the Pope committed to him the monastery of S. Stephen the Protomartyr to be ruled: but of what institute that was, is not indicated.

[2] That he was ordained on a Sunday on the feast of the Conversion of S. Paul the 25th of January in the year 817, when his predecessor Stephen had died two days before, we will teach in the Chronological series of the Roman Pontiffs, to be given before the other part of May. Concerning this ordination Eginhard in the Annals on the Deeds of Louis the Pious the Emperor on the said year writes these things: Paschal the successor elected, An embassy sent to Louis the Pious by Paschal, after his ordination solemnly completed, sent both gifts and an excusatory letter to the Emperor: in which he asserts the honor of the Pontificate to have been as it were imposed on him not only unwilling, but even greatly resisting. Yet another legation being sent, he asked that the pact which had been made with his predecessors, be also made and confirmed with him. This legation Theodore the Nomenclator both carried, and obtained the things which he had asked.

[3] who on account of the persecution of Leo the Armenian, There ruled then already in the Eastern Empire the most impious iconoclast Leo the Armenian, whose tyranny in the Life of S. Nicephorus Patriarch of Constantinople, illustrated by us on the day 13 March, at length describes Ignatius the Deacon his disciple. And when Theodore Cassitera had been intruded into the See of the exiled Patriarch this man dared to send apocrisiaries to Pope Paschal: who not to have been received by him will be clear below. We have the Life of S. Theodore the Studite, then also sent into exile, by Michael his disciple most faithfully written, in which these things concerning Pope Paschal are read: The excellent man also sent letters to the four Patriarchs, very prudently and opportunely, I say of the elder Rome, and of Jerusalem, of Antioch and of Alexandria. he is appealed to by S. Theodore the Studite, Which each one commemorated, how the image of Christ had been contumeliously treated by the persecutors, and all the orthodox sent into prison and exile, then finally roused each one to the defense and bringing help to the faith and truth imperiled, which falsehood thus oppressed. These things there. But these are made manifest in the 12th epistle of the 3rd book, of which this is the exordium: To Paschal Pope of Rome. To him endowed in all things with the highest virtue, the great light, the first Prince of Priests, our Lord the Apostolic Pope Paschal, John, Theodosius, Athanasius, John, Theodore, the least Presbyters and Superiors of those, who of Cathara, Pieridius, Eucaria and Studium. Then some things being omitted these things are had: Hear Apostolic head, by God set Pastor of the sheep of Christ, Doorkeeper of the kingdom of heaven, Rock of faith, upon which is built the Catholic Church. For you are Peter, adorning and governing the See of Peter. Grievous wolves have rushed into the fold of the Lord: the gates of hell, as once, have been snatched into it. What is this? Christ suffers persecution with his mother and ministers. For the assault against the image, is the persecution of the prototype. Hence the detention of the Patriarchal head, that he may bring help to the laboring Church of Constantinople. and the exiles and relegations of Archbishops and Priests and monks and nuns, and fetters and iron bonds, and torments and at the last death. O horrible hearing! The venerable image of our Savior God, which even the demons dread, has been affected with contumelies and held in mockery, not only in the royal city but also in every region and town. The altars have been destroyed, the temples destroyed, sacred things profaned, blood poured out, and is poured out, of those who retain the Gospel: persecutions and exiles press upon those, who still remain. Every pious mouth has been silenced for fear of death: the adversary and blaspheming tongue has been opened: all flesh has been moved, dwelling in ambiguity… Hither therefore from the West, O imitator of Christ, rise again, and do not repel unto the end. To you Christ our God said: And you sometime being converted confirm your brethren. Luke 21. Behold the time, behold the place: help us, who are by God for this ordained: stretch forth your hand, as much as can be done. You have power from God, because you are the Prince of all, in which you are set. Terrify, we beseech, the heretical beasts with the reed of your divine word. Good Pastor, lay down your soul for the sheep, we beseech etc.

[4] We grieve that the Apostolic letters then rendered by S. Paschal are not extant, but of them Theodore the Studite makes mention in the 35th epistle of the same 2nd book to Pope Paschal, in which he thus writes: The East from on high looked upon us, Christ our God, your Beatitude in the West, as a kind of torch divinely shining, for the illumination of the Church, which is under heaven, in the Apostolic first See setting it. For we received a spiritual light, who in the darkness and in the shadow of death of the wicked heresy were held, and laid aside the cloud of sadness, and emerged into the best hope, when we had learned from the Brethren and our fellow-servants, whom we sent, what and how great things your holy Highness did and said. When the heretical Apocrisiaries indeed like thieves, he did not admit even into his sacred sight: but when they were still far off, deservedly rejected them. But with our calamities from the letters, hearing and relation of the Sent ones having compassion, he grieved and groaned after the example of God as for his own members. he admits the Catholics: And by the thing itself we knew, that the manifest successor of the Prince of the Apostles presides over the Roman Church: and we surely persuaded ourselves that the Lord had by no means deserted our Church: to which the one and only help from you has hitherto, and from the very beginning in occurring troubles by the providence of God been granted. You therefore are the unmuddied and sincere fountain from the beginning of orthodox truth. You against every heretical storm the tranquil set-apart harbor of the whole Church. You the city of refuge of salvation chosen by God… We beseech that your holy and Apostolic soul console us. First that it not intermit its prayers bending God for the stability and salvation of all, we adjure your most sacred bowels: then that what by the instinct of the Holy Spirit for the utility of our humility and the perpetual praise of your virtue it has deliberated and decreed, it bring to the end God helping. with happy success. But Leo the Armenian in the year 820 on the night of the Nativity of Christ being slain, there was substituted Michael the Stammerer, to whom Theodore the Studite wrote the 74th epistle of book 2 in which toward the end he has these things: Now the acceptable time, now the day of salvation, that we be reconciled to Christ, your peaceful Empire being the auspice and approving it: that we be united to the head of the Churches of God Rome, and through it to the three Patriarchs, that unanimously with one mouth we glorify God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[5] We illustrated on the day 3 February the Acts of S. Anschar Archbishop of Hamburg and Apostle of the Danes and Swedes, and for the greater notice of Danish matters, §. 10 we deduced the Apostolic men, who labored in the conversion of the Danes, and first we brought forward S. Willibrord, who led away thence thirty boys: He sends for the conversion of the Danes Ebbo Archbishop of Rheims, after whom Ebbo Archbishop of Rheims, by the counsel of the Emperor and the authority of the Roman Pontiff, for the cause of preaching went to the borders of the Danes, and baptized many of them coming to the faith. As the Annals of Eginhard, of S. Bertin and of Metz report on the year 823, and on the preceding the Fulda ones. The Roman Pontiff then was S. Paschal, whose decree concerning the Mission of Ebbo we published in the same place §. 10, where among other things he thus writes: Because in the parts of the North certain Nations dwell, which have not yet had the knowledge of God, nor are reborn by the sacred wave of baptism, exist under the shadow of death, and rather serve the creature than the Creator with a slothful mind, as we have known; therefore the present most reverend Brother and our fellow-Bishop Ebbo, Archbishop of the holy Church of Rheims, we have judged necessary with the consent of the faithful, to be directed into those parts for the illumination of the truth… Providing a colleague for this divine administration of the Legation, adding Halitgarius a religious one, and Halitgarius afterward Bishop of Cambrai. we constituted him a minister, that he may be able at an opportune time to intimate to the Apostolic See, concerning the entrusted business, more easily the Lord granting. Then to bringing them help he exhorts others. Halitgarius was afterward

