. The age of Hildebrand. , and the other leadersof the uprising against him, he absolved all zvho cer-tainly believed that he possessed tJie poiver of the apos-tolic prinees, Peter and Paul / His last words were, I have loved righteousness and hated he believe it? It is not for us to say. There isno delusion like moral delusion. If he was sincere,we can only pray to be delivered from the righteous-ness which Hildebrand loved. Gregory Rests at Salerno. 117 He died on the 25th of May, 1085, probably overseventy years of age. He had occupied the papalchair for twelve years and some m
. The age of Hildebrand. , and the other leadersof the uprising against him, he absolved all zvho cer-tainly believed that he possessed tJie poiver of the apos-tolic prinees, Peter and Paul / His last words were, I have loved righteousness and hated he believe it? It is not for us to say. There isno delusion like moral delusion. If he was sincere,we can only pray to be delivered from the righteous-ness which Hildebrand loved. Gregory Rests at Salerno. 117 He died on the 25th of May, 1085, probably overseventy years of age. He had occupied the papalchair for twelve years and some months. He wasburied at Salerno, in the church of St. Matthew, anda sumptuous chapel was erected over his tomb fourcenturies later. Rome has no memorial of him ex-cept a single inscription on a stone buried in the wallof a chapel in Santa Prudentiana.^ 1 Tempore Gregorii Septeni Praesulis AlmiPresbiter Eximius Praeclarus Vir BenedictusMoribus Ecclesiam Renovavit Funditus Istam. ... See Gregorovius, vol. iv., p. 246, CHAPTER XI. CHARACTER AND POLICY OF GREGORY YII. HE severest critic of Hildebrand is com-pelled to concede his greatness. He wasthe creator of the political Papacy of themiddle ages; the man who grasped theopportunity presented by the politicaldisintegration of Europe, and who strove to realize,through the church alone, that unity which thechurch and the empire together had accomplished,after a fashion, in former days. It has been justly-1said that the Gregorian ideas were not invented norfirst propounded by Hildebrand; that they hadbeen long before a part of mediaeval Christianity, in-terwoven with its most vital doctrines; but he wasthe first who dared to apply them to the world as hefound it.^ His was that rarest and grandest of gifts,an intellectual courage and power of imaginative be-lief which, when it has convinced itself of aught,accepts it fully with all its consequences and shrinksnot from acting at once upon it. ^ No one beforehim had so clearly per
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