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100 pounds; and of spices for incense to the above-written holy martyrs, blessed Marcellinus and Peter, 100 pounds; the estate of Laurentum near the aqueduct, with its bath and all its land, from the Sessorian Gate up to the Via Praenestina, from the road of the Latin Way to Mount Gabus, a possession of Helena Augusta, yielding 120 solidi; the island of Sardinia with all the possessions belonging to that same island, yielding 1,024 solidi; the island of Misenum with the possessions belonging to that same island, yielding 810 solidi; the island of Matidia, which is Mount Argentarius, yielding 600 solidi; a possession in the territory of the Sabines called the Two Cottages, beneath Mount Lucretius, yielding 200 solidi.

28. At the same time Constantine Augustus built a basilica in the city of Ostia, near the Port of the city of Rome, to the blessed apostles Peter and Paul and John the Baptist, where he also offered these gifts: a silver paten, weighing 30 pounds; 10 silver chalices, each weighing 2 pounds; 2 silver ewers, each weighing 10 pounds; 30 silver chandeliers, each weighing 5 pounds; 2 silver scyphi, each weighing 8 pounds; a single silver chrismal paten, weighing 10 pounds; a silver basin for baptism, weighing 20 pounds; the island called Assis, which lies between the Port and Ostia, all the maritime possessions up to the Finger of the Sun, yielding 655 solidi; the possession of the Greeks, in the territory of Ardea, yielding

80 solidi; the possession of Quirinus, in the territory of Ostia, yielding 311 solidi; the possession of Balneolum, in the territory of Ostia, yielding 42 solidi; the possession of Nymphulae, yielding 30 solidi. 29. Likewise the gifts which Gallicanus offered to the above-written basilica of the holy apostles Peter and Paul and John the Baptist; he offered this: a silver crown with dolphins, weighing 20 pounds; a silver chalice in relief, weighing 15 pounds; a silver ewer, weighing 18 pounds; the estate Mallianum in the territory of the Sabines, yielding 115 solidi and a tremissis; the farm Picturae, in the territory of Velletri, yielding 43 solidi; the farm of the Suri, on the Via Claudia, in the territory of Veii, yielding 56 solidi; the estate Gargiliana, in the territory of Suessa, yielding 655 solidi.

30. In the same times Constantine Augustus built a basilica of Saint John the Baptist in the city of Alba, where he placed this: a silver paten, weighing 30 pounds; a gilded silver scyphus, weighing 12 pounds; 10 silver service chalices, each weighing 3 pounds; 2 silver ewers, each weighing 20 pounds; the possession of the Lake of Turnus with its adjacent fields, yielding 60 solidi; the farm Molae, yielding 50 solidi; the possession of Lake Albanus, yielding 250 solidi; the estate Mucii, yielding 160 solidi; all the deserted aqueduct-channels or houses of the city in the city of Alba, Augustus Constantine offered as a gift to the holy church; the possession of the Gardens, yielding 20 solidi; the possession of Tiberius Caesar, yielding 280 solidi;

the possession Marinae, yielding 50 solidi; the estate Nemus, yielding 280 solidi; the possession Amartianae, in the territory of Cora, yielding 150 solidi; the possession Statiliana, yielding 70 solidi; the possession Mediana, yielding 30 solidi. 31. At the same time Constantine Augustus built a basilica of the Apostles within the city of Capua, which he named the Constantinian, where he also offered these gifts: 2 silver patens, each weighing 20 pounds; 3 silver scyphi, each weighing 8 pounds; 15 service chalices, each weighing 2 pounds; 2 silver ewers, each weighing 10 pounds; 4 bronze candlesticks, on feet, weighing 10, each 180 pounds; 30 silver chandeliers in number, each weighing 5 pounds; 30 bronze chandeliers in number;

And he offered possessions: the estate Statiliana, in the territory of Minturnae, yielding 315 solidi; a possession in the territory of Gaeta, yielding 85 solidi; the possession Paternum, in the territory of Suessa, yielding 150 solidi; the possession ad Centum, in the territory of Capua, yielding 60 solidi; a possession in the territory of Suessa called Gauronica, yielding 40 solidi; the possession of Leo, yielding 60 solidi. 32. At the same time Constantine Augustus built a basilica in the city of Naples, to which he offered these: 2 silver patens, each weighing 25 pounds; 2 silver scyphi, each weighing 10 pounds; 15 service chalices, each weighing 2 pounds; 2 silver ewers, each weighing 15 pounds; 20 silver chandeliers, each weighing 8 pounds; 20 bronze chandeliers.

