This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... The history of the Papal States, from their origin to the present day John Miley HISTORY OF THE PAPAL STATES. BOOK III. CHAPTER I. This memorable proceeding, which has left its impressions in effects the most lasting and beneficent on the face of the civilized world to the present day, was primarily ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... The history of the Papal States, from their origin to the present day John Miley HISTORY OF THE PAPAL STATES. BOOK III. CHAPTER I. This memorable proceeding, which has left its impressions in effects the most lasting and beneficent on the face of the civilized world to the present day, was primarily occasioned by an atrocious attack on the Pontiff, Saint Leo III, * as, in the third year of his reign, and, on St. George's day, he was proceeding from the Lateran to San Lorenzo in Lucina: the church where the procession was to form, in order to proceed thence to the station in the Velabrum--the valley between the Capitol and the Palatine--where stood the church of Saint George. The names and offices of the two leaders of the conspiracy are known to us. The exact scene of the atrocity itself, we also know. How the chief conspirators, Paschal and Campulus, presented themselves to the Pope, were benignly received with forgiveness and his blessing, notwithstanding * An. 799. the irregularity of their demeanour: with what Iscariot-like duplicity, they fawned on the object of their treason: the suddenness and fury with which, at a remote point, far away (more than a mile) from where the faithful were assembled in prayer, the assassins sprung, sword in hand, from their ambuscade; how the terror-stricken attendants--mostly acolytes and clergy, and all unarmed--were scattered: how, dragged to the ground by the archtraitors, the sacerdotal robes were torn off the person of the successor of the Apostle, his body covered with wounds and bruises; how, under cover of the night, for securer custody, they hurried their victim, after striving to tear out his tongue and his eyes, from the monastery of Saints Stephen and Sylveste
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