. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . etting a seal to the earnestness of his protest. Whether the games ended with the removal of his mangledbody is not mentioned. Doubtless when calm succeeded frenzy,many were moved with compassion for the strangers fate. Enquiryrevealed that the murdered monk had quitted his Eastern homeand pilgrimed to Rome on purpose to put a stop to gladiatorialencounters. It is believed that he was named Telemachus, andit was his firm hope that if this mad cruelty could be made to 1 Words of the inscription on the Emperors statue ; see Eusebius, Vita Cons
. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . etting a seal to the earnestness of his protest. Whether the games ended with the removal of his mangledbody is not mentioned. Doubtless when calm succeeded frenzy,many were moved with compassion for the strangers fate. Enquiryrevealed that the murdered monk had quitted his Eastern homeand pilgrimed to Rome on purpose to put a stop to gladiatorialencounters. It is believed that he was named Telemachus, andit was his firm hope that if this mad cruelty could be made to 1 Words of the inscription on the Emperors statue ; see Eusebius, Vita Const., I., 40. 42 ROME AND THE POPES [No. 24 cease within the sacred walls of Rome, it would end all over theworld. His object was attained, for the Emperor, deeply movedby the act of heroism, sent forth a stern decree, forbidding for alltime these sports in This prohibition seems to have proved quite effectual; first atRome, and shortly after all over the Empire, this form of publicrejoicing appears to have stopped entirely. Theodoret, writing. 111. 7.—Section of the as a contemporary of Telemachuss intervention, further tells usthat at the Emperors instigation, the monk or hermit was placedon the list of saints. Thus the sacrifice of a single martyrs lifesufficed to terminate the many human hecatombs of the 1 Account by Theodoret, who wrote about 450, Hist. ecci.,V., c. 26, ed. L. Schultze,p. 1067. Acta SS., I Januar., 1, 31, Analecta Bollandiana, 1897, p. 252, where theidentity of the arddiov mentioned by Theodoret with the Coliseum is unjustifiablyquestioned. TiLLEMONT (Empereurs, Honore, art. 20, p. 533 ff.) observes, with referenceto a similar story about a St. Almachius (cp. Martyrol. Rom., I Januar., with notes byBaronius, p. 1, 4), and quite rightly : // est difficile de ne pas reconnaltre que tout ceqrion dit de S. Almaque est ou faux ou tres altereP 2 The general correctness of this reconstruction may be judged from the northernand bette
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