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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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f the church, a vinculis S. Petri, was in use in the sixth,century. Up to the fourth century we have nothing reliable to fall back upon when!discussing this relic. Eudoxias legendary gift of the fetters was thus judged by the:Congregation appointed by Benedict XIV. for emending the Breviary : Quae in breviarifkextant, historiam exhibent, quae criticis pene omnibus non probatur. The Congregationdecided to suppress the lessons IV.-VI. of the Festival of St. Peter ad Vincida on August iJSee extracts from their Acts in the Analecta iuris pontificii, 24 (1885), 913. We,have treated the whole matter compendiously in the Civiltd catt., 1898, III., p. 206-221. 2 G. Gatti, Caput Africae, in Annali delP Instituto, 1882, p. 191 ff. no. i55) THE ARCH OF CONSTANTINE 221 Doubtless the arch in honour of the Christian EmperorConstantine (111. 48) would then have been pointed out as oneof the greatest trophies of Christianity. The inscription speaksof the Emperors victory over the tyrant and his whole
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111. 48.—Triumphal Arch of Constantine., Reconstruction.1 faction. indicating thus the overthrow of the heathen Maxentiusat the Milvian Bridge, that great event which brought theEmperor to Rome and gave Christian Rome for all time thepredominance over her heathen rival. In the aforesaid inscrip-tion the Roman Senate alludes to the religious question with 1 From Baumeister, Denkmaler des klass. Alterthums, PI. 82. The view is of theiront facing the Palatine. The sculpture shown in 111. 25 is still intact, and stands overthe right entrance of that side of the arch which faces the Coliseum. 222 ROME AND THE POPES (no. iS6 great caution and reserve, merely stating that Constantine freedRome from the yoke of the tyrant through Divine guidance(instinctu divinitatis)) At the time of its dedication in 315 suchan expression might have been used even by Pagans, so thatit can certainly not be taken as a profession of Christianity. Itis far more probable that the inscription was so framed as to

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