His management of the Patrimonium Petri, 340 His success with schismatics and heretics, 341 The Primacy from St. Leo to St. Gregory, 342 The continued rise of the bishop of Constantinople, 343-5 The political degradation and danger of Rome, 345 Long disaster reveals still more the purely spiritual foundation of the Primacy, 346 Testimony given by the disappearance of the Arian governments and the conversion of Franks and Saxons, 347 The patriarchate of Constantinople imposed by civil law, 348 The Nicene constitution in the East impaired by despotism and heresy, 349 The persistent defence of this constitution by the Popes, 350 The Petra Apostolica in the sixty Popes preceding Gregory, 352 As discerned by Hurter in the time of Pope Innocent III., 353 As in the time from Pope Innocent III. to Leo XIII., 355 The continuous Primacy from St. Peter to St. Gregory, 355 As Rome diminishes the Primacy advances, 356 The times in which it was exercised by St. Gregory, 358 The opposing forces which unite to sustain the Petra Apostolica, 359 INDEX, 361 THE HOLY SEE AND THE WANDERING OF THE NATIONS. CHAPTER I. THE HOLY SEE AND THE WANDERING OF THE NATIONS. "Rome's ending seemed the ending of a world. If this our earth had in the vast sea sunk, Save one black ridge whereon I sat alone, Such wreck had seemed not greater. It was gone, That empire last, sole heir of all the empires, Their arms, their arts, their letters, and their laws. The fountains of the nether deep are burst, The second deluge comes. And let it come! The God who sits above the waterspouts Remains unshaken." --A. DE VERE, _Legends and Records_--"Death of St. Jerome".