Bishop of Cambrai, sent by Louis the Pious to Constantinople to Michael the Stammerer the Emperor about the year 828.

[6] There are alleged in Jerome Rubeus book 5 of the History of the Ravennates letters of Pope Paschal, to Petronax Archbishop of that same Church, by which he confirms by his authority all the privileges, which were approved by the earlier Pontiffs. he confirms the privileges of the Church of Ravenna. These letters, says Rubeus, are still extant in the bark of a tree, whose length is two cubits, the breadth one: written in a most beautiful Lombard character, with lines distant from one another by two transverse fingers, but in several places gnawed through, written in the month of July, in the 12th Indiction. Therefore in the year 819. But those letters thus imperfect from Rubeus are extant in the Tomes of the Councils, and in Ughellus volume 2 of Italy sacred in the Archbishops of Ravenna column 344.

[7] Eginhard in the Annals on the Deeds of Louis the Pious the Emperor on the year 821 makes mention of two Legations of Pope Paschal to the said Emperor. He sends 2 legations in the year 821 to Louis, The former he received in the month of May at Nijmegen, which the Legates Peter Bishop of Centumcellae and Leo the Nomenclator conducted, who were quickly dispatched. The later Legates Theodore the Primicerius and Florus with great gifts came to Theodonis Villa in the month of October. But what affairs were treated through them, is not indicated. In the year afterward 823 in the same Eginhard Lothar, he crowns Lothar the Emperor, when according to his father's command he was doing justice in Italy, and now prepared himself to return from Italy, at the request of Pope Paschal came to Rome, and honorably received by him, on the holy day of Pascha at S. Peter's received the crown of the Kingdom and the name of Emperor and Augustus. Thence having returned to Pavia, in the month of June he came to the Emperor…

[8] To this man it was announced that Theodore Primicerius of the Roman Church, and Leo his son-in-law in the Lateran Patriarchate had first been blinded, and then beheaded: and that this had befallen them because they acted in all things faithfully toward the party of Lothar the young Emperor. And there were those who said, that either by the command or by the counsel of Paschal the Pontiff the thing had been perpetrated. having suffered calumny on account of the slaying of the Primicerius, To investigate which and diligently search out there were sent Adalung Abbot of the monastery of S. Vedast, and Hunfrid Count of Chur. But before they had set out, there came the Legates of Paschal, John Bishop of Silva Candida, and Benedict Archdeacon of the holy Apostolic See, asking the Emperor, that he would take away that infamy from the Pontiff, by which he was believed to have consented to the slaying of the mentioned men. To whom when he had answered, as reason demanded; he commanded his aforesaid Legates to go to Rome to investigate the truth of the matter, as he had before disposed… The Legates coming to Rome, could not attain the certainty of the matter: before the Bishops he is excused. because Paschal the Pontiff purged himself from the participation of this deed with a great number of Bishops by an oath: and the slayers of the aforesaid, because they were of the household of S. Peter, greatly defending, he condemned the dead as guilty of treason, and pronounced them rightly slain. And on account of this with the aforesaid Legates who had been sent to him, he sent to the Emperor John Bishop of Silva Candida and Sergius the Librarian, also Quirinus the Subdeacon and Leo Master of soldiers. Who when he had learned both through them and through his own Legates concerning the oath of the Pontiff and the excuse of the guilty, thinking nothing further was to be done by him in this business, sent back the mentioned Bishop John and his companions to the Pontiff, a fitting answer being given.

[9] S. Paschal migrated from his Pontifical See to the heavenly glory in the year 824, when he had presided over the Church seven years five months and seventeen days, he dies in the year 824 namely from the 28th of January of the year 817, to this 14 May; on which day his feast even now is kept as related above. The error which had crept in at the beginning of the Life we corrected, when five months and sixteen days were read.

LIFE

By the Author Anastasius the Librarian.

Paschalis Pope of Rome (S.)

BHL Number: 6467

FROM ANASTASIUS.

CHAPTER I.

The virtues of his Pontificate. The churches of SS. Peter, Mary, Praxedis adorned. A fire extinguished.

Paschal, by nation a Roman, of a father Bonosus sat seven years, three months, seventeen days. Who from the earliest time of his age devoted to the divine worship, He excels in doctrine and imbued in the Patriarchate of the most sacred Church with the studies of the divine and salutary Scripture, both in the Psalter and in the sacred pages of the new and old Testament specially learned, elegant and perfect in all goodness, was made indeed Subdeacon, and afterward honorably consecrated Deacon and Presbyter. But the holy man was and in sanctity of life: chaste, pious, magnanimous, devout in speech, full of modesty, and most cheerfully and pleasantly in the almsgiving of the poor distributing opportunely all that he had. In divine colloquies therefore more frequently with religious and holy monks with sedulous observation day and night he persisted, and in prayers and vigils and daily fastings humbly and honestly he flourished.

[2] Whom while his predecessor Lord Leo thrice most blessed Pope had beheld so vigilant in studies and devoted to religion; he is set over the monastery of S. Stephen, then to him the monastery of B. Stephen the first Martyr, near the basilica of B. Peter the Prince of the Apostles, to be ruled he committed: because it is written: No one lights a lamp, and puts it in a hiding-place, nor under a bushel but on a candlestick: that those who enter, may see the light. Matt. 5 Whence he who corrected for himself the gains of this temporal life for the eternal soberly and usefully moderating, the example of living well in his subjects, and the correction of piety more religiously adorned. Who also the grace of hospitality to pilgrims, who for the love of B. Peter the Apostle from far regions came to his thresholds, usefully preparing he ministered necessaries, and secretly, to those who lacked, cheerfully gave out.

