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Hadrian I, 772-795

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language, said: "Baptizo te in nomine Patria et Filia et Spiritus Sancti." And on account of this your honored brotherhood has considered re-baptizing. But . . . if that one who baptized, not introducing an error or a heresy, but through mere ignorance of the Roman speech by breaking up the language, baptizing he said, as we mentioned above, we do not agree that they should be baptized a second time.

[From the epistle (10 resp. 11) "Sacris liminibus" to St. Boniface, May 1, 748 (?)]

297a. In that (synod of the Angles) it is distinctly recognized that such a decree and judgment is very firmly commanded and diligently demonstrated, so that whoever had been washed without the invocation of the Trinity, he has not been perfected, unless he shall have been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

(STEPHEN II 752) ST. PAUL I 757-767 ST. STEPHEN III 752-757 1 STEPHEN IV 768-772

HADRIAN I 772-795

The Primacy of the Roman Pontiff 2

[From the epistle "Pastoralibus Curis" to the Patriarch Tarasius in the year 785]

298. . . . Let that false assembly, which without the Apostolic See . . . was held contrary to the traditions of the venerable fathers against the divine images, be declared anathema in the presence of our delegates, and let the word of our Lord Jesus Christ be fulfilled, that "the gates of hell shall not prevail against her" (Matt. 16:18); and again: "Thou art Peter . . ." (Matt. 16:18-19), whose throne holding the first place in all

  1. The replies of Stephen III given in the year 754 are extant [ML 89, 1024 ff.], in one of which imperfect divorce is permitted, "if the weakness of an evil spirit or the stain of leprosy occurs"; and in the third of these it is decreed: "If anyone in a foreign land should take a slave woman in marriage, and afterwards on returning to his own country should take a free-born woman, and it should again happen that he return to the very country in which he had been before, and that slave woman, whom he previously had, had associated with another man, this person in such circumstances can take another woman, but not while that free-born woman is living whom he had in his own country." The Council of Verberia, 756 can., 5-12 [ML 96 1507 f.] and of Compiegne, 756, can. 11, 13, 16 [ML 96, 1514] undoubtedly made certain erroneous decisions on the indissolubility of marriage. ↩

  2. Msi XII 1081D; Jf 2449 c. Add.; Hrd IV 102 B; cf. Hfl III 448 ff.—This Greek version (from which the Latin version has been made) was read at the Council of Nicea II. ↩