He also constructed an aqueduct over 8 miles; he also built a forum in that same city, and offered this gift: the possession Macari, yielding 150 solidi; the possession Cimbriana, yielding 105 solidi; the possession Sclina, yielding 108 solidi; the possession Afilae, yielding 140 solidi; the possession Nymphulae, yielding 90 solidi; the possession of an island with a fort, yielding 80 solidi. 33. In the same times blessed Silvester established his own title in the city of Rome in the third region, beside the Baths of Domitian which are called Trajan's, the title of Silvester, where Constantine Augustus gave: a silver paten, weighing 20 pounds; a silver ewer, weighing 10 pounds; 2 silver scyphi, each weighing 8 pounds; 10 silver chandeliers, each weighing

5 pounds; 16 bronze standing chandeliers, each weighing 40 pounds; 5 silver service chalices, each weighing 2 pounds; the farm Percilianum, in the territory of the Sabines, yielding 50 solidi; the farm Barbatianum, in the territory of Ferentum, yielding 35 solidi and a tremissis; the farm Statianum, in the territory of Tribula, yielding 66 solidi and a tremissis; the farm Beruclae, in the territory of Cora, yielding 40 solidi; the farm Sulpicianum, in the territory of Cora, yielding 70 solidi; the farm Tauri, in the territory of Veii, yielding 42 solidi; the farm Sentianum, in the territory of Tibur, yielding 30 solidi; the farm Ceianum, in the territory of Praeneste, yielding 50 solidi; the farm Termulae, in the territory of Praeneste, yielding 35 solidi;

the possession of Cylo, in the territory of Praeneste, yielding 58 solidi. He also offered all things necessary to the title of Equitius. 34. This Silvester held six ordinations in the month of December: 42 presbyters, 26 deacons; bishops in various places, 65. He was buried in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Via Salaria, three miles from the city of Rome, on the day before the Kalends of January. He, indeed, a Catholic and confessor, rested in peace; and the episcopate was vacant for 15 days. 1. Marcus, a Roman by nation, son of Priscus, sat 2 years, 8 months, 20 days. He lived in the times of Constantine, in the consulship of Nepotianus and Facundus, from the day of the Kalends of February until the day of the Kalends of October.

2. He decreed that the bishop of Ostia, who consecrates the bishop, should use the pallium, and that by him the bishop of the city of Rome should be consecrated. And he ordained a decree concerning the whole church. 3. He built two basilicas, one on the Via Ardeatina where he rests, and another in the city of Rome near the Pallacine. At his suggestion Constantine Augustus offered to the basilica which he established as a cemetery on the Via Ardeatina: the farm Rosarium with all its land of the fields, yielding 40 solidi. 4. In the basilica within the city he offered this: a silver paten, weighing 30 pounds; 2 silver ewers, each weighing 20 pounds; 1 silver scyphus, weighing 10 pounds; 3 silver service chalices, each weighing 2 pounds; a silver crown, weighing 10 pounds;

the farm Antonianum, on the Via Claudia, yielding 30 solidi; the farm Baccanae, on the Via Appia, yielding 40 solidi and 2 tremisses; the farm Horrea, on the Via Ardeatina, yielding 55 solidi and a tremissis. 5. He held two ordinations in the city of Rome in the month of December: 25 presbyters, 6 deacons; bishops in various places, 27. He was also buried in the cemetery of Balbina, on the Via Ardeatina, which he himself diligently built, on the day before the Nones of October. And the episcopate was vacant for 20 days. 1. Julius, a Roman by nation, son of Rusticus, sat 15 years, 2 months, 6 days. He lived in the times of Constantine the son of Constantine, the heretic, from the consulship of Felicianus (337) and Maximinus. He endured many tribulations and was in exile for 10 months;

and after the death of this Constantine he returned with glory to the see of blessed Peter the apostle. 2. He built two basilicas, one in the city of Rome near the forum and the other across the Tiber, and three cemeteries, one on the Via Flaminia, another on the Via Aurelia, and another on the Via Portuensis. 3. He made a decree that no cleric should plead any cause whatsoever in public except in the church, and that the records which exist for all touching the church's faith should be collected by notaries, and that all documents in the church should be drawn up by the chief of the notaries—whether bonds or instruments or donations or exchanges or conveyances or testaments or pleadings or manumissions—that the clerics should execute them in the church through the holy registry.