[3] And always daily he grew in the work of God, until his predecessor Lord Stephen the Pope migrated from this light to eternal beatitude. While therefore, through so great examples of good work especially, his fame ran far and wide; and almighty God granted the rule of his Church under the care of a pious governance aptly and moderately to dispose; with one concord, then by the consent of all he is chosen Pontiff, with one and the same will, the divine counsel intervening, by all the Priests or Nobles and the whole Clergy, and also the Optimates or all the Roman people, to the praise and glory of almighty God, he was elevated to the Apostolic See as Pontiff. For he was of the precepts or institutes of the Fathers, of the Pontiffs, and of the canons, and of the laws and sanctions a most becoming observer; and of every norm of justice, from the time of his ordination, a most noble promulgator: slow to be angry and swift to have mercy. Rendering no evil for evil, nor giving vengeance according to anyone's offense; but always merciful with pious love to all citizens, and a lover and governor of the Roman people committed to him by God he was. For of all the Churches of God with the highest zeal and the highest providence according to the wonted care of religion he was a cultivator, restorer, and in all things a most devout adorner. This most blessed Prelate seeking many bodies of Saints, found them. Which also more diligently within the city, to the honor and glory of God, honestly he re-buried. The roga stipend also of all his Clergy in the Presbytery indeed in many ways he enlarged; he translates the Bodies and all his treasure in the heavenly sacrarium he laid up, especially for captives and exiles, redeeming them not only from regions across the sea, men and women, with gold or silver, but also through far journeys of the roads everywhere seeking, both in the parts of Spain, and through individual places finding, like a good and true shepherd, he led to their own.

[4] He made moreover on the sacred altar of B. Peter the Prince of the Apostles a covering of wondrous magnitude, beautiful and exceedingly decorated, of gold and gems woven, prefiguring the history, how that same Apostle was snatched from his bonds by an Angel. In that same venerable basilica before the entrance, which leads to the body, in the place of the Ferrata he set an altar, in which also he most honorably placed the venerable body of B. Sixtus the Martyr and Pontiff: of S. Sixtus, where also above he becomingly built an arch adorned with mosaic. In a similar manner in that same most sacred church of the blessed Peter the Apostle near the entrance, which leads to B. Petronilla, an oratory of the highest magnitude and beauty he adorningly built: and over the columns in a quadriform he decorated a chamber with mosaic and beautiful metals. In which also the bodies of the most blessed Martyrs Processus and Martinianus, to the honor and glory of almighty God, of SS. Processus and Martinianus memorially and honorably he re-buried. In whose apse a most beautiful image of gilded silver with diverse histories among the encrustations of marbles set in order he fixed, which weigh sixty-two pounds and a half, and likewise lilies of silver weighing seventeen pounds and two ounces. Also gabathae of purest silver seven in number, weighing together thirteen pounds, a half, and two ounces. and he variously adorns their oratory. Images also of gilded silver he made in that same venerable place three in number: one of the Savior our Lord Jesus Christ, and two of the other blessed Martyrs Processus and Martinianus, weighing together thirty-six pounds. Also another image of purest gold he offered for the ornament of the aforesaid oratory, weighing thirteen pounds and three ounces. In a similar manner baskets of cleanest silver eight in number, weighing all forty-three pounds. And likewise a basin for the sponge, for nocturnal diligences, there of silver he set, weighing seven pounds and nine ounces. Moreover also keys in the manner of a Cross, of purest gold and gems of wondrous decoration adorned, in that same venerable place, deservedly he decorated… Where also he ordained a regular, which he overlaid with silver plates, weighing twenty pounds: over which he set two arches of silver, and four gammadia, which together weigh sixty pounds. The propitiatory also of the altar adorned with silver plates he led round, and its sacred confession within and without with its little folds most nobly he built round… And over the altar of those same most blessed Martyrs he set two coverings, of which one of fundatum with a cross of chrysoclavum, and the other of quadrapulum he wondrously adorned. Curtains also greater of fundatum seven in number, with a periclysis of blattin sewn round, likewise he decorated.

[5] But neither do we think this is to be passed over in silence, that at the same time the diabolical cunning working, through the sloth of certain men of the English nation, so was all their dwelling, which in their language is called burgus, by the overflowing flame of fire burned, a fire, arisen in the houses of the English, that not even the traces of the former dwelling in that same place could be found: by whose overflowing fire almost the whole portico, which leads

to the basilica of the Prince of the Apostles, the fuel of fire devastated. And when this thrice most blessed Pontiff about the hour of night's silence had perceived it, suddenly for the love of the church of B. Peter the Apostle, and so great a devastation of those pilgrims, with bare feet unshod on foot he ran. To whom so great a mercy of almighty God at his coming was present, praying he extinguishes it: that the place, in which first that same coangelic Pontiff stood, by no means further did it permit the force of the fire to pass beyond. But he beseeching the clemency of God, and the multitude of the faithful who were present contending, the line of the fire God having mercy was extinguished: and so it was accomplished, that for the space of the whole night persevering even to dawn in that same place he remained. Whence afterward the thrice most blessed Pastor, considering the want of those pilgrims, which through the snares of diabolical fraud crept in, so great gifts and so great benefits, as he was always wont, in their necessities imparted in gold and silver, and both garments of bodies, and the burned things he restores. and the other necessary nourishments all more abundantly he ministered: but also an abundance of woods for the usefulness of timber, so that they might usefully restore their dwellings, just as before they had been in that same place. The portico also, which by that same disaster was devastated, more becomingly than it had been for the better most firmly he restored.

