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Leaders of the People

Note 3 — Archbishop Anselm and Norman Autocracy 1093–1109

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“No one in those days imagined Christianity without Christendom, and Christendom without a Pope: and all these bishops understood exactly as Anselm did the favourite papal text, ‘Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church.’ Nobody in those days doubted the divine authority of the Pope.”—Church, Saint Anselm.

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