. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. ed that he had failed in his duty, whereupon the council, with hisconsent, condemned afresh the ecclesiastical investitures conferred by thecivil power. Another council, held in France, excommunicated the emperor,who succeeded in taking Rome. Pascal being dead, Gelasius II. had to takerefuge at Cluny, and Henry V. appointed an anti-pope, who assumed the titleof Gregory VIII. At the death of Gelasius II., the cardinals who had followed him intoFrance elected as his successor a Frenchman—Calixtus II., to whomb
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. ed that he had failed in his duty, whereupon the council, with hisconsent, condemned afresh the ecclesiastical investitures conferred by thecivil power. Another council, held in France, excommunicated the emperor,who succeeded in taking Rome. Pascal being dead, Gelasius II. had to takerefuge at Cluny, and Henry V. appointed an anti-pope, who assumed the titleof Gregory VIII. At the death of Gelasius II., the cardinals who had followed him intoFrance elected as his successor a Frenchman—Calixtus II., to whombelongs the renown of having put an end to the quarrel as to emperor, finding that the irritation of the Germans, weary of hisdespotism, was growing perilous to his throne, convoked a diet at Wurtz-burg, when it was decided by him and the princes of the empire thatambassadors should be sent to negotiate with the pope, who had returned toRome amidst the acclamations of the inhabitants. According to the Concordat drawn up and adopted by Henry V. at the 264 THE 7 : & Fig. 212.—Public and Solemn Functions of the Sovereign-Pontiff.—From a lioman Engraving of the Seventeenth Century. 1. Solemn mass celebrated in St. Peters by the Pope.—2. Celebration of the sacred services in whichthe Pope takes part, especially those of the Sundays in Advent and Lent.—3. Coronation ofthe Sovereign-Pontiff at St. John of Latcran.—4. The newly-elected Pope seated upon thealtar of the Clementine Chapel and receiving the homage of the cardinals.—5. Solemn benedic-tion which the Pope gives to the people.—6. Tribute of the white horse, formerly paid to thePope each year, on St. Peters day by the King of Naples in token of his vassalship.— cavalcade of the Pope upon his first journey from St. Peters to the Lateran Church.—8. Public consistory for the reception of the ambassadors.—9. The Pope carrying the HolySacrament in the procession of the Fetc-Dieu.
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