. In the days of the councils a sketch of the life and times of Baldassare Cossa [afterward Pope John the Twenty-third]. was he elected than he ratified his former vow and exhortedhis cardinals to work with him for the peace of the wrote to the Pope and cardinals at Avignon; he sentforth an encyclical apprising the whole world of his abdication of a legitimate Pope might, he admitted, beattended with inconvenience, but this was nothing comparedwith the evil of the prolongation of the Schism. He hadascended the apostolic seat not without apprehension, he woulddescend re
. In the days of the councils a sketch of the life and times of Baldassare Cossa [afterward Pope John the Twenty-third]. was he elected than he ratified his former vow and exhortedhis cardinals to work with him for the peace of the wrote to the Pope and cardinals at Avignon; he sentforth an encyclical apprising the whole world of his abdication of a legitimate Pope might, he admitted, beattended with inconvenience, but this was nothing comparedwith the evil of the prolongation of the Schism. He hadascended the apostolic seat not without apprehension, he woulddescend readily and joyfully; far from weighing on him, theobligation which he had contracted charmed him, for he wasnow so old that he had no further hopes in this world. Suchwas the old mans protestation, and it was truthful when firstuttered. Great and universal was the joy at his accession andhis profession ; he was hailed as an angel of light.^ Gersonpreached an eloquent sermon rendering thanks to the Almighty;the bells rang out everywhere for the approaching reunion of1 Mur. iii. 837. ^ Erler, 156. ^ De Schismate, rori, Gkkcoky thk
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