Curiosities of Christian History Prior to the Reformation

CHAPTER XI.

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SOME BISHOPS, KINGS, POPES, AND INQUISITORS.

Unity of the Clergy, 326; Supremacy of Pope, 326; Election of Popes, 328; Dress of Cardinals, 328; The Degraded Bishop, 329; Emperor and the First Abdication, 330; Bishop Building Workhouse, 330; Bishops Striving for a Site, 331; How Bishops were Made, 331; Fifth-century Bishop, 332; Putting Down Soothsayers, 338; Bishop Releasing Prisoners, 334; The King of the Gauls, 334; Pope Getting Rid of Pestilence, 335; Choosing Archbishop, 335; Pope Gregory and the Emperor, 336; John the Almsgiver, 337; Giving a Bishop a Horse, 338; A Christian's Scruples, 339; A Model Churchman, 339; Why Pope's Foot Kissed, 340; Agobard of Lyons, 340; St. Swithin, 341; King Alfred, 341; King Alfred's Love of Reading, 342; Bishop at Head of Troops, 343; Two Scapegrace Popes, 344; The Ugliest Archbishop, 345; Bishop and Emperor's Jokes, 345; King Canute, 346; Peasant Rebuking Bishop, 347; St. Margaret of Scotland, 348; Death of William the Conqueror, 348; English King Marrying Nun, 350; Awaking Bishop for Mass, 351; Anselm, Archbishop, 351; Saracen King by Divine Right, 352; Archbishop Turstin, 353; King John and the Bishop, 354; St. Thomas à Becket, 355; Monk Describes Papal Interdict, 356; Pope Punishing Kings, 357; Candid Friend to Pope, 358; Excommunication of Emperor, 359; Emperor Retaliating on Pope, 360; Pope's Clerks Extorting Money, 360; Aerial Music at Bishop's Death, 362; Fool Posing Theologians, 362; Hermit for Pope, 363; Philip the Fair and the Pope, 364; Pope of Fourteenth Century, 365; Wicliff, the Reformer, 365; The Popes at Avignon, 366; The Rival Popes, 367; Three Popes at one Time, 368; Pope John XXIII., 370; Owl Attending a Council, 370; Sale of Indulgences, 371; Bishop Inviting his Old Master, 372; Sultan who Abdicated, 372; Pope Nicholas V., 373; Fop Elected Pope, 374; Pope Leo X., 375; Turning Pagan into Christian Monuments, 376; The Inquisition, 377; Spanish Inquisition at Work, 379; Torquemada, 379; An Auto-da-Fè in Spain, 380; Assassination of Inquisitor, 380; Cardinal Ximenes, 381; Irrepressible Heretics, 382; Waldenses, 382; Lawyer for Pope, 383.