“And there was darkness over all the earth.⁠ ⁠… And the sun was darkened.”

“And there was darkness over all the earth.⁠ ⁠… And the sun was darkened.”

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Linus was the immediate successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome, and Cletus of Linus. They were both martyrs of the first age of the Church. ↩

Sixtus and Pius were Popes and martyrs of the second age of the Church; Calixtus and Urban, of the third. