Friday, December 15, 2006

The Archduke ponders the crowd...


Everyone was delighted by the wisdom and charm of the Archduke. As soon as one heard him speak, the common sentiment was: "this man is a prodigy."

“There are indeed, most august emperor, two powers by which this world is chiefly ruled: the sacred authority of the popes and the royal power.”

Pope Gelasius I: Letter to the Emperor Anastasius I. (Ep. 12) (494)

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