This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...mourned over the poverty which the gifts entailed. See Gibbon, 47th chapter, and also Neauder, vol. ii., p. 482. This hurt might easily happen, for the patriarch was impulsive and rough. By many of the clergy he was hated as a stranger put over them, and most of them joined the party who ascribed the greatest ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...mourned over the poverty which the gifts entailed. See Gibbon, 47th chapter, and also Neauder, vol. ii., p. 482. This hurt might easily happen, for the patriarch was impulsive and rough. By many of the clergy he was hated as a stranger put over them, and most of them joined the party who ascribed the greatest honor to the Virgin. The little story about Dalmatius is a curious picture of the times. Dalmatius was a monk who for forty-eight years had never left his cell. His reputation for sanctity was so great that the people resorted to his intercessions in every perplexity. Even the Emperor himself had repeatedly visited him to implore his aid. He was an almost omnipotent oracle in that generation. By Alexandrian influence he was won over to Cyril's side, who communicated with him by means of a letter concealed in a hollow reed borne as a staff by a pilgrim. Dalmatius denounced Nestorius as " an evil beast who had entered the city." He declared that an exigency had now arrived that summoned him to leave his cell. He put himself at the head of a procession of monks and abbots who marched through the streets bearing burning torches and chanting psalms. He demanded that the Emperor should give more heed to " six thousand bishops than to one godless man." He excited the whole city to a state of frenzied madness. All this encouraged Cyril to a more decisive step. Quarreling bishops in the East had often called for the help of the Pope at Rome, who was anxious then to extend and assure his power. Cyril represented to Celestine I., the reigning pontiff, that now was the favorable moment for him to intervene, and put himself at the head of the party contending for the highest views of the person of Christ. To this end he suggested that a general council...
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