Pope Vigilius/papacy 537-555

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    Fix’d like a plan on his peculiar spot,
    To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    The Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)