[6] In the church of S. Peter he offers curtains, This excellent and venerable Pontiff made in the church of B. Peter the Prince of the Apostles his nourisher, curtains of chrysoclavum through the arches of the Presbytery, having the history of the marvels of the Apostles, which through them the Lord deigned to work, forty-six in number. The church also of the most blessed Martyr of Christ Praxedis, which formerly built in ancient times, he renews the Church of S. Praxedis, now wearied with too great old age, so that about to fall from its foundations, it threatened its ruin, that same venerable Pontiff (foreseeing its ruin before, and applying care to that same church, there often being vigilant) changing it into another not far place, to a better state than it had long been he raised. The apse indeed of that same church, adorned with mosaic work, with various colors becomingly he decorated. In a similar manner the triumphal arch of the same with metals wondrously perfecting he embellished. This most blessed and excellent Pontiff many bodies of Saints, he brings in the bodies of Saints, for a long time lying in the cemeteries, with pious solicitude, lest they should remain in neglect, seeking, and finding them gathering, with great affection of veneration into the now said church of the holy Martyr of Christ Praxedis, which wondrously renewing he had built, with the convocation of all the Romans, the Bishops, Presbyters, Deacons, and Clergy singing praise to God, carrying them, re-buried. Which while by the inmost vigilance of heart of the most holy and coangelic Prelate were done, that by the prayers of the holy bodies there re-buried, pleasing God unceasingly above the stars, he might be helped with almighty Lord; he built in that same place from the foundations a monastery, which also by the name of Saint Praxedis the Virgin he titled: in which also a holy congregation of Greeks gathering, which day and night might diligently render the praises of psalmody of Greek modulation to almighty God and the Saints there resting, and he builds a Monastery for the Greeks, he introduced. Indeed in that same venerable monastery conferring very many estates, and places of possessions urban or rustic, superfluously and abundantly he enriched it. Nay also in that same church he made an oratory of B. Zeno the Martyr of Christ, where also placing his most sacred body, with mosaic enlargingly he adorned it. He made moreover in that same church a ciborium of silver, weighing eight hundred and ten pounds, nay also the propitiatory of the sacred altar of silver plates wondrously he adorned. The confession finally of it, with its little folds within and without enclosed, most beautifully he embellished and decorated, which together weigh three hundred pounds. Over the altar of that same venerable church he made a regnum spanoclystum of yellow gold, or with diverse stones adorned, weighing five pounds and two ounces and a half. And in that same sacred altar he made a covering of chrysoclavum, with diverse histories of wondrous magnitude and beauty adorned. Likewise, where above, he offered another covering of chrysoclavum, of gold and gems made, having the history of the Virgins with kindled torches, wondrously embellished and decorated. To the sacred body of that same Virgin finally he offered an image of silver plates prefigured, weighing ninety-nine pounds. This most benign Prelate made in the now said monastery an oratory of B. Agnes the virgin of Christ, of wondrous beauty adorned.

[7] The church finally of the holy Mother of God and ever Virgin Mary our Lady, He restores and adorns the Church of S. Mary: which is called Dominica, formerly built and now near to ruin, with skillful vigilance the aforesaid Pontiff ampler and better, than before it had been, from the foundations building, he renewed. And the apse of that same church with mosaic he wondrously decorated. Where also he offered very many gifts, namely a ciborium of silver, weighing three hundred thirty-two pounds. The propitiatory of the sacred altar of silver plates he becomingly decorated. The confession also of it with little folds within and without wondrously perfecting he adorned, weighing one hundred and fifteen pounds and three ounces. Likewise, where above, he made a gabatha of purest gold, weighing two pounds and eight ounces. But also an arch of silver, and two little columns with two gammadia… Nay also in the sacred altar he made a covering of chrysoclavum, having the history of the Lordly Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, of wondrous beauty adorned. Again, where above, he made a covering of stauracum most beautiful with a periclysis of blattin. Likewise another covering of blattin bizantea having a tablet of chrysoclavum, with the face of the holy Mother of God, and the Angel's service, standing with a periclysis of stauracum. And likewise another covering of stauracum having peacocks, and in the midst a cross of blattin. Moreover also two coverings of quadrapulum, having in the midst a cross of blattin. Likewise, where above, he made a covering woven of gold with a periclysis of blattin. One red coverlet of silk. He made also round about the altar four red silk curtains with gammadia, and Crosses of quadrapulum. This venerable Prelate offered on the beam before the vestibule of the altar three Tyrian curtains, and five of quadrapulum. In the greater arches of that same church he made curtains of quadrapulum twenty in number, and through the arches of the Presbytery small curtains of stauracum four, and likewise in the entrance of the Presbytery two Tyrian curtains. This most benign Pontiff made in the entrance of the now said Church greater hangings of quadrapulum with a periclysis of fundatum very wondrously.

ANNOTATIONS.

p. Gammadia or Gammadium to Magrius is a garment with the letters Γ woven in, so that that letter placed fourfold, makes a cross in this manner: of which kind of texture in the Sacerdotal chasubles of the Greeks it is most usual: why not in the same manner described an orbicular little dish, projecting at either horn of the twin arch, bear here the same name.

q. A covering of fundatum, seems to me to be said woven with gold over a wholly silken ground or the contrary: but what a covering of quadrapulum is is not so easy to divine, perhaps a tessellated texture is signified.

r. A cross of chrysoclavum that is of cloth Chryso or gold-clavated.

s. Periclysis without doubt notes a border going round, from περικλύζω I pour round. Moreover Blattin, Blattum, Blatta is purple, Blatteus purple-colored.

t. Spelman in the Glossary sets forth a various signification of Burgus, and at length teaches it also to be taken for a dwelling, but a fortified or fenced one: but that some Codices have Baxus, as that word is not proved to have been in any use among the Anglo-Saxons, so it deservedly seems to be rejected.

v. All the exemplars thus read, both in gold and silver or garments of bodies, which it pleased by a slight change to reduce to a more apt sense.

x. S. Praxedis is venerated on 21 July, and her sister Pudentiana, and the father of both S. Pudens on 19 May, to which day the Acts of all are referred.

y. Namely of those monks, who in the greatest number were driven from the monasteries, subject to the fury of the iconoclasts.

z. Zeno a Roman Martyr with very many companions is inscribed in the Roman Martyrology on the day 9 July, who seems here to be understood.

aa. Ciborium, other nations call nearly a tabernacle; and it is said not only of that place, in which the body of Christ is kept (although hence first was taken the appellation of ciborium) but also where Relics are buried: and such often are seen at Rome, so built and raised above the altar, that they are as a roof to it, sustained by four columns.

