of their votaries, because this means could not prevent them from
bowing to them.

56 It is related that the women were the most zealous in defending the
images, and that an officer of the emperor, who was demolishing a
statue of Christ placed at the entrance of the imperial palace, was
murdered by them.

57 Gibbon and some other writers think that Constantine survived for
some time the loss of his eyes, but I have followed in the text the
general opinion on this event.

58 Irene was a native of Athens.

59 Vol. ix. p. 429, _et seq._

60 Extracts from the works of this celebrated monk, and his life,
_apud_ Basnage _Histoire de l'Eglise_, p. 1375.

61 Theodora, on being appointed by her husband regent during the
minority of her son, was obliged to swear that she would not restore
the _idols_. The Jesuit Maimbourg, who wrote a history of the
iconoclasts, maintains that, in restoring the worship of images, she
did not commit a perjury, because _she swore that_ she would not
restore the _idols_, but not _images_, which are not idols.

62 I may add, as well as the Russo-Greek Church, which, as I shall have
an opportunity to show afterwards, is no less opposed to
Protestantism than her rival, the Church of Rome.

63 Thus, for instance, the well-known work of the celebrated patriarch
Photius, written in the ninth century, contains extracts from and
notices of many works which have never reached us.

64 "Edinburgh Review," July, 1841, p. 17.

65 According to the author of "Hierurgia," Cassianus suffered martyrdom
under the reign of Julian the Apostate; we know, however, from
history, that no persecution of Christians had taken place under
that emperor. Cassianus' body is still preserved at Imola, but
according to Collin de Plancy he has besides a head at Toulouse.

66 "Hierurgia," by D. Rock, D.D., second edition, p. 377, _et seq._

67 Prudentius was known as a man of great learning, and had filled some
important offices of the state.

68 The title of this book is--"Opus illustrissimi Caroli Magni, nutu
Dei, Regis Francorum, Gallias, Germaniam, Italiamque sive harum
finitimas provincias, Domino opitulante, regentis, contra Synodum
quae in partibus Greciae, pro adorandis imaginibus, stolide sive
arroganter gesta est."

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