oner] puts in the
forefront the name of 'Gregorius Praesul,' thereupon some people imagine
that the work was composed by the Blessed Gregory, Pope of Rome and
illustrious doctor."

He is here defending the chant of Lyons against the ultramontane efforts
of Amalarius to introduce the Roman ways. He goes on to try to prove that
the Antiphoner defended by Amalarius cannot be St. Gregory's, because he
had forbidden the use of words not taken directly from Scripture.

VI.--Amalarius of Metz (815-835) is undoubtedly the person who played the
foremost part in the fusion of the Gallican element with the rest of the
Gregorian or Gelasian Liturgy, from which combination has come in
substance the Roman Liturgy in use to-day. He had travelled much, and had
been at Rome. He is a weighty authority in the present question. The
following extracts are taken from a supplementary chapter of his _De
Divinis Officiis_, published by Mabillon, in his _Vetera Analecta_
(_Paris_, 1723). He is speaking of the Pope Gregory who is the author of
the Dialogues, and who sent St. Augustine into England.

"Amongst the monks who have been raised to the Supreme Pontificate can
be cited Denys, and Gregory of incomparable memory. Now Gregory,
amongst many other things by which he furthered the advantage of the
Church, had the glory of being the chief organizer of the Office for
clerical use." (_p._ 93.)

"In the time of St. Bennet the whole order of psalmody had not yet been
fixed with precision in the Psalter and the Antiphoner: it was the
incomparable Pope Gregory of holy memory, himself a zealous observer of
the rule of St. Bennet and an imitator of his monastic perfection, who
afterwards regulated the arrangement of it under the direction of the
Holy Spirit." (_pp._ 93-4.)

"Far from blaming those who preserve the Gregorian usage, they should
rather praise them." (_p._ 94.)

"In the authentic model of St. Gregory, the _Alleluia_ and the _Gloria_
are suppressed at the Mass for Innocents' Day, in order to express the
grief of the mothers or of the Church." (_p._ 96.)

Amalarius was commissioned by Louis the Debonair to procure at Rome a
copy of the Antiphoner to serve as a model for an uniform use in place of
the varying uses then to be found. The Pope in answer to his request
replied, "I have no Antiphoner that I can send to my son and lord the
Emperor. Those which we had, were taken to France by Wala, Abbot