bb. What a Propitiatory was in the old law is known, namely a golden tablet, which over the Ark they stretched, Seraphim standing on either side: but here it seems to be understood a tablet erected over the altar, and distinguished with images of Saints, before which were disposed six candlesticks with a cross: whence in the use of sacred things it has remained, that to that same tablet on either side two incensations are directed, as to the images there expressed. There is however below also a Propitiatory or Confession, of which it seems to be as it were a part, namely the very wall, stretched before the sepulchres of the holy Martyrs under the place of the altar, and adorned with similar decor.

cc. Confession, to the Greeks μαρτύριον, is below the altar a deeper place, into which the faithful enter, to venerate the very bodies of the Saints, resting under the altar behind the now said Propitiatory.

dd. Regnum, that is a crown: thus to Hormisdas there came a regnum from the King of the Franks with most precious gems Anastasius says: and today also the usage holds that the Pontifical crown (which now is threefold) is called regnum. But what is a regnum spanoclystum? from σπάνος rare and κλύζω I pour? I esteem it can be rendered an interrasile crown, namely so cast of gold, that it be not like a cap closed on every side, but at intervals grow rare with various ornament, as the Imperial crowns are wont to be painted as if equipped with leaves and flowers coming together above. Thus below at num. 20 is named the Propitiatory of the sacred altar Spanoclystum, that is interrasile or transparent or perforated.

ee. This Church is on the Caelian hill, vulgarly now called S. Maria della Navicella: in which these verses are read formed from these Acts.

This house formerly had been broken with ruins: Now it shines continually decorated with various metals: And behold its glory shines, like Phoebus in the world, Who after dark putting to flight the veils of foul night. Virgin Mary to you Paschal, the honest Prelate, Built this hall glad to remain through the ages.

There for the insignia of the Pope his name is expressed in this manner: and there is the Lenten station on the second Sunday. Consult the History of the Roman Stations illustrated by Pomponius Ugonius.

ff. A covering of Stauracum, that is of cloth, not with vine-tendrils or twisted clusters woven, as Vossius interprets, because στουράχια are called vine-tendrils; but with little crosses, that from σταυρὸς cross is made σταύραξ and hence diminutively σταυράκιον. Thus Anastasius in Hadrian has curtains of stauracine or quadrapulous palls and stauracine or octuple curtains: but they are called quadrapula and octapla from the figure of the little dishes signed with a cross, square or octagonal, with which including the little crosses themselves such texture was sprinkled.

gg. Bizantea perhaps this purple is so called, because from the Byzacene province of Africa: yet it is found also written Byzantea, as if from Byzantium: either therefore, as it is written we retain, until from elsewhere more light shine.

CHAPTER II.

The church of S. Cecilia built and adorned. Her and others' bodies found and translated.

[8] The servant of Christ the almighty Lord, and the aforenamed Pontiff, bearing the greatest care and solicitude of the Churches of God by foreseeing unceasingly, when on a certain day for the zeal of prayer he came to the church of the holy Virgin of God and Martyr of Christ Cecilia, He builds anew the Church of S. Cecilia: now shaken with too great old age, and seeing its walls, even from the foundations about to fall, which through olden times had withered by the defect of antiquity, and almost broken with ruins long anciently torn remained; zeal being given in that same place with a magnificent work a new church he began to build; and to perfect a form better, than it had been, he studied. But neither do we esteem that to be passed over, that when on a certain day he was going to the church of blessed Peter the Prince of the Apostles, that with that same B. Peter the Apostle in his wonted manner he might celebrate the vigils, and before his confession the matin lauds the Lord's day brightening sitting might chant; suddenly weighed down with sleep he saw standing by him a maiden of virginal aspect, adorned with angelic garments, who uttered such addresses of speech: Many thanks we bring to you, because the contest, which concerning me you had set, lending your ears to frustrating reports spread abroad you did not abandon: indeed you who so much with me instructed by her appearing, were, that we might be able to speak in turn with our own mouth. These things the now often aforesaid Pontiff diligently hearing, began studiously to inquire, who she herself was, who said such words to him, or by what name she was called. To whom she answered: If you ask the name, I am called Cecilia the handmaid of Christ. To whom the supreme Prelate saying: How can I believe this, since formerly it was reported by fame, that the body of that same venerable Martyr of Christ Cecilia had been by Aistulf King of the Lombards, hostilely besieging Rome, secretly carried off by his men. To the venerable Pontiff intimating such things, the handmaid of almighty God said: That the Lombards desirously sought me that they might find me, is wholly true: but by the help of my Lord Jesus Christ, and the aid of my Lady the holy Mother of God and ever Virgin Mary, neither to find me nor to carry me away, as they had wished, hence farther could they. And therefore as you have begun to seek me, in what manner you may find me cease not to apply yourself to assiduous labor: because to the Lord God, for whose love and honor I suffered, it has pleased, that you find me, and in the church which you have newly built lay me. And saying these things she was taken from the eyes of the beholder.

[9] Then that same venerable Pontiff the matin lauds being discharged, for the token of so sure and indubitable a revelation began here and there more laboriously to seek, where her most sacred body lay buried. Which God granting while he solicitously sought, he found it in the cemetery of Praetextatus, situated outside the Appian gate, clothed in golden garments, he finds the bodies of SS. Cecilia, Valerian and their companions, with the body of her venerable spouse Valerian: and likewise the linens, full of the blood of that Martyr, when struck by the impious executioner, she the Martyr of Christ the Lord reigning unto ages was consecrated. All which handling with his own hands he gathered, and with great honor within the walls of this Roman City, in the church dedicated by the name of that same holy Martyr, to the praise and glory of almighty God, the body of that same Virgin with the most dear Valerian her spouse, and Tiburtius and Maximus the Martyrs, and also Urban and Lucius the Pontiffs, under the most sacred altar he placed. For the honor namely and help of which Saints he built a monastery, in honor of the Virgins or Martyrs Agatha and Cecilia, near her church, in the place which is called the lying Hills. he builds a monastery, In which also a congregation of monks serving God, for the daily praises in the aforesaid title of S. Cecilia day and night to be chanted to the almighty Lord, he constituted, and for the support and the trimming of the lamps, or the utility and stipends of the monks, and also for the love and affection, which toward his predecessor of pious recollection Lord Leo the Third the Pope he seemed to have, the hospital of S. Peregrinus, set at blessed Peter the Apostle, in the place which is called Naumachia (which that same his Predecessor had built, and to it he joins the hospital of S. Peregrinus, and by the neglect and abandonment of the Provosts, by the want of poverty seemed to be consumed) with pious help providing, the aforesaid hospital, with its farms and granges and estates, or also coloni or houses, and households, and all things, which justly and reasonably according to the statutes of the laws, were by his predecessor donated in the now aforesaid hospital; and which by him with pious devotion to the increase of the now said monastery were adjoined, in fields or vineyards, or also houses, and the rustic household, by the page of his authority for the now named congregation of monks in that same monastery he confirmed.

