History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . church the most important of all the Chris-tian churches ? On what grounds did the bishop of Rome claim tobe the head of the whole Church ? Did the Christians in the easternportion of the Roman Empire accept the bishop of Rome as theirhead? Why did the popes become influential in the governing notonly of Rome but of Italy ? Tell what you can of Gregory the Great. Note. The Roman Emperor Hadrian (§ 398) built a great circular tomb at Rome,on the west bank of the Tiber, for himself and his successors. It was two
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . church the most important of all the Chris-tian churches ? On what grounds did the bishop of Rome claim tobe the head of the whole Church ? Did the Christians in the easternportion of the Roman Empire accept the bishop of Rome as theirhead? Why did the popes become influential in the governing notonly of Rome but of Italy ? Tell what you can of Gregory the Great. Note. The Roman Emperor Hadrian (§ 398) built a great circular tomb at Rome,on the west bank of the Tiber, for himself and his successors. It was two hundred andforty feet across, perhaps one hundred and sixty-five feet high, covered with marble andadorned with statues. When Rome was besieged by the Germans in 537 the inhabi-tants used the tomb for a fortress and threw down the statues on the heads of the bar-barians. When Gregory the Great prayed that Rome be delivered from a terriblepestilence he saw the archangel Michael sheathing his sword over Hadrians tomb; andsince then it has been called the Castle of the Holy
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