Distinction first introduced? We may, perhaps, account for it thus: _Irenæus_, with all the _Greeks_, and St. _Jerom_, among the _Latins_, place _Anacletus_, as we have observed above, before _Clement_; whereas St. _Austin_ and _Optatus Milevitanus_ place him after. This, and his being called _Cletus_ by _Epiphanius_, and in several Copies of _Ruffinus_, might induce some to imagine, that as the Names and Places were different, so were the Persons. Thus, as we conjecture, of one Pope Two Popes were made, Two Saints, and Two Martyrs; for, in the Canon of the Mass, he has a Place with _Linus_ among the Martyrs; though neither was acknowleged for such by _Irenæus_, or any of the Antients; nay, _Anacletus_ is said, in some Pontificals, to have _died in Peace_, that is, according to the Phrase of those Days, of a natural Death[100]. _Bollandus_, after having much laboured, but laboured in vain, to maintain the Distinction between _Cletus_ and _Anacletus_, yields at last, and gives up the Point. But yet, unwilling to make the least Alteration in the Catalogue of the Popes, which places, with the Approbation of the Holy See, _Clement_ between _Cletus_ and _Anacletus_, he strives to save it with a new and pretty extraordinary Invention; for he pretends _Anacletus_ or _Cletus_ to have resigned the Chair to _Clement_, and _Clement_, in his Turn, to have yielded it to him again. Thus, according to him, though _Cletus_ and _Anacletus_ are one and the same Person, yet no Fault is to be found with the Catalogue; and _Clement_ is rightly placed both after and before him[101]. This is a Speculation of his own, altogether groundless, and therefore not worthy of a Place here, were it not to shew what low Shifts and Subterfuges even Men of Parts, in the Church of _Rome_, chuse to submit to, rather than to yield to Reason, in Points that seem to derogate from the Authority of that See. _Anacletus_ governed the Church Twelve Years, according to _Eusebius_[102]; to which some add Two Months, some Three, and some only one; so that he must have died in the Year 91. He is supposed to have been buried next to St. _Peter_, in the _Vatican_, where his supposed Body is shewn, and worshiped to this Day[103]. [Sidenote: _Decretals ascribed to him_.] We find, in the Collection of _Isidorus Mercator_, Three Decretals, under the Name of _Cletus_; but such Decretals as are anterior to the Pontificate of Pope _Syricius_, who was elected in the Year 384 are now universally looked upon as bare-faced Forgeries[104][N3]. ----- Footnote N3: