The sun., 1901-11-10
LgrrERs FROM rHk PEOPLE,
The /" Bo.om" Of Homo or Grcecc.

The BOsOm" Of Homo or Creece.
To yHE EDITon or TuE srS-Sir: The
Letter OF Another Anglican Catholic. OF Troy.
In protest against tho well-developed move
ment of certain Episcopallans toward Rome
calls for little historical research IL seems
" be n question of "bosoms" with the ner'''-
man from Troy Why sbould he refer 10
the bosom" Of Greece? Does he krow the
history or tho Greek schsni? He would
he Us well ia tho bosom" Of Henry VIII or
Of Elizab,t
Now. ne to TIC Crock Schlsni Our friend
nj Troy would not like t. rcpOsc In the Ore
cian bosom" think, did he know all oi
the circumstances lie would surely prefer
Rome were he better Informed %; the recorded
facta The canOu~ Of the Church reinting
- the Patriarch Of Constar tinorlr required
that dguitlry to be in accord with the Poprs.
and also agreeable t0 the Emperor ot the
East ,rn Empire Theodore. the Queen
Mother. reigning about u. $40. acting
with the Pope. dcposcd John. the Iconociast
Patriarch. and Mathodius was appointed
| in his stead After Mathodus came lgna-
tius. In si5 Bardus Gear the uncle OF u"
| heir-npparent, Michael, was man of I'M
| portance and Il Gucnce in the empire lie
led "a lloeItio,Is life. and lgnrtius pubhcy
! refused him Holy Communion because of
| particular inccstuous crime. weli-known
! az the time to the public. Barda- set about
/ the overthrow Of lgnatius. and, aesociatuI
! with himself PhQtlr-, smart and amhit Gus
| layman OF high o1lco. prevailed on the boy
| Michael TO take the throne and send his
| mother and sIstcr to n monastery He ban
| lshed Ignatus. who had been Patriarch Tor
/ eleven years, Photlus was made Patrmrch
without the fOrmality, even, OF an electoh
while he was yet layman. Ignatius had
refused 70 resign ct the inyitation oi bardhs ~.
communion Of tho Church as a schisniatie.
| No bishop could bc induced 10 ordain
| Photius until that Schemor made confession
OF faith and submission Then he was run
through the various stages Of ordination N
one week But within month ne Degah
by @t Ss prst"ndad d euSmssioS SG ION Photius had
sahed him his spiritual father He and and
stsntinonie. and they confined him in "a a dun dun
geon until one day his keepers took ms hanG
forcibly and made rcros;.-msrk on q bnnE as,nE
in with formal rcsignaton -, h.
Photius and Bardas, in the name o, ths
RcTSs SsPoISs 'eS% dcearins fn that faFa,u- had
sion Of faith. and declared his spbordins,
cautious because he did not receive any ny
direct communication from lgnatins ~"
tions to report. but, tnese legatrs were SCI
duced bv. Bardas and party They exceeoed
their authority, ard went 80 far as 70 noio
| and prepared a petition TO Pope Nicholes
the sptS bS sn S@s 1nS Bhop
and hy hundreds of monks and priests II
was t1ken 10 Rome nv Th"ognostes
| In the meantime Photiu- had advised the
murder Of Isnati,s but the latter ESCAPED
| The Pope. on being advised OF the situation
denounced the outrage and sent letters "a
the Patriarchs OF Antioch, Alexandra ana
| Jerusalem. requiring them To have ms ue-
nuncintion read In all Of the churches Of me
| Fast Photius refused to read the letter
which was sent to him, aud, instead thereof,
PRETENDED b eHd to have received by the hands Of
| FIistatlus This forgery Eusnuu- hIWt
ward acknowied red. and he was scourged
by order Of Bardns-for acknowledging H.
In a letter which Nicholas al that time sent
20 the Emperor, this Pope said Me have
your letters to Pope Leo aud ourselves where s,,
YOU give testimony Of the virtue of lgnatins.
and the regularity Of his ordination ana
The action Of the Pope fully exposed Pho,
phuscd He immediately preya'led OF
SaTds. to get tho EmRcro[ to Cd! oS SounS 5Sa
incontincntlv excommunicated poor Pope
Nicholas Only twrnty-one Bishops 'ouiu
This wa the beginning of the Greek schism
Ali modern movements Of the Greek church
Of a schismatic nature can be easily traoeo
Bm, even this schism did not outlast tho
life Of Ienatius The Emperor had BaTdas
! troops Then he as-ocHted Ba IL with himself
| m the Government. and then Basil had MIN
! killed OF photiu- was eXiled and lgnatius
was permitted 20 return, which event oc-
Cured Nov g. u so1
All Of these facts can be verined by pc
rusal Of the letters of Pope NiChol0s on nle
IN the records of the Vatican library, espc-
| siRlly Letters 4. 10 and IA, also the records
| Of the first year of Adrian u who sue
| ,,-eded Nicholas In s57
Another Anglican Catholic. the gentleman
| from Troy, N he H. really In earnestSwill, on
| "A calm examination of real Catholic uthof T.
ties change his mind about the Greek thurcl
! and come right over under that yoke oi
Rome. which correspondent Edwhrd !
| men throw away inherited and acquired
! preIudioes and examine the question thor
| oughly on all sides. az all sources. they VII
| not fail Ia see the rlght side Ana a. one ol
the Abls-t writer's on matters ~ faith ~ y
~ the will T. - md ana accept the uuth
| ,h. henrt will follow The will haS a strong
determining force N such matters. .
pAwTItkFT, oct "a I.