The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossaryIllustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents . Romish Scottish. Eastern. Different Forms of Priestly Tonsure, or Shaving Heads. I IIS,;iK. Consecral of an Abbot by Imposition of Hands chap, i.] POPERY ADVANCING.—A. D. 606—800. 139 An archbishop waiting to have his head shaved. The Pope encourages appeals to Rome. land, despatched Wigh
The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossaryIllustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents . Romish Scottish. Eastern. Different Forms of Priestly Tonsure, or Shaving Heads. I IIS,;iK. Consecral of an Abbot by Imposition of Hands chap, i.] POPERY ADVANCING.—A. D. 606—800. 139 An archbishop waiting to have his head shaved. The Pope encourages appeals to Rome. land, despatched Wighard, a newly elected archbishop of Canter-bury to receive his ordination from the hands of the Pope, with apresent to St. Peter, of several valuable articles of silver and , dying of the plague, which then raged at Rome, the Poperesolved to embrace the favorable opportunity of advancing hispower, by choosing an archbishop himself, instead of sending to thetwo kings, to request them, according to the previous custom, toelect a successor to Wighard. The Pope soon after nominated anEastern monk, named Theodore, and informed the two kings thathe would proceed to his consecration, and despatch him to EnglandNotwithstanding they were impatiently expecting his arrival, threemonths were permitted to elapse before his consecration, and whatdoes the reader suppose was the all-important
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