A General History of the Christian Church From the Fall of the Western Empire T
A General History of the Christian Church From the Fall of the Western Empire T
Priestley Joseph
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XV If. fovereignty of all the Hates to himfelf and his heirs. Afterwards the pope joined Adelbert the fon of Berenger; but flying from Rome on the ap- proach of Otho, and being accufed of many crimelS in a council held in a. D. 963, he was depofed, and Leo VIII chofen in his place. John's party prevailing again, he depofed Leo, who fled to the emperor ; and to fatiate his re- venge John ordered the right hand of another John, a cardinal deacon and a'partifan of Leo, to be cut ofF, and alfo the ...tongue, nofe, and two fingers of Azon his chief fecretary. Then, in a council held in Rome, Leo was declared to be an ufurper, and John, after depofing all who had been ordained by him, reordained them. John furvived this council only three months. For being in compa- ny with a common proflitute without the gates of Rome, he received fo violent a blow on the tem- ples, that he died in eight days, and, as the hiflo- rian fays, without receiving the viaticum. He was fucceeded by Benedift V. But the people of Rome, who oppofed the entrance of Otho, be- ing prefled by famine, gave up the pope; and Leo VIII, who had been depofed by John, was reinftated ; and in another council Benedi6l waa degraded and banifhed.
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