A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

656 A Source Book for Ancient Church History[599]promulgated, discussion arose, and final action was ventilatedconcerning persons.(f) Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum, IV, 32, 33, 36.(MSL, 95:657.)The continuation of the schism in Istria and the rise of the twopatriarchates of Aquileia. The Emperor Phocas and the title“Head of All the Churches.”32. In the following month of November [A. D. 605] KingAgilulf concluded peace with the Patrician Smaragdus for a year,and received from the Romans twelve thousand solidi. Also theTuscan cities Balneus Regis [Bagnarea] and Urbs Vetus [Orvieto]were conquered by the Lombards. Then appeared in theheavens in the months of April and May a star which is calleda comet. Thereupon King Agilulf again made a peace with theRomans for three years.33. In the same days after the death of the patriarch Severus,the abbot John was made patriarch of old Aquileia in his placewith the approval of the king and Duke Gisulf. Also in Grados[Grado] the Roman 251 Candidianus was appointed bishop. In themonths of November and December a comet was again visible.After the death of Candidianus, Epiphanius, who had formerlybeen the papal chief notary, was elected patriarch by the bishopswho stood under the Romans; and since this time there were twopatriarchs.36. Phocas, as also has been related above, after the murder ofMaurice and his sons, obtained the Roman Empire and ruled forSee Hefele, §§ 195, 196. The case of Theodore of Mopsuestia, however, didnot come before the Council of Chalcedon, because he was dead. v. supra, §93, the Constitutum of Vigilius.251 I.e., in communion with the Roman see.