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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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explanations of this stele (remarkable on account of the IXGTCZWXTwN) in his Principienfragen der christlichen Archdologie (1889), p. 68 fif. (againstSchultze, Achelis, and others). See ibid., PI. 1, No. 3, the photograph. 2 Kraus, I.e., p. 532. Armellini, I.e., p. 531. Cp. with illustrations in de Rossi,Bullett. archeol. crist., 1870, PI. 5, and in WiLPERT, Pri?icipie?ifragen, PI. 1. 3 Garrucci, Arte cristia?ia, 5, PI. 307, No. 1. Cp. Ficker, Altchristliche Dildwerkedes Lateralis, p. 60 fif. 4 De Rossi, Bullett. archeol. crist., 1890, p. 21. The discovery was made close by 1the Porta Angelica, since demolished. Cp. C. Erbes, Das Alter der Graber undKirchen des Paulus und Petrus in Rom, in Zeitschrift fur Kirchengesch., 7 (1884-1885), 1 fif., in which he seeks in vain to establish that no cemetery existed here before thefourth century. LiPSlUS (Apocryphe Apostelgeschichten^, 1, 403) nevertheless opinesthat Erbes has settled the non-existence of this cemetery before Constantines time.
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oqj 8 CD u fl a3 i-l CD 8 6 « 2 I & ^ o fe no.i85) ST. PETERS TOMB 283 sits our Saviour enthroned in Divine Majesty, handing to theChief of the Apostles the scroll of the Law : i.e. authority togovern His Church. Peter, a powerfully built figure with shortcurly hair and a round full beard, accepts the gift in his coveredhands, his attitude suggesting surprise and reverence.1 This representation on the Lateran sarcophagus, with Uranus under the feet of Christ, cannot fail to put us in mind of the words with which the earliest preserved catalogue of the Roman bishops I begins. Under the first name—that of Peter—allusion is made I to the fact that Christ forsook the earth to ascend above it into \ heaven. After the Lords Ascension, it says, blessed Peter ! took over the episcopacy, and a succession was established, as is described in the following list, with the names, the years, and the ! concomitant emperors. 2 After this glance round the immediate vicinity of PetersTomb and o

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