Vigilius
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‘Two for the price of one’: Catherine II Before the Mirror by Vigilius Erichsen, 1762-64.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2012
In the sixth, as we have just seen, the Bishops of Africa, Illyria, and Dalmatia, all of the West, separate Pope Vigilius from their communion, and the former afterwards solemnly excommunicate him.
From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
Pope Vigilius escaped at last to die at Syracuse on his return to Rome worn out with the “contradiction of sinners” which he had experienced.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.
The ingenuity of Eutychius, till then an obscure man, was rewarded with the patriarchate of Constantinople, and Vigilius was compelled, by means not the most gentle, to subscribe to the anathema.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
The argument was irrefragable, and the anathema was pronounced in spite of the protests of Pope Vigilius, who stubbornly refused to be convinced.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
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