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	Pope Sergius III Information
		Sergius III, scion of Benedictus, of a noble Roman family, reigned in two intervals between 897 and April 14, 911, during a period of feudal violence and disorder in central Italy, where the Papacy was a pawn of warring aristocratic factions.
		Sergius III owed his rise to the power of his patron, the military commander Theophylact, Count of Tusculum who held the position of vestarius in control of the disbursements at the top of papal patronage.
		Sergius III honoured pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had been responsible for the infamous "Cadaver Synod" that had condemned and mutilated the corpse of Pope Formosus, and placed a laudatory remark on Stephen VI's tombstone.
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	Pope Sergius III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pope Sergius III, scion of Benedictus, of a noble Roman family, reigned in two intervals between 897 and April 14, 911, during a period of feudal violence and disorder in central Italy, where the Papacy was a pawn of warring aristocratic factions.
		Sergius owed his rise to the power of his patron, the military commander Theophylact, Count of Tusculum who held the position of vestarius in control of the disbursements at the top of papal patronage.
		Elected Pope in 897, Sergius was forcibly exiled by Lambert, duke of Spoleto, and all the official records were destroyed; consequently most of the surviving documentation about Sergius comes from his opponents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Sergius_III (357 words)

	Pope Sergius III -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sergius owed his rise to the power of his patron, the military commander (additional info and facts about Theophylact, Count of Tusculum) Theophylact, Count of Tusculum who held the position of vestarius in control of the disbursements at the top of papal patronage.
		Elected Pope in 897, Sergius was forcibly exiled by (additional info and facts about Lambert, duke of Spoleto) Lambert, duke of Spoleto, and all the official records were destroyed; consequently most of the surviving documentation about Sergius comes from his opponents.
		Sergius restored the (The residence of the Pope until the 14th century) Lateran Palace, which had been shattered by an earthquake in (additional info and facts about 896) 896.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/pope_sergius_iii2.htm (322 words)

	ST SERGIUS - LoveToKnow Article on ST SERGIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		SERGIUS II., pope from 844 to 847, a Roman of noble birth, elected by the clergy and people to succeed Gregory IV., was forthwith consecrated without waiting for the sanction of the emperor Lothair, who accordingly sent his son Louis with an army to punish the breach of faith.
		.SERGIUS III., elected pope by one of the factions in Rome in 898, simultaneously with John IX., was expelled from the city by his adversaries.
		Sergius is reputed to have been the lover of Theodora's daughter Marozia, by whom he is said to have had a son, who became pope as John XI.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SERGIUS_ST.htm (1009 words)

	Pope Sergius III
		Thus it is by an enemy that we are told that Sergius was made Bishop of Caere by Formosus in order that he might never become Bishop of Rome.
		Sergius at once declared the ordinations conferred by Formosus null; but that he put his two predecessors to death, and by illicit relations with Marozia had a son, who was afterwards John XI, must be regarded as highly doubtful.
		Liber Pontif., II, 236; Letters of Sergius in P.L., CXXXI; Letters of St. Nicholas I, the Mystic in LABBE, Concil., IX, 1246 sqq.; FEDELE, Ricerche per la storia di Roma e del papato nel secolo X in Archivio Rom.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/sergius_iii,pope.html (353 words)

	Sergius
		Sergius was born around 1314, the son of a farmer.
		It was the remonstrance, the prayers of Sergius, that encouraged the Prince to engage in battle with the horde on the fields of the Don.
		In 1480, when Ivan III wavered, as Demetrius had wavered before him, it was by the remonstrance of Archbishop Bassian, formerly prior of the Troitzka monastery, that Ivan too was driven, almost against his will, to the field.
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	List of Popes (Our Lady of Good Health Mission) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He even went so far as to appoint Felix III (IV) in 526 as the successor of Pope John I, whose death was due to the incarceration to which the king had condemned him.
		In 769 a council was held under Stephen III to rectify the confusion caused by the intrusion of the antipope Constantine.
		iii, "De elect.", in 60 (I, 6)], by which it was ordained that during the election of a pontiff the cardinals should be secluded from the world under exceedingly stringent regulations, and that the seclusion should continue till they had fulfilled their duty of providing the Church with a supreme pastor.
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	The Ecole Glossary
		Sergius was present at Stephen VI/VII's condemnation of Formosus and accepted demotion to deacon.
		Sergius decreed that all clergy ordained by Formosus were not real clergy and any clergy ordained by someone whom Formosus had ordained was not real.
		A favorite of Theophylact and his wife Theodora, Sergius is supposed to have been the father of John XI, the son of Marozia, Theophylact's 15-year-old daughter.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/sergiusiii.html (220 words)