4. He held three ordinations in the city of Rome in the month of December: 18 presbyters, 4 deacons; bishops in various places, 9. He was also buried on the Via Aurelia, in the cemetery of Calepodius, at the third milestone, on the day before the Ides of April. And the episcopate was vacant for 25 days. 1. Liberius, a Roman by nation, son of Augustus, sat 6 years, 3 months, 4 days. He lived in the times of Constantine the son of Constantine, up to Constantius Augustus for the third time. 2. He was deported into exile by Constantius because he had refused to consent to the Arian heresy, and he spent 3 years in exile. And Liberius, gathering the priests with their counsel, ordained in his place Felix, a presbyter, as bishop, a venerable man.

And Felix held a council and found two presbyters consenting to the Arian Constantius Augustus, named Ursacius and Valens, and he condemned them in a council of 48 bishops. But after a few days Ursacius and Valens, driven by zeal, asked Constantius Augustus to recall Liberius from exile, that he might share in but one communion, apart from a second baptism. Then, authority being sent through Catulinus, an agent of affairs, Ursacius and Valens together came to Liberius. And this Liberius consented to the commands of Augustus, that only one fellowship of communion should be held in common with the heretics, only that they should not rebaptize. Then they recalled Liberius from exile.

4. But Liberius, returning from exile, dwelt in the cemetery of Saint Agnes, with the sister of Constantius Augustus, so that, as it were through her intervention or at her request, Liberius might return to the city. Then Constantia Augusta, who was faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ, was unwilling to ask Constantius Augustus her brother, because she had perceived the design. 5. At the same time Constantius, together with Ursacius and Valens, summoned certain men who were of the Arian dregs, and as though a council had been held, he sent and recalled Liberius from the cemetery of blessed Agnes. And Liberius having entered Rome, in that very hour Constantius Augustus held a council with the heretics, together also with Ursacius and Valens, and removed Felix from the episcopate, who was a Catholic, and recalled Liberius.

From that same day there was persecution in the clergy, so that within the church presbyters and clerics were slain and crowned with martyrdom. Felix, deposed from the episcopate, dwelt on his small estate on the Via Portuensis, where also he rested in peace on the fourth day before the Kalends of August. Liberius, having entered the city of Rome on the fourth day before the Nones of August, consented to the heretic Constantius. 6. Liberius, however, was not rebaptized, but gave his consent, and he held the basilicas of blessed Peter and blessed Paul and the Constantinian basilica for 6 years, and there was a great persecution in the city of Rome, so that the clergy and the priests had entrance neither in the church nor in the baths. 7. This Liberius adorned the tomb of the holy martyr Agnes with marble slabs.

And so all the years of Felix are reckoned within his sequence. 8. This Felix built a basilica in his own name beside the market of Livia, and he held two ordinations in the city of Rome in the month of December: 18 presbyters, 5 deacons; bishops in various places, 19. He was also buried on the Via Salaria, in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the fifth day before the Ides of September. And the episcopate was vacant for 6 days. 1. Felix, a Roman by nation, son of Anastasius, sat 1 year, 3 months, 2 days. He declared Constantius the son of Constantine to be a heretic and rebaptized a second time by Eusebius bishop of Nicomedia, near Nicomedia, in a villa which is called Aquilo.

And on account of this declaration, by the command of that same Constantius Augustus, son of Constantine Augustus, he is crowned with martyrdom and beheaded. 2. He built a basilica on the Via Aurelia while he held the honour of the presbyterate, and in that same church he bought a field around the place, which he offered to the church that he built. 3. He held one ordination: 21 presbyters, 5 deacons, in the month of December; bishops in various places, 19. He was also beheaded with many clerics and faithful, secretly, beside the walls of the City, at the side of Trajan's aqueduct, on the third day before the Ides of November. And thereupon the Christians, with Damasus the presbyter, seized his body and buried it in his above-mentioned basilica, on the seventeenth day before the Kalends of December, in peace. And the episcopate was vacant for 38 days.

