. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. ,after their return from Grado, — a place in the adja-cent lagoons, where they and many of their flock hadfound asylum during the ravages of the Huns. TheArchbishop was Patriarch of Friuli, Istria, and Dal-matia, and when he departed from Grado, had leftthere incharge a local bishop, whose see was soonrapidly increased by the arrival of more the coming of the Lombards with their Arianfaith, it was embraced by the Patriarch of Aquileia,^along with all his subject bishops, excepting Gradoalone; Elias, Bishop of Grado, thereupon s
. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. ,after their return from Grado, — a place in the adja-cent lagoons, where they and many of their flock hadfound asylum during the ravages of the Huns. TheArchbishop was Patriarch of Friuli, Istria, and Dal-matia, and when he departed from Grado, had leftthere incharge a local bishop, whose see was soonrapidly increased by the arrival of more the coming of the Lombards with their Arianfaith, it was embraced by the Patriarch of Aquileia,^along with all his subject bishops, excepting Gradoalone; Elias, Bishop of Grado, thereupon seized theopportunity to obtain from Pope Pelagius II in 579 alaw making him and his successors the Patriarchs ofthe Lagoons and Istria. Such was the foundation ofthe Metropolitan See of Venice; which grew in powerconstantly with the growth of the island towns, andprovoked the envious hatred of Cividale. ^ Gibbon, Decline and Fall, vol. iv. 2 This was the primates customary title, and continued to be so afterthe removal to Cividale, and to CIYIDALE. SAX PELTRUDIS. EARLY LOMBARD SCULFTURES. UDINE AND CIVIDALE 275 For six hundred years the reverend Patriarchs ofAquileia, not satisfied with their sway upon the main-land, — which extended to the Mincio in the west, —never ceased their efforts to recover the lost territoryof Istria and the Lagoons; and the history of Friulibecame in part a series of wars waged by one holy pre-late against the other. Several times the hot attacksupon Grado by the Friulans, led by their Patriarch,succeeded in taking the city and expelling its churchlyruler; but at last Venice took a hand in favor of thelatter, after one of these expulsions, effected with theaid of the Emperor Frederick. She attacked Aqui-leia with her war-fleet, and brought its Patriarch inchains to the Doges palace. Thereafter his success-ors were obliged for many generations to send to theRepublic a yearly, ironical tribute of twelve pigs. The result of these centuries
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