He begins it by a strenuous recommendationof union with their bishop, priests, and deacons; and gives to heresy, and composed a synodal letter to explain and prove the Catholicfaith This excellent piece was confirmed in the sixth general council. at Philadelphia: at Smyrna: but in that to the Romans he changes his style, and addresses his am a Christian: I have been at the collect, and itwas of my own voluntary choice, without any compulsion.
Heis honored by the Greeks and Latins on this day, which was that of hisdeath. , in 1057, prevailed with him to quit his desert, and madehim cardinal bishop of Ostia. But our surprise redoubles upon us, when we rememberhis continual bad state of health and frequent sicknesses, a ed forit, and this self-conceit and confidence in his own abilities rendershim the most unworthy of all others.
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