86

How the Pope, under these humiliations, spoke to Acacius
and to the emperor, 88

The Pope on the one side, Acacius on the other, represent
an absolute contradiction, 89

Eudoxius and Valens matched by Acacius and Zeno, 92

Death of Acacius, and estimate of him by three contemporaries, 93

Fravita, succeeding Acacius, seeks the Pope's recognition, 93

Letters of the emperor and Fravita to the Pope, and his
answers, 94

The position taken by Acacius not maintained by Zeno and
Fravita, 96

Nor by Euphemius, who succeeds Fravita, 96

Euphemius suspects and resists the new emperor Anastasius, 97

Condition of the Empire and the Church at the accession of
Pope Gelasius in 492, 98

The "libellus synodicus" on the emperor Anastasius, 100

With whom the four Popes--Gelasius, Anastasius, Symmachus,
and Hormisdas--have to deal, 101

Euphemius, writing to the Pope, acknowledges him to be
successor of St. Peter, 103

Gelasius replies to Euphemius, insisting on the repudiation
of Acacius, 104

Absolute obedience of the Illyrian bishops professed to the
Apostolic See, 105

Gelasius shows that the canons make the First See supreme
judge of all, 106

Says that the bishop of Constantinople holds no rank among
bishops, 107

Praises bishops who have resisted the wrongdoings of temporal
rulers, 108

The Holy See, in virtue of its Principate, confirms every
Council, 109

Gelasius in 494 defines to the emperor the domain of the
Two Powers, 110

And the subordination of the temporal ruler in spiritual things, 111

The words of Gelasius have become the law of the Churc