History of the Christian Church From Its Origin to the Present Time
History of the Christian Church From Its Origin to the Present Time
Wm M William Maxwell Blackburn
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I. The Temporal Power of the Pope. Three stages of advance : I. The Church of Rome came to possess certain lands in Italy, Sicily, and else- where, but not by the pretended "donation of Constantine. " Gregory I claimed as the special "Patrimony of St. Peter, " a duchy extending from Viterbo to Naples. In the Italian wars the Greeks offered him, for military services, all the lands which he won from the Lombards. 2. The donations of certain cities by Pipin and Charlemagne. 3. "The states of the ...Church, " as designated on our maps, until 1870, when Victor Immanuel wrested them from Pius IX. They long furnished an army for the pope's defense. II. The Decretals, "one of the mightiest engines in the triumphs of the papacy. " i. The genuine (probably). They were decrees, letters, and replies to questions and appeals, sent forth by the bishops of Rome. A col- lection or digest of them was made about 560, by Dionysius Exiguus, the little wise monk who arranged our chronology for us on Christian principles.
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