	Pope Paul III Summary
		Paul III was in earnest in the matter of improving the ecclesiastical situation, and on June 2, 1536, he issued a papal bull convoking a general council to sit at Mantua in 1537.
		With reference to the assassinated prince's inheritance, the restitution of which Paul III demanded ostensibly in the name and for the sake of the Church, the Pope's design was thwarted by the Emperor, who refused to surrender Piacenza, and by Pier Luigi's heir in Parma, Ottavio Farnese.
		Paul III proved unable to suppress the Protestant Reformation, although it was during his pontificate that the foundation was laid for the Counter-Reformation.
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	KOLBE'S GREATEST BOOKS: POPE SERGIUS III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		However, he seems to have ceased to act as a bishop after the death of Formosus, and was put forward as a candidate for the papacy in 898.
		Sergius at once declared the ordinations conferred by Formosus null; but that he put his two predecessors to death, and by illicit relations with Marozia had a son, who was afterwards John XI, must be regarded as highly doubtful.
		Liber Pontif., II, 236; Letters of Sergius in P.L., CXXXI; Letters of St. Nicholas I, the Mystic in LABBE, Concil., IX, 1246 sqq.; FEDELE, Ricerche per la storia di Roma e del papato nel secolo X in Archivio Rom.
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	Pope Sergius III
		Sergius III was elected pope by one of the factions in Rome in 898, simultaneously with John IX, only to be expelled from the city by his adversaries.
		Sergius is reputed to have been the lover of Theodora's daughter Marozia, by whom he is said to have had a son, who became Pope John XI.
		Unlike John IX and his successors, Sergius was very hostile to the memory of Pope Formosus, and refused to recognize any of the ordinations celebrated by him, thus causing grave disorders.
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	The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History - Professor Wilkes - University of Georgia School of Law
		Sergius III, who was pope from 904 to 911, reversed the decisions of the synods of Theodore II and John IX by convening a synod which quashed their invalidations of the Cadaver Synod and reaffirmed Formosus's conviction and sentence.
		Sergius III even went so far as to place an epitaph on the tomb of Stephen VII which lauded that evident madman and heaped scorn on Formosus.
		Sergius III, it will be recalled, was also the only pope to order the murder of another pope, and also the only pope to father an illegitimate son who became a pope.
	www.law.uga.edu /academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/his31_cadaver.html (1650 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pope Sergius III
		Theodora was a senatrix of Rome, mother of Marozia, and concubine to Pope Sergius III, whose pontificate, so far as is known, was remarkable for nothing but the rise of the pornocracy of Theodora and her daughters, a period also called the Rule of the Harlots.
		Events Accession of Sergius III Destruction of Changan, the capital of Tang Dynasty and the largest city in the ancient world.
		Anastasius III, pope from 911-913, was a Roman by birth.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pope-Sergius-III (1030 words)

	Biologie - Sergius III. (Papst) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Da Sergius' Bild wesentlich von dem kaisertreuen Geschichtsschreiber Liutprand von Cremona überliefert ist, lassen sich in den Aussagen über ihn historische Wahrheit und Propaganda nur schwer auseinander halten.
		Nach dem Sturz von Papst Christophorus wurde Sergius diesmal in Übereinstimmung mit den kanonischen Recht zum Papst gewählt.
		In Sergius' Amtszeit fällt auch der Wiederaufbau der 897 durch ein Erdbeben zerstörten Lateranbasilika.
	www.biologie.de /biowiki/Sergius_III._%28Papst%29 (430 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Sergius III
		Hence, unfortunately, most of our knowledge of Sergius is derived from his opponents.
		Thus it is by an enemy that we are told that Sergius was made Bishop of Caere by
		Formosus null; but that he put his two predecessors to death, and by illicit relations with Marozia had a son, who was afterwards John XI, must be regarded as highly doubtful.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13729a.htm (349 words)

	Pope Anastasius III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anastasius III, pope from September 911 to November 913, was a Roman by birth.
		He was allegedly the illegitimate son of his predecessor Pope Sergius III.
		Practically nothing is recorded of him, his pontificate falling in the period when Rome and the Papacy were in the power of Theophylact, Count of Tusculum and his wife Marozia, who approved Anastasius' candidacy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Anastasius_III (117 words)

	SERGIUS III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is said that Formosus had consecrated Sergius bishop of Caere to prevent him from becoming pope.
		Sergius is even accused of having a son by Marozia, the daughter of Theophylactus, a son who became Pope John XI.
		Sergius seems to have been a hard-working pope, and except for his unfortunate policy against the party of Formosus, a fairly wise one.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp120.htm (449 words)

