Note 112 — Chapter VI · DELIBERATIONS.
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These are the very words of Decius, on the election of St. Cornelius to the See of St. Peter: “Cum multo patientius audiret levari adversum se æmulum principem, quam constitui Romæ Dei sacerdotem.” S. Cypr. Ep. lii. ad Antonianum, p. 69, ed. Maur. Could there be a stronger proof, that under the heathen empire, the papal power was sensible and external, even to the extent of exciting imperial jealousy?