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Bishop Ecclesiasticus Gadget

Abstract

Bishop Ecclesiasticus Google gadget from the AW! website. Ecclesiasticus babbles, sometimes quite funny, bible talk (bibble) better than any pastor! Add it to your own website, if you like it. The code on this page is given.

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This code yields “Ecclesiaticus”. Click and drag to copy it direct, or get it fresh from Google by clicking the link at the bottom left of the gadget which lets you put the code on your iGoogle space to find out more about it, play with it, and add the border you prefer, before you collect the code that lets you insert it into your pages.

Or collect the code to add this gadget to your webpage direct by clicking here:
Ecclesiasticus at Google.
and click “embed this gadget” to change settings to your own preferences.

Last uploaded: 05 October, 2008.

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Constantine the Great is the emperor who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire. He died in the year 335 AD. In the ninth century, the Donation of Constantine suddenly appeared. In it, Constantine, in gratitude for Pope Sylvester’s cure of Constantine’s leprosy, willed to him the entire Western Roman Empire, including Rome. Thereafter, popes used the Donation of Constantine to claim to be the secular rulers of Europe, and, through the Middle Ages, no one doubted the Donation was genuine. Carl Sagan explains:
“Lorenzo of Valla was one of the polymaths of the Italian Renaissance. A controversialist, crusty, critical, arrogant, a pedant, he was attacked by his contemporaries for sacrilege, impudence, temerity and presumption, among other imperfections. After he concluded that the Apostles’ Creed could not, on grammatical grounds, have been written by the twelve apostles, the Inquisition declared him a heretic, and only the intervention of his patron, Alfonso, King of Naples, prevented his immolation. Undeterred, in 1440, he published a treatise demonstrating that the Donation of Constantine is a crude forgery. The language in which it was written was to fourth century court Latin as Cockney was to the King’s English. Because of Lorenzo of Valla, the Roman Catholic Church no longer presses its claim to rule European nations because of the Donation of Constantine.”