_Odoacer_, extinguishes the western emperor, 22; named Patricius of the Romans by the emperor Zeno, 35; slain by Theodorick, 38; his exaltation foretold by St. Severinus, 22 _Olybrius_, Roman emperor, 20 _Orosius_, an important anecdote preserved by him, 43 _Pallium_, sent by the Pope to the chief bishop in each province, 337; the duties and powers which it carried with it, 337 _Papal election_, the freedom of, assailed by Odoacer, 194, 292; by Theodorick and Justinian, 210, 292 _Pelagius II._, Pope, 578-590, describes the state of Rome, 277 _Petra Apostolica_, in the sixty Popes preceding Gregory, 352; in the Popes from St. Gregory to Innocent III., 353; in the Popes from Innocent III. to Leo XIII., 355; sustained by opposing forces, 359 _Philips_, "Kirchenrecht," his judgment of Theodorick, 41; on Byzantine succession, 61 _Primacy, the Roman_, its denial suicidal in all who believe one holy Catholic Church, 3-4; the creator of Christendom, 5, 6, 10, 57-8; tested by the division of the empire, 51; still more by the extinction of the western emperor, 53; witness to it by Guizot, 55; saves, in the seven successors of St. Leo, the eastern Church from becoming Eutychean, 179-86; developed by the sufferings of sixty years, 188; acknowledged by the Council of Africa after the expulsion of the Vandals, 201; defined by the Vatican Council, as held by St. Gregory I., 307; saves the western bishops from absorption in their several countries, 330; preserver of civil liberties, 333; resister of Byzantine despotism, 333; its development from St. Leo I. to St. Gregory I., 342; confirmed and illustrated by civil disasters, 346; as Rome, the secular city, diminishes, the Primacy advances, 357 _Rechared_, king of the Spanish Visigoths, converted, 318; his letter to St. Gregory informing him of his conversion, 321 _Reumont_, "Geschichte der Stadt Rom.," quoted, over-lordship of Byzantium, 19; Odoacer, Patricius at Rome, 35; picture of Theodorick, 36; of his government, 38; sparing of St. Peter's and St. Paul's, 213; Totila's deeds, 215; Narses made Patricius of Rome, 245; the Pragmatic Sanction, 246 _Riffel_, "Kirche und Staat," quoted, 190, 251, 253, 254, 255, 256, 267 _Roehrbacher_, the German edition of the history, quoted, 128, 142, 162, 192, 198, 199, 200, 202, 205, 245, 303, 305 _Rome_, its fall as a city coeval with the universal recognition of the Papal Primacy, 6-10; this fall and this recognition traced from Constantine to St. Gregory, 356-8; imperial, its death agony of twenty-one years, 23; its sufferings in the Gothic war, 210-23; the new city, from Narses, lives only by the Primacy, 294; its extreme misery in the days of St. Gregory, 281, 284 _Romulus Augustulus_, Roman emperor, 21