1. Damasus, a Spaniard by nation, son of Antonius, sat 18 years, 3 months, 11 days. And together with him Ursinus was ordained by intrigue; and a council of priests being held, they appointed Damasus, because he was stronger and the multitude was greater, and thus Damasus was appointed; and they expelled Ursinus from the City and appointed him bishop of Naples; and Damasus remained in the city of Rome as president in the apostolic see. He lived in the times of Julian. 2. He built two basilicas: one to blessed Lawrence near the theatre, and another on the Via Ardeatina where he rests; and in the Catacombs, where the bodies of the holy apostles Peter and Paul had lain, in which place he adorned with verses the very slab where the holy bodies had lain.

This man sought out and found many bodies of the saints, whom he also celebrated in verses. He made a decree concerning the church. 3. He was enviously accused, being charged with adultery; and a synod being held, he was cleared by 44 bishops, who also condemned Concordius and Calistus the deacons, his accusers, and cast them out of the church. 4. He established a title in the city of Rome, a basilica which he himself constructed, where also he gave: a silver paten, weighing 20 pounds; a silver ewer, weighing 15 pounds; a scyphus in relief, weighing 10 pounds; 5 silver service chalices, each weighing 3 pounds; 5 silver crowns, each weighing 8 pounds; 16 bronze standing chandeliers; houses around the basilica, yielding 155 solidi;

the possession Papirana, in the territory of Ferentinum, with its adjacent appurtenances, yielding 120 solidi and a tremissis; the possession Antoniana, in the territory of Casinum, yielding 103 solidi; a bath beside the title, yielding 27 solidi. 5. He held five ordinations in the month of December: 31 presbyters, 11 deacons; bishops in various places, 62. 6. He decreed that psalms should be sung day and night throughout all the churches; this he enjoined upon presbyters or bishops or monasteries. He was also buried on the Via Ardeatina in his own basilica, on the third day before the Ides of December, beside his mother and his sister. And the episcopate was vacant for 31 days. 1. Siricius, a Roman by nation, son of Tiburtius, sat 15 years.

He made a decree concerning the whole church and against all heresies, and spread it throughout the whole world, that it should be kept in the archive of every church against the assault of all heresies. 2. He decreed that no presbyter should celebrate masses throughout the whole week unless he should receive the consecrated portion declared by the bishop of the appointed place, which is called the fermentum. 3. He found the Manichaeans in the City, whom he also deported into exile;

and he decreed this: that if anyone converted from the Manichaeans should return to the church, he should by no means be admitted to communion, but only be held bound by confinement to a monastery for the day of his life, and being mortified by fastings and prayers, being tested under every examination until the last day of his passing, that the church's kindness might bestow upon them the viaticum. 4. He decreed that a heretic should be reconciled by the laying on of the hand in the presence of the whole church. He held five ordinations in the city of Rome in the month of December: 31 presbyters, 16 deacons; bishops in various places, 32 in number. He was also buried in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Via Salaria, on the eighth day before the Kalends of March. And the episcopate was vacant for 20 days.

1. Anastasius, a Roman by nation, son of Maximus, sat 3 years, 10 days. He decreed that, whenever the holy gospels are recited, the priests should not sit, but should stand bowed. He made a decree concerning the church. He also built a basilica, which is called the Crescentian, in the second region, on the Via Mamurtina, in the city of Rome. 2. And he decreed this: that no cleric from across the sea should be received unless he should produce the signed declaration of five bishops, because at that same time Manichaeans were found in the city of Rome. 3. He held two ordinations in the month of December: 9 presbyters, 5 deacons; bishops in various places, 11. He was also buried in his own cemetery at the Hatted Bear, on the fifth day before the Kalends of May. And the episcopate was vacant for 21 days.