[10] Which most holy Prelate for the love of the venerable Saints made in the ornaments of that same church the apse decorated with mosaic work, and he confers various ornaments: and a ciborium of wondrous magnitude of silver weighing five hundred pounds and a half and eight ounces. The propitiatory finally of the sacred altar, or the confession within and without with its regulae of silver plates wondrously perfecting he embellished, which together weigh sixty-four pounds and five ounces. To the sacred body indeed of that same Virgin he offered an image of silver plates, weighing ninety-five pounds. He made also before the vestibule of the altar a regularis clothed with silver plates, and two columns, where also he placed one arch, and two gammadia, weighing together one hundred pounds and a half. He offered there himself three gilded silver images, weighing together forty-eight pounds and a half. The often-aforesaid Prelate also made through the arches of that same church greater chalices of silver twenty-six, weighing together one hundred nine pounds and a half. Likewise, where above, he offered two silver baskets, weighing two pounds and eight ounces: a gabatha of purest gold, weighing three pounds. The now aforesaid Pontiff made two baskets exafotum of silver, weighing ten pounds: three gabathae of silver, weighing five pounds: a thurible of gilded silver, weighing one pound. This most benign Prelate offered in the sacred altar a covering of blattin bizantea, having in the midst a tablet of chrysoclavum with the history, how the Angel B. Cecilia or Valerian

and Tiburtius crowned, with a periclysis of chrysoclavum of wondrous beauty adorned. Likewise there he made a covering of fundatum alythinum, having round about a periclysis of olovera. For the love of that same Virgin he made another covering of porphyry fundatum, having in the midst a Cross of woven gold becomingly decorated. Indeed in the now said altar he offered a white covering, marked with little roses, having in the midst a Cross of blattin with psillia, and a periclysis of blattin byzantea most beautifully adorned. He offered also in the aforenamed altar a covering of quadrapulum. The venerable Pontiff made alythine curtains hanging round about the altar four, having Crosses and gammadia of fundatum and quadrapulum. But in the little chest, where he placed the venerable head of that same Virgin, he made a small covering of Tyrian with a periclysis of blattin. He offered, where above, a covering of fundatum prasinum. Nay also another covering of stauracum with a periclysis of olovera, and a covering of blattin with a periclysis of fundatum. He made also in the little chest at the body of the now said Virgin a covering of quadrapulum with a periclysis: moreover also another covering of stauracum with a periclysis of olovera. In the now said church he made Tyrian curtains with a periclysis of blattin byzantea twenty-five in number: likewise prasine curtains with a periclysis of olovera, four in number. He offered where above alythine curtains with a periclysis of blattin three in number: and likewise small curtains of fundatum with a periclysis of blattin two in number: likewise Tyrian curtains with a periclysis of fundatum two. This venerable and excellent Pontiff made through the arches of the now said church curtains of fundatum twelve in number, and of quadrapulum fourteen. He made also in the arch of the Presbytery small curtains with a periclysis of blattin byzantea twelve in number. This venerable prelate protected by God made in the entrance of that same church a greater hanging, of quadrapulum and stauracum most beautifully adorned.

ANNOTATIONS.

Where this is read added with the inscription:

This Church, the first Paschal renewing from the bottom by the zeal of faith, while he seeks the sacred bodies, Raises the venerable body of the kindly Martyr Cecilia found, burying it in this marble. Lucius, Urban the Pontiffs are joined to her. And you witnesses of God, Tiburtius, Valerian, Maximus, with the said ones you hold worthy fellowship. These excellent Patrons Rome devoutly worships.

p. Oloverus seems to be said like Holosericus below, from which however it is distinguished at num. 12 where are called Holosericous curtains with a periclysis of olovera.

q. Psillia better perhaps Psyllia, that there be understood a purple, elegantly sprinkled with certain small spots, which spots have the name from the form of fleas, which to the Greeks are ψύλλοι, whence ψύλλιον the flea-bane herb: unless you prefer to compare that ornament to the leaves of this herb.

r. Prasinus, the same as green.

CHAPTER III.

Various Churches adorned especially S. Maria Maggiore.

[11] He restores the monastery of SS. Sergius and Bacchus. That same often-named Pontiff also bearing care with a sufficiently vigilant mind over the monasteries built round about, and inquiring what they had, that pious Pontiff himself found the monastery of S. Sergius and Bacchus, set behind the form of the aqueduct of the Lateran patriarchate, desolate of all things; so that the congregation of handmaids of God, which was there, by the want of poverty could chant no praises to the almighty Lord and his Saints. By which inquiry the venerable Pastor moved to piety, brought it about that the handmaids of God could be well and religiously: and in it he resolved a convention of monks to be gathered, enriching that same monastery with many faculties: and in households, estates, vineyards, houses, urban or rustic places he amply and sufficiently multiplied: so that that Congregation residing there, all necessity being set aside, to God alone and his Saints might chant praises and hymns night and day modulating, in the venerable church of the Savior our Lord Jesus Christ, situated near the Lateran.

[12] Moreover in the oratory of the most blessed Martyrs Processus and Martinianus, he offers gifts in the oratory of SS. Processus and Martinianus: set below the church of B. Peter the Prince of the Apostles, which also he himself built, he offered an image of purest gold, having the face of the holy Mother of God, weighing ten pounds and four ounces. There also he made a covering of blattin byzantea having two tablets of chrysoclavum, with the face of B. Peter, and of the holy Martyrs Processus and Martinianus, and a periclysis of chrysoclavum of wondrous beauty decorated. There also he offered a holosericous covering, having in the midst a tablet of chrysoclavum, with the face of the Lordly resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and a periclysis of blattin byzantea most beautifully embellished. But indeed to those same Saints holosericous curtains with a periclysis of quadrapulum, and blattin byzantea he offered nine in number. Where also above he made small curtains of Tyrian with a periclysis of fundatum six in number; a thurible of gilded silver wondrously, weighing one pound. But in the oratory of the most blessed Martyrs Sixtus and Fabianus the now named Pontiff made three gabathae of silver, weighing five pounds and six ounces. Before the image also of that oratory he made a curtain of chrysoclavum wondrously decorated. Over their venerable altar he made a covering of alythinum, having in the midst a Cross of blattin byzantea, and a periclysis likewise of blattin. In a similar manner in the now said oratory the often-aforesaid Pontiff offered a holosericous covering, having in the midst two Crosses of chrysoclavum, and a periclysis of stauracum adorned with diverse pearls. There also he made another covering of fundatum, having in the midst a Cross of blattin. He made also for the ornament of the aforesaid oratory curtains of alythinum, with a periclysis of blattin byzantea, four in number: and likewise holosericous curtains with a periclysis of quadrapulum, and of olovera four in number.

