[6] St. Clement was soon exiled to the Chersonesus, where he remained for several years before his martyrdom there, and St. Linus during his absence filled his place in Rome till the death of St. Clement and his own succession to the Pontificate. Hence, many historians call Linus the immediate successor of St. Peter. St. Clement occupied the Papal Chair for 9 years, 6 months and 6 days, and, whereas modern lay historians give the length of St. Linus’ reign as one year, he reigned in reality for 11 years, 2 months and 23 days. The confusion of the various Roman calendars at the time of the birth of our Lord gave rise to the errors in the calculation of that event and others following it. Our own accepted date is on that account some years removed from the true one. [7] Taken from the epistle of St. Denis the Areopagite to Timothy, in which he narrates the incident and records the Apostles’ words. [8] Dom Guéranger. [9] See “A Diplomatist’s Wife in Many Lands.” [10] Until the year 844 the Popes had continued to bear their own names after being elected to the Throne, but when the choice fell on a holy and humble man called Peter, he refused to keep the name of the Prince of the Apostles and chose for himself that of Sergivs—a renunciation which instituted the custom, followed ever since, of the Pope’s selecting a new name on his accession. [11] St. Novatus—apparently a brother or cousin of Pudens. [12] This translation of Pastor’s narrative is the one used by Augustus J. Hare in his “Walks in Rome.” [13] She is often called “Eudoscia,” by historians, and was also named “Athenaïs,” being the daughter of a famous rhetorician of Athens. [14] See “A Diplomatist’s Wife in Many Lands.” [15] “Argumentosa”—that which is proven. [16] This hypothesis appears to me more reasonable than the one usually put forward, viz: That Cecilia’s inscription was destroyed by the Goths. They destroyed many such inscriptions, with the tombs that bore them, but the resting-place of St. Cecilia when discovered showed no marks of violence and answered precisely to the contemporary description of it. [17] It is amusing to note in this connection the statement in Baedeker’s guidebook for Rome, p. 422: “St. Cecilia in Trastevere—originally a dwelling house, which was converted into a Church by Urban I., _who was misled by the erroneous tradition that St. Cecilia had once occupied it_.” The italics are my own. Such ignorance of history requires no comment. [18] The coffin is four feet, three inches long, thirteen inches broad, and seventeen inches high. [19] Augustus Hare. [20] Every Cardinal takes his title from one or other of the ancient Churches—hence the term “Titular Cardinal of St. Cecilia,” “of St. Clement,” etc., etc.