...words of his shine all down the pages of history, grander than the grandest conquests it records:—" I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore I die in exile." Noble, sainted Pontiff, pray for your successor now! 'Twere long to tell all the benefits rendered...

...confounded with the artful demagogue. As his eyes closed in their last slumber, he faintly murmured : " I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile." " Die in exile," said a devout attendant, "thou canst not die in exile. Vicar of Christ and his Holy...

...performers. Gregory the Seventh passed away at Salerno in AD i087, exclaiming with his last breath " I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile." Twenty years later, in AD ii06, Henry IV died, dethroned by an unnatural son, whom the hatred of a...

...original performers. Gregory VII. passed away at Salerno in AD 1087, exclaiming with his last breath, "I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile :" twenty years later, in AD HO6, Henry IV. died, dethroned by an unnatural son whom the hatred of...

...herculean labors of his self-devoted and mighty career, crushed by an accumulation of hardships, said : " I have loved justice and hated iniquity ; therefore I die in exile." It is impossible to ascribe a slight importance to the moral lesson taught by the consenting sighs...

...superiority of the spiritual over the secular power, died in exile at Salerno, AD j o§5T exclaiming, ' I have loved justice, and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile !' Twenty years later, the Emperor, after a long reign, extending over half a century, died of a broken...

...of the people. Gregory nerer again entered Rome, but retired to Salerno, •where he died saying, " I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile." On the death of Gregory VII., Victor III. was elected Pope. But conflicts still continued, the anti-Pope...

...ecclesiastical spirit so often engender. Yet there was truth as well as untruth in his dying words, " I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile." In him, and in his great successor Innocent III., there still remain certain Christian virtues and...

...into his rest. His last words were full of a divine wisdom and patience. As he was dying he said, ' I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile.' His faithful attendant answered, ' Vicar of Christ, an exile thou canst never be, for to thee God has...

...escorted to Salerno by Robert, where he died in the year one thousand and eighty-five ; his last words, " I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile." The view from the terrace-garden of this convent is very beautiful. Through a vista of ilex trees the...