[13] This most benign Prelate made in the church of the blessed Martyrs Cosmas and Damian on the sacred way a covering of Tyrian, in the church of SS. Cosmas and Damian, having in the midst a tablet of chrysoclavum with the face of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the blessed Martyrs Cosmas and Damian, with three other brothers, with a Cross of woven gold, and a periclysis of olovera most beautifully embellished and decorated. Over their holy altar finally he offered a coverlet of Tyrian, wondrously decorated: nay indeed before the vestibule of that altar he made Tyrian curtains, with a periclysis of blattin byzantea, three in number.

[14] The venerable Pontiff also made in the monastery of the Savior our Lord Jesus Christ, of S. Salvator in the Reatine dominion, situated in the territory of Rieti, a covering of chrysoclavum with the history, how that same our Lord Jesus Christ with the Archangels and Apostles coruscates in heaven, of wondrous beauty adorned with diverse pearls. Likewise in the now said monastery, for the ornament of the sacred altar, he offered another covering of fundatum, having Crosses of blattin byzantea, and a periclysis of chrysoclavum wondrously adorned. In a like manner in the church of B. Mennas the martyr, he made a covering of quadrapulum with a periclysis of blattin byzantea.

[15] This most holy and coangelic Prelate offered in the church of blessed Peter the Apostle at Centumcellae a chalice and paten of gilded silver, of S. Peter at Centumcellae, weighing four pounds and three ounces. Indeed also in the church of blessed Peter the Apostle, his patron, he made a Gospel with blattin of silver, of S. Stephen, weighing eight pounds and eight ounces. The most benign Prelate also made in the monastery of B. Stephen the Protomartyr at S. Peter four white holosericous coverings, having in the midst a Cross of woven gold, with diverse pearls and a periclysis of blattin wondrously decorated. Likewise, where above, the aforenamed Pontiff offered a covering of fundatum, having in the midst a Cross woven of gold and a periclysis of chrysoclavum. The often-aforesaid Prelate finally made in the now said monastery a covering of fundatum, having in the midst a tablet of chrysoclavum, with the face of the holy Mother of God, and of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and a periclysis of blattin. He offered there himself two coverings of stauracum, having in the midst Crosses of chrysoclavum, and a periclysis of blattin. He made also for the ornament of that oratory a greater curtain of quadrapulum, having in the midst three Crosses woven of gold, and a periclysis of blattin. In the Diaconia of B. the Archangel the now said Pontiff offered a covering of blattin byzantea, having in the midst a Cross of chrysoclavum, of S. Michael, and a periclysis of chrysoclavum most beautifully embellished.

[16] Indeed also in the church of B. Cecilia the Martyr he made a concha of silver, where also he placed the precious head of that same Virgin, weighing eight pounds and a half. In a similar manner also in the church of B. Quiriacus the martyr in the Baths the aforesaid Prelate offered curtains of fundatum eight in number. This now named Pontiff supported by God made in the oratory of the Holy Archangel, of S. Quiriacus which formerly his predecessor Lord Leo the Pope established and built, a white holosericous covering, having in the midst a tablet of chrysoclavum, with the history of the Lordly Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and a periclysis of chrysoclavum wondrously decorated. Likewise there he offered another covering of fundatum, with a periclysis of blattin byzantea. The now said Pontiff made also in the aforesaid oratory another covering, of quadrapulum sewn round, with the history of the Mother of God most beautifully embellished and decorated.

[17] Moreover that same supreme and orthodox Pontiff, struck by divine inspiration, In the Church of S. Maria Maggiore at the Manger the church of the holy and undefiled Virgin Mary our Lady at the Manger, seeing it formerly built in such a manner, that behind the seat of the Pontiff women standing for the sacred solemnities of the Masses, seemed to assist near beside the Pontiff; so that if the Pontiff wished to speak anything with those assisting him, by the very near frequenting of the women it by no means was permitted him without their intervention; seeing a large place to be there, by which he could thence change the seat, zeal of work being given he began unceasingly to act, to set up higher the Seat set lower, that there more familiarly he might pour out prayers to the Lord, he raises the seat higher: whereby he could modestly avoid the company of the peoples. Finally a Seat better than it had been before, decorated with most beautiful marbles he built, and on every side ascents, by which he might go to it, he constructed; and raising the pavement of the altar, with most precious marbles he paved it. He erected indeed six there, before the Confession of the sacred altar, columns of purple color, over which he placed also a beam of white marble, and renders it more honorable with most beautiful ornaments: joining those namely with purple marbles on the right and left, and adorning them with engravings, sufficiently commodiously he decorated. The Presbytery also of that church with diverse marbles, than it had been long before, into the better he repaired. The propitiatory indeed of the sacred altar, or the Confession, within and without with its little folds of purest gold wondrously he decorated, weighing one hundred seventy-four pounds and six ounces. Likewise the altar of that basilica of silver plates with diverse histories most beautifully he embellished and gilded, weighing three hundred eighty-five pounds. The most benign and excellent Prelate also offered there gabathae of purest gold with diverse gems six in number, weighing twenty pounds and six ounces. And he established this, that always by days and nights before the most sacred altar lamps should burn. This man supported by divine inspiration offered in the now said basilica arches of silver eight in number with sixteen columns, weighing together two hundred eighteen pounds and eight ounces. He made also before the vestibule of the altar greater rugae of silver, weighing seventy-eight pounds. He offered also canthara, where above, of silver six in number, weighing together sixty pounds and a half. In a like manner also through the greater arches of the often-aforesaid church he made greater chalices of silver, forty-two in number, which all together weigh two hundred eighty-one pounds. The venerable Prelate indeed, for the love of that same Virgin our Lady, offered there crowns of silver four in number, weighing sixty-two pounds and a half and three ounces. Likewise, where above, two baskets of silver, weighing thirteen pounds. He made also there an image of gilded silver, with the face of the blessed Mother of God Mary, weighing seventeen pounds and three ounces. The servant also of Christ the almighty Lord offered in the most sacred altar of the often-aforesaid basilica two coverings of chrysoclavum, having the history of the Lordly nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, with a periclysis, adorned with diverse gems and pearls wondrously decorated.

