l equinox. St. Victor
directs the Eastern churches, for the sake of uniformity, to conform to
the practice of the West, and his instructions are universally followed.

St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, was martyred in 258.

From his appeals to Pope St. Cornelius and to Pope St. Stephen, especially
on the subject of baptism, from his writings and correspondence, as well
as from the whole tenor of his administration, it is quite evident that
Cyprian, as well as the African Episcopate, upheld the supremacy of the
Bishop of Rome.

Dionysius, Bishop of Rome, about the middle of the third century, having
heard that the Patriarch of Alexandria erred on some points of faith,
demands an explanation of the suspected Prelate, who, in obedience to his
superior, promptly vindicates his own orthodoxy.

St. Athanasius, the great patriarch of Alexandria, appeals in the fourth
century to Pope Julius I. from an unjust decision rendered against him by
the Oriental Bishops, and the Pope(168) reverses the sentence of the
Eastern Council.

St. Basil, Archbishop of Caesarea, in the same century has recourse in his
afflictions to the protection of Pope Damasus.

St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople, appeals in the beginning
of the fifth century to Pope Innocent I. for a redress of grievances
inflicted on him by several Eastern Prelates, and by the Empress Eudoxia
of Constantinople.

St. Cyril appeals to Pope Celestine against Nestorius; Nestorius, also,
appeals to the same Pontiff, who takes the side of Cyril.

In a Synod held in 444, St. Hilary, Archbishop of Arles, in Gaul, deposed
Celidonius, Bishop of Besancon, on the ground of an alleged canonical
impediment to his consecration. The Bishop appealed to the Holy See, and
both he and the Metropolitan personally repaired to Rome, to submit their
cause to the judgment of Pope Leo the Great. After a careful
investigation, the Pontiff declared the sentence of the Synod invalid,
revoked the censure, and restored the deposed Prelate to his See.

The same Pontiff also rebuked Hilary for having irregularly deposed
Projectus from his See.

The judicial authority of the Pope is emphasized from the circumstance
that Hilary was not an arrogant or a rebellious churchman, but an edifying
and a zealous Prelate. He is revered by the whole Church as a canonized
Saint, and after his death, Leo refers to him as Hilary of _happy memory_.

Theodoret, the illustrious historian and Bishop of