THE POPE IN HISTORY.
The " Boston Pilot" says that the following summary of the persecutions suffered by the Popes in Rome will reassure timid Catholics in the present sorrowful events. The list extends over fifteen centuries of persecution.—ln 409. Under Pope Innocent 1., the city of Rome was sacked by Alaric, King of the Goths. In 455. Under St. Leo I„ the city of Home was taken and sacked by Genseric, King of the Vandals. In 466. Under St. Hilary, the city was taken and sacked by Ricimero, King of the Vandals. In 476 Under St Simplicius, the city was conquered by Odoacer, King of the ErulL In 536. Under St. Silverius, the city was besieged and taken by General Belisarius. In 546, Under Vigilius, the city was retaken and sacked by Totila, King of the Goths. In 555., Under Pelarius, the city was beseiged and retaken by General Narseter. la 847. Under Leo IV., the Vatican was invaded and sacked by the Saracens. In 887. Under Gregory V., this Pope, was imprisoned by Crescentius ra Castle St. Angelo for eleven years. lia 1805. St Gregory VII., was beseiged by the Emperior Henry IV. in the Castle St Angelo, 1347. Under Clement V. the city was raised to a republic under Cola di Rienza. In 1453, under Nicholas V., Stephen Porcari became the chief of the new Latin Republic. In 1527, Clement VII., was besieged by the Imperialists in Castle St; Angelo for six months. In 1796. Under Pius VI. the City and State were converted into a Roman Republic, and he was made prisoner. In 1809. Under pius VII. Rome was incorporated with the Empire, and the Pope imprisoned. In 1848. Under Pius IX. the Mazziniari Republic was established in Rome and the surrounding districts, and the Pope was a fugitive. In 1870. Pius IX. is a prisoner in the new capital. In this enumeration we do not reckon the personal sufferings which so many Pontiffs endured, commencing with the thirty-two martyrs, for the case of the Church; how Leo. IV. was a prisoner of the Normans,, Boniface VIII. of Phillipe le Bel, &c, Ac
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 15, 6 May 1871, Page 15
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356THE POPE IN HISTORY. New Zealand Mail, Issue 15, 6 May 1871, Page 15
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