1. Innocentius, of Alban nationality, son of Innocentius, sat 15 years, 2 months, 21 days. He made a decree concerning the whole church and concerning the rules of monasteries and concerning the Jews and concerning the pagans, and he found many Cataphrygians, whom he confined to the exile of a monastery. 2. He found the heretics Pelagius and Caelestius and condemned them. And he decreed this: that one born of a Christian woman should be born anew through baptism, that is, be baptized—which Pelagius condemned. 3. At the same time he dedicated the basilica of Saints Gervasius and Protasius, out of the devotion of a certain illustrious woman, Vestina, with the presbyters Ursicinus and Leopardus and the deacon Livianus labouring.

Which above-written woman so ordained the page of her testament, that the basilica of the holy martyrs should be constructed from her ornaments and pearls, sold at just valuations. And the basilica being constructed to completion, in which place the most blessed Innocentius, by the bequest of the illustrious woman Vestina, established a Roman title, 4. and in that same Lord's house he offered: 2 silver patens, each weighing 20 pounds; 2 silver ewers, each weighing 20 pounds; 12 silver crowns, each weighing 15 pounds; one chandelier, weighing 22 pounds; 4 silver standing candlesticks, each weighing 25 pounds; a silver tower with a paten and a gilded dove, weighing 30 pounds. 5. The furnishings of the baptistery: a silver stag pouring out water, weighing

25 pounds; a silver vessel for the oil of chrism, weighing 5 pounds; another vessel for the exorcized oil, weighing 5 pounds; 2 patens for chrism, each weighing 3 pounds; a silver scyphus in relief, weighing 10 pounds; a silver scyphus, weighing 10 pounds; 5 silver chalices, each weighing 3 pounds; 3 silver chalices for baptism, each weighing 2 pounds; a silver basin-and-ewer, weighing 16 pounds; 16 bronze chandeliers, each weighing 10 pounds; 20 bronze standing chandeliers in the bosom of the basilica, each weighing 40 pounds; a house beside the Liberian basilica, yielding 85 solidi and a tremissis; a bath in the same place, beside the temple of Mamurius, yielding 32 solidi; a house with a bath on the Slope of Salus, yielding 77 solidi and a tremissis;

the possession Sorrae, in the territory of Clusium, yielding 71 solidi and a tremissis; the possession Corbianum, in the territory of Clusium, yielding 79 solidi; the possession Fundanensis, in the territory of Fundi, with 15 adjacent appurtenances, yielding 181 solidi and a tremissis; the possession Figlinae, in the territory of Casinum, yielding 58 solidi and a tremissis; the possession Amandini, which she gave to the illustrious woman Vestina her cousin, in the territory of Veii, yielding 46 solidi and a tremissis; the possession Antonianum, in the territory of Lodi, yielding 62 solidi; the house of Emeritus, on the Slope of Mamurius, within the city of Rome, beside the basilica, yielding 62 solidi; a house on the Slope of Patricius, valued by arbitration;

a house beside the basilica, on the Long Street, which is named ad Lacum, yielding 82 solidi; a house at the Florian stone chair, yielding 58 solidi; a bakery on the Long Street, which is called Castoriani, yielding 61 solidi; a bath on the Long Street, which is called Templus, yielding 40 solidi; 3 siliquae and 3 ounces of the Nomentan Gate, yielding 22 solidi and a tremissis. He decreed that the Saturday fast should be observed, because on the Sabbath the Lord was laid in the tomb and the disciples fasted. 7. He decreed that the basilica of the holy martyr Agnes should be governed and roofed and adorned by the care of the presbyters Leopardus and Paulinus; by their arrangement, power over the above-written title of Vestina was granted to the presbyters.

8. He held four ordinations in the city of Rome in the month of December: 30 presbyters, 12 deacons; bishops in various places, 54. He was also buried in the cemetery at the Hatted Bear, on the fifth day before the Kalends of August. And the episcopate was vacant for 22 days. 1. Zosimus, a Greek by nation, son of Abramius, sat 1 year, 3 months, 11 days. He decreed many things for the church and made a decree that the deacons should have their left arms covered with linen dalmatics; and that throughout the parishes leave was granted for the paschal candle to be blessed. And he commanded that no cleric should drink in a public tavern, but only in the cells of the faithful, especially of the clergy. 2. He held ordinations in the city of Rome in the month of December: 10 presbyters, 3 deacons; bishops in various places, 8.

