The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I

CHAPTER I.

THE HOLY SEE AND THE WANDERING OF THE NATIONS.

"Rome's ending seemed the ending of a world. If this our earth had in the vast sea sunk, Save one black ridge whereon I sat alone, Such wreck had seemed not greater. It was gone, That empire last, sole heir of all the empires, Their arms, their arts, their letters, and their laws. The fountains of the nether d...