	Used Car
		After Leo III escaped from the monastery in which he had been imprisoned, Charlemagne made a show of strength in the Rome and an assembly agreed to drop all charges against Leo III, thereby clearing the way for a magnificent celebration of Christ’s birth.
		Sergius III (904-911), at the age of 45, seduced 15-year-old Marozia, mother of Theodora, in Lateran Palace.
		Victor III (1086-1087) acknowledged that, throughout Italy, clerics from bishops down, without shame or concealment, were married, lived with their wives openly and generally provided for their offspring in their wills.
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	EUROPEAN HISTORY 900 - 979
		Sergius III a Roman staged a revolution and imprisoned Christopher bishop of Rome, eventually murdering him and Leo bishop of Rome.
		Sergius bishop of Rome issued a canon to Constantinople disregarding the strictness of eastern canon law causing confusion and controversy.
		Marozia Mistress of Sergius III bishop of Rome imprisoned John X bishop of Rome effectively taking control of Rome for her son John XI bishop of Rome and also dominated the Curia.
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	Pope Sergius III - meaning of word
		Pope Sergius III, scion of Benedictus, of a noble Roman family, reigned in two intervals between 897 and April 14, 911, during a period of feudalism violence and disorder in central Italy, where the Papacy was a pawn of warring aristocratic factions.
		Sergius owed his rise to the power of his patron, the military commander Theophylact, Count of Tusculum who held the position of ''vestarius'' in control of the disbursements at the top of papal patronage.
		Elected Pope in 897, Sergius was forcibly exiled by Duchy of Spoleto, and all the official records were destroyed; consequently most of the surviving documentation about Sergius comes from his opponents.
	wordsonline.org /Pope_Sergius_III (408 words)

	Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The TENTH Century
		He was a Roman of aristocratic birth and served as Deacon under Pope Stephen V. Pope Sergius III was a Roman from a Noble family.
		Sergius III was a Defender of "filoque", and ruled that the Emperor Leo's fourth marriage valid, restoring peace to Constantinople.
		He was the bastard son of Pope Sergius III and at this time, the All Powerful Senatrix, Marozia.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/6461/10cent.html (2369 words)

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		Father Sergius was standing in his usual place and praying: that is, he was in that condition of struggle which always occupied him during the service, especially in the large church when he was not himself conducting the service.
		Sergius saw that he was a means of attracting visitors and contributions to the monastery, and that therefore the authorities arranged matters in such a way as to make as much use of him as possible.
		Father Sergius remained seated on the bench at the entrance and when she was passing and stopped beside him for his blessing he was aghast at himself for the way he looked at her figure.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/tolstoy/sergius.thm (15000 words)

	Sergius (1314-1392)
		Sergius has been revered for centuries in the Eastern Church as a national hero and as the patron saint of Russia.
		Sergius remained there in a contemplative life for 58 years, refusing many honours including becoming bishop of Moscow.
		Dimitri and Sergius remained powerful symbols, however: the people saw Dimitri as proof that the Tatars were not invincible, and Sergius as proof that God was on their side.
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		SIXTUS III 432 - 440 Sixtus was one of those gentle souls who seem to exist for the purpose of binding wounds and healing bruises.
		Mary Major but he obtained from Emperor Valentinian III a golden image adorned with jewels on which the twelve apostles were represented.
		FELIX III 526 - 530 When Theodoric learned that his victim, Pope St. John, had died in prison he took measures to ensure that the next pope would be friendly.
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		The envoys whom Sergius sent to Constantinople, disregarding the greater strictness of eastern canon law and its antipathy to tetragamy, gave a verdict approving Leo's 4th marriage, with the result that Nicholas was deposed and exiled and the eastern church entered on a period of confusion and controversy.
		Sergius also overturned John IX's Roman and Ravenna synods of 898, [which forbad the trial of corpses!!!], and he reaffirmed the "cadaver synod's" condemnation of Formosus; once again, he declared null and void the orders Formosus had conferred (including Sixtus III's own consecration as bishop); the resulting confusion was indescribable.
		Lucius III {169th P.} On the matter of clergy schismatically ordained during Alexander III's reign, Lucius was at first disposed to grant Frederick I Barbarossa's request for their restoration, but then he ruled that this could only be decided by a general council.
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	Pope Martin I - The Catholic Wiki Project
		The "Ecthesis" of Heraclius and the "Typus" of Constans II were rejected; nominal excommunication was passed against Sergius, Pyrrus, and Paul of Constantinople, Cyrus of Alexandria and Theodore of Phran in Arabia; twenty canons were enacted defining the Catholic doctrine on the two wills of Christ.
		The decrees signed by the pope and the assembled bishops were sent to the other bishops and the faithful of the world together with an encyclical of Martin.
		From Abydos messengers were sent to the imperial city to announce the arrival of the prisoner who was branded as a heretic and rebel, an enemy of God and of the State.
	www.thecatholicwiki.com /wiki/Pope_Martin_I (1084 words)

	Rejection of Pascal's Wager: Popes Throughout History
		Innocent III (1198-1216) was by all definitions a pious pope; deeply concerned with the problems of the Muslims, Jews and heresies.
		Pope Alexander III (in office 1159-1181) had the dubious distinction of being one of the first popes to order the use of force against heresies.
		Paul's successor Pope Julius III (in office 1550-1555) was another typical Renaissance pope; a lover of pleasure, a glutton and a heavy gambler.
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