He was also buried on the Via Tiburtina, beside the body of blessed Lawrence the martyr, on the seventh day before the Kalends of January. And the episcopate was vacant for 11 days. 1. Bonifatius, a Roman by nation, son of Iocundus a presbyter, sat 3 years, 8 months, 7 days. He was ordained by intrigue together with Eulalius on one day, and there was dissension in the clergy for 7 months and 15 days. Eulalius indeed was ordained in the Constantinian basilica, but Bonifatius in the basilica of Julia. 2. At the same time Placidia Augusta, hearing of this with her son Valentinian Augustus, while they were residing at Ravenna, reported it to Honorius Augustus residing at Milan. At the same time both Augusti, sending their authority, commanded this: that both should leave the city.

And when, being expelled, they had departed, Bonifatius dwelt in the cemetery of the holy martyr Felicitas, on the Via Salaria, but Eulalius in the city of Antium, at Saint Hermes. 3. But when the next day of Easter came, Eulalius presumed, because he had been ordained in the Constantinian basilica, and entered the City and baptized and celebrated Easter in the Constantinian basilica; but Bonifatius, as the custom was, celebrated the baptism of Easter in the basilica of the blessed martyr Agnes. 4. The Augusti, hearing this, sent for both and removed Eulalius, and sending their authority recalled Bonifatius to the city of Rome and appointed him bishop; but Eulalius they sent away into Campania.

And after 3 years and 8 months Bonifatius died. The clergy and people petitioned that Eulalius be recalled. But Eulalius did not consent to return to Rome. He, however, in that same place of Campania, died a year after the death of Bonifatius. 5. This Bonifatius decreed that no woman or nun should touch or wash the consecrated pall or place incense in the church, except a minister; nor that a slave should be made a cleric, nor one bound to a curia or to any obligation. 6. He built an oratory in the cemetery of Saint Felicitas, beside her body, and adorned the tomb of the holy martyr Felicitas and of Saint Silvanus, where also he placed this: a silver paten, weighing 20 pounds; a silver scyphus, weighing 10 pounds;

a silver ewer, weighing 13 pounds; 2 smaller chalices, each weighing 4 pounds; 3 silver crowns, each weighing 15 pounds. 7. He held one ordination in the month of December: 13 presbyters, 3 deacons; bishops in various places, 36. He was also buried on the Via Salaria, beside the body of the holy martyr Felicitas, on the eighth day before the Kalends of November. And the episcopate was vacant for 9 days. 1. Caelestinus, a Campanian by nation, son of Priscus, sat 8 years, 10 months, 17 days. He made many decrees and decreed that the 150 psalms of David should be sung antiphonally by all before the sacrifice, which was not done before, but only the epistle of blessed Paul was recited and the holy Gospel.

He made a decree concerning the whole church, especially also concerning religion, which are today kept hidden in the archive of the church. 2. He dedicated the basilica of Julius, in which, after the Gothic fire, he offered: a silver paten, weighing 25 pounds; 2 silver scyphi, each weighing 8 pounds; 2 silver ewers, each weighing 10 pounds; 5 smaller silver chalices, each weighing 3 pounds; a silver basin-and-ewer, weighing 10 pounds; 2 silver candlesticks, each weighing 30 pounds; 24 bronze standing chandeliers, each weighing 30 pounds; likewise 10 silver crowns, each weighing 10 pounds. To blessed Peter the apostle: a chandelier, weighing 25 pounds, of purest silver; silver standing chandeliers in the bosom of the basilica, each weighing

20 pounds. To blessed Paul the apostle: a silver chandelier, weighing 25 pounds; 24 standing chandeliers, each weighing 20 pounds. 3. He held three ordinations in the month of December: 32 presbyters, 12 deacons; bishops in various places, 46. He was also buried in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Via Salaria, on the eighth day before the Ides of April. And the episcopate was vacant for 21 days. 1. Xystus, a Roman by nation, son of Xystus, sat 8 years, 19 days. After one year and 8 months he was charged with a crime by a certain Bassus. At the same time Valentinian Augustus, hearing of this, ordered a council [a holy synod] to be assembled;