GELASIUS. 
“In 494, Gelafins wrote letters to the bifhops of Dalmatia, 
and afterwards to thofe of Dardania, juftifying his own 
conduét in the caine of Acacius; and urging them to 
B of abfolution was pronounced in 
favour of » he was obliged folemnly to declare that 
he condemned, anat nag and for ever execrated all 
which occafion he iffued a decree, by which all perfons who 
embraced their. fentiments were condemned to bani ment, 
that practice 
upper, but to refufe the 
in the ftrongeft terms, and ordered thofe who refufed the 
ommunion oth kinds, to ee xcluded from either, 
** becaufe,’’ faid he one an ‘the fame myftery cannot be 
divided without facrilege.’ Gelafius died in the year 496, 
having filled the high office of pope almott five years. He 
was author of many works, fome of which were written 
avowedly in juftification of his own = in fuppreffing 
herefies, and in the abfolution of Mifen His moft cele- 
ciliorum,’’ fo this was inferted i e eighth volume of the 
Biblioth. Patrum. Gelafius is thought to have been the 
author of the ¢ d: acramentarius,’’ which is a collec- 
tion of fuch forms of public prayers and adminiftrations of 
the facraments as were in ufe in the church of Rome in his 
a digefted in a new order, and including many additional 
of his own. The manufcript of this codex was un- 
aeeee for many ages, till, at the ge of the Flo- 
‘rentine library, it fell into the hands Paul Petau, by 
whofe fon it was placed in the library of ‘Chriftina, queen 0 
Sweden ; at her defire it was printed, for the firlt time, at 
n iluftrious ace at 
he mo 
of e 
ating thefe defencelefs 
who was already 
into irons and taken to his 
This act 
men, Frangipa 
covered with blood, to be put 
‘houle, where he was thrown into a dark dungeon. . 
‘did not go unrevenged: the ea party oe the 
houfe oe Frangipani, with the prefect of city, and 
others of the nobility at their ee piney : fet fire to 
it, and to put him and his family to death, if the pope were 
not immediately releafed. This threat produced the defired 
effe@, t pope was liberated, 
crowned with due 
pope by all the imperial party at Rome. ir 
was se to leave the papal city, and mn eek refuge 
at Gaeta, his native place, where he was received with 
loud acclamations, and had ambaffadors fent to him by the 
Norman princes, we declared themfelves ready to fupport 
him to the utmott o Upon the emperor’s re- 
F 
by a large body o ae bopuinens to feize on 
Celafius, and fend him prifoner to the emperor he pope, 
however, efcaped, and, his friends flocking together from all 
parts, a civil war commenced in Rom which numbers 
i es. The imperial party a 
length prevailed, and Gelafius, defpairing of being ever ce 
to lg his rival, quitted Italy, an embarked for Frarice, 
where he arrived in November 1118. Here he was xe- 
fae with. all poffible marks - refpect and efteem, and 
upplied by the clergy and nobility with large fums of 
money, in order to fupport him in his rank and dignity 
e reigning rch, - s the Grofs, fent him the moft 
magnificent prefents, with affurances 2 his aa an 
ffiftance in fix im n his e ow- 
ever, in January 1119, having firft vifited feveral a. in 
the exerc - his pontifical fun€tions, and appointed a 
council to m t Riki to confult eicue the oe of 
a tate of ceclefaical difcipline in the Gallican churches. 
d for piety and the moft exemplary mor 
ean a the Colleétio Conciliorum are ten letters written 
by this pope. author of the ‘ Life of Erafmus,’” 
bifhop of Gaeta, a alto of the ** Lives of Anatolia and 
Clara” the firft was written in profe, the others in 
verfe. i 
GrLa ae “biop oo Cefarea, was chofen to that high 
office in the ycar 380. e is claffed, b . Jerome and 
he ecclefiattical ncn of 
me fragments of the writ ings of this pre- 
late, ea lauaeare of the apoftles’ creed, and of the traditions 
of the church, are to be met with in the Greek colleétion 
of fel oni, under the re dee John Damatcenus, ip he 
nay ae hela He died 
Eutychians, under the 
e emperor penta and as that fed 
boafted that the decrees of the co ice were favour. 
rft t of the council 
and the third only three letters of the emperor Conftantine 
5A2 Thi is 
