With whom the four Popes--Gelasius, Anastasius, Symmachus, and Hormisdas--have to deal, 101 Euphemius, writing to the Pope, acknowledges him to be successor of St. Peter, 103 Gelasius replies to Euphemius, insisting on the repudiation of Acacius, 104 Absolute obedience of the Illyrian bishops professed to the Apostolic See, 105 Gelasius shows that the canons make the First See supreme judge of all, 106 Says that the bishop of Constantinople holds no rank among bishops, 107 Praises bishops who have resisted the wrongdoings of temporal rulers, 108 The Holy See, in virtue of its Principate, confirms every Council, 109 Gelasius in 494 defines to the emperor the domain of the Two Powers, 110 And the subordination of the temporal ruler in spiritual things, 111 The words of Gelasius have become the law of the Church, 113 The emperor Anastasius deposes Euphemius by the Resident Council, 114 Pope Gelasius, in a council of seventy bishops at Rome, sets forth the divine institution of the Primacy, 115 And the order of the three Patriarchal Sees, 115 And three General Councils--the Nicene, Ephesine, and Chalcedonic, 115 Denies to the see of Constantinople any rank beyond that of an ordinary bishop, and omits the Council of 381, 116 Death of Pope Gelasius and character of his pontificate, 118 His own description of the time in which he lived, 118 CHAPTER III. (XLV.). PETER STOOD UP. Pope Anastasius: his letter to the emperor Anastasius, 120 He makes the Pope's position in the Church parallel with that of the emperor in the world, 121 He writes to Clovis on his conversion, 122 St. Gregory of Tours notes the prosperity of Catholic kingdoms and the decline of Arian in the West, 123 Letter of St. Avitus, bishop of Vienne, to Clovis on his baptism, 124 He recognises the vast importance of the professing the Catholic faith by Clovis, 125 And the duty of Clovis to propagate the faith in peoples around, 126 How the words of St. Avitus to Clovis were fulfilled in history, 127