[18] he adds precious coverings He offered also there himself another covering of chrysoclavum, having the history, how our Lord Jesus Christ was baptized by John in the Jordan, with a periclysis of chrysoclavum wondrously adorned. Likewise, where above, he embellished a covering of chrysoclavum, having the history of the Lordly Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, with a periclysis of chrysoclavum, adorned with diverse pearls. The most blessed and venerable aforenamed Pontiff, led by divine love, made there in the now aforesaid altar a covering likewise of chrysoclavum, having the history, how the blessed Mother of God Mary was assumed in body, with a periclysis of chrysoclavum, with diverse pearls embellished and decorated. For the most benign Prelate made there himself another covering of chrysoclavum, having the history of the Lordly Ascension of Christ our Lord duly decorated. Likewise, where above, for the love of that same Virgin he built another covering of chrysoclavum, having the history, how the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles, adorned with diverse pearls and decorated. Nay there another he fortified a covering of chrysoclavum, with the history of the Palms modestly embellished and decorated. And also, where above, another the now named Pontiff embellished a covering of olovera, with a periclysis of fundatum. Likewise also for the daily days

he offered two coverings of fundatum, with a periclysis of quadrapulum most beautifully adorned.

[19] more curtains This most holy Prelate himself struck by divine inspiration made, through the greater arches of the now aforesaid basilica, curtains of fundatum fourteen, and of quadrapulum fourteen, likewise also of imizilum fourteen. The servant of our Lord Jesus Christ for the love of that same our Lady through the arches of the Presbytery of the now said church made curtains of chrysoclavum, having the history of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the nativity or assumption of that same undefiled Virgin twenty-six in number. Likewise also through those same arches he offered curtains of quadrapulum, with diverse histories sewn round, twenty-four in number. For the servant of Christ the almighty offered up in the aspect of the apse an Alexandrian cloth, wondrously decorated. He offered also on the greater beam of that basilica a greater curtain of fundatum, having seven beams of chrysoclavum, and a periclysis of blattin byzantea. He made also for the ornament of that basilica on that same beam curtains of quadrapulum six in number, and of imizilum curtains four in number. That same Pontiff also made near the vestibule of the altar in the apse curtains of quadrapulum twelve in number: there of blattin curtains six in number. and hangings: The venerable Prelate also made in the entrance of the now said basilica a greater Alexandrian hanging, with diverse histories becomingly decorated. In a similar manner also for the daily days another there he offered an Alexandrian hanging, wondrously adorned. The most benign and excellent Pontiff offered in the aforenamed basilica white holosericous curtains on the greater beam, with a periclysis of fundatum six in number: four other curtains of white blattin byzantea there he set wondrously. Likewise in the apse of that basilica he placed white curtains, with a periclysis of fundatum, six in number. And because that same thrice most blessed Pastor so great care and so great vigilance toward the state of the holy churches of God frequently bestowed; also the altar of the manger of the now said basilica or the venerable confession on this side and that of purest gold with diverse histories wondrously he embellished and decorated, weighing one hundred thirty-four pounds and four ounces. Likewise of gilded silver with various histories there… ten weighing two hundred fifty-four pounds and four ounces. Likewise there the aforesaid Pontiff offered gabathae of purest gold, with diverse gems, three in number, weighing eight pounds and ten ounces. Moreover also curtains of alythinum with a periclysis of blattin byzantea there he placed.

[20] other gifts he confers on various Churches This sacred Bishop, for the exceeding love of his heart, made in the church of B. Cecilia a covering of chrysoclavum, having the history of the Lordly Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ wondrously depicted and adorned. He indeed protected by God the venerable and excellent Pontiff made the propitiatory of the sacred altar of B. Peter the Prince of the Apostles, where his most sacred body rests, spanoclystum of yellow gold, with diverse histories depicted, and wondrously decorated, weighing two hundred pounds. Likewise in the now said church, for the love of that same Apostle of God his patron, he offered chrysoclavous curtains through the arches of the Presbytery, having the history of the Lordly passion and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, forty-six in number. Likewise also in the church of the blessed Martyrs Cosmas and Damian on the sacred way he made a holosericous covering, most beautifully embellished and decorated. The most benign Prelate also made in the basilica of the blessed Mother of God ever Virgin Mary our Lady at the Manger, gabathae of gold with diverse gems adorned two in number, weighing six pounds. Likewise there he offered an Apostolic gabatha, of purest gold, weighing five pounds. Likewise, where above, he made fara-canthara of silver eight in number, weighing together eighty-two pounds. For the love also of that same our Lady he offered in the now said basilica four columns and one arch weighing together sixty pounds. The often-named Pontiff indeed made in the venerable altar of that church a white covering, having in the midst a Cross of chrysoclavum, with diverse gems sewn round, and adorned with beauty; another also there adding a covering of blattin byzantea, in a similar manner with a Cross of chrysoclavum, with diverse stones most honestly decorated. He made also for the ornament of the aforesaid church curtains of chrysoclavum through the arches of the Presbytery, having the history of the Lordly Passion, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Nay also on the greater beam of the often-said church he offered other curtains with a periclysis of quadrapulum six in number. Likewise on the beams of that basilica he made curtains of fundatum seven in number. and in other places, He offered also holosericous curtains round about the altar of the now said church, having a periclysis of quadrapulum four in number. The venerable Prelate also made in the church of the blessed Mother of God, which they call Dominica, rugae of silver, weighing sixty-six pounds. He made also in the church of the blessed Mother of God Mary our Lady, situated in the Sabines in the episcopal see, a covering of fundatum with a periclysis of blattin byzantea.

[21] he is buried in S. Peter's. This man finally by divine vocation died. But he was buried in the church of blessed Peter the Apostle. He made moreover two ordinations, one indeed in the month of December, and another in the month of March. Presbyters… Deacons six, Bishops through diverse places in number… And his Episcopate ceased four days, in the month of June in the 11th Indiction.

ANNOTATIONS.