Chapter XI

SOME BISHOPS, KINGS, POPES, AND INQUISITORS.

Unity of the Clergy, 326; Supremacy of Pope, 326; Election of Popes,
328; Dress of Cardinals, 328; The Degraded Bishop, 329; Emperor and
the First Abdication, 330; Bishop Building Workhouse, 330; Bishops
Striving for a Site, 331; How Bishops were Made, 331; Fifth-century
Bishop, 332; Putting Down Soothsayers, 338; Bishop Releasing
Prisoners, 334; The King of the Gauls, 334; Pope Getting Rid of
Pestilence, 335; Choosing Archbishop, 335; Pope Gregory and the
Emperor, 336; John the Almsgiver, 337; Giving a Bishop a Horse, 338; A
Christian's Scruples, 339; A Model Churchman, 339; Why Pope's Foot
Kissed, 340; Agobard of Lyons, 340; St. Swithin, 341; King Alfred,
341; King Alfred's Love of Reading, 342; Bishop at Head of Troops,
343; Two Scapegrace Popes, 344; The Ugliest Archbishop, 345; Bishop
and Emperor's Jokes, 345; King Canute, 346; Peasant Rebuking Bishop,
347; St. Margaret of Scotland, 348; Death of William the Conqueror,
348; English King Marrying Nun, 350; Awaking Bishop for Mass, 351;
Anselm, Archbishop, 351; Saracen King by Divine Right, 352; Archbishop
Turstin, 353; King John and the Bishop, 354; St. Thomas à Becket, 355;
Monk Describes Papal Interdict, 356; Pope Punishing Kings, 357; Candid
Friend to Pope, 358; Excommunication of Emperor, 359; Emperor
Retaliating on Pope, 360; Pope's Clerks Extorting Money, 360; Aerial
Music at Bishop's Death, 362; Fool Posing Theologians, 362; Hermit for
Pope, 363; Philip the Fair and the Pope, 364; Pope of Fourteenth
Century, 365; Wicliff, the Reformer, 365; The Popes at Avignon, 366;
The Rival Popes, 367; Three Popes at one Time, 368; Pope John XXIII.,
370; Owl Attending a Council, 370; Sale of Indulgences, 371; Bishop
Inviting his Old Master, 372; Sultan who Abdicated, 372; Pope Nicholas
V., 373; Fop Elected Pope, 374; Pope Leo X., 375; Turning Pagan into
Christian Monuments, 376; The Inquisition, 377; Spanish Inquisition at
Work, 379; Torquemada, 379; An Auto-da-Fè in Spain, 380; Assassination
of Inquisitor, 380; Cardinal Ximenes, 381; Irrepressible Heretics,
382; Waldenses, 382; Lawyer for Pope, 383.

CHAPTER XII.

SACRED LEGENDS.

Lives of Saints, 385; Christian Legends, 385; How Legends Grow, 386;
Thundering Legion, 387; The Theban Legion, 387; The Divining Rod, 387;
St. George and the Dragon, 388; St. Christina, 389; St. Christopher,
389; Hallelujah Victory, 391; Prophecies of Merlin, 391; Devil Showing
a Book, 392; Wandering Jew, 392; St. Sabas, 393; Theophilus and the
Devil, 393; Holy Grail, 394; Seven Sleepers, 394; Little Blind Herve,
395; Supper of St. Gregory, 395; St. Gregory Releasing Trajan, 395;
St. Bega, 397; St. Fructuosus and the Doe, 397; Pope Joan, 398; Bishop
Hatto, 398; St. Conrad, 399; The Piper of Hameln, 399; Lady Godiva,
399; Sacred Fire in Greek Church, 400; Superstitions of the Greek
Church, 401; Prester John, 401; Loretto, 401; King Richard I.'s Story,
402; St. Francis and his Love of Birds, 403; Bonaventura, on St.
Francis, 405; St. Antony Preaching to the Fishes, 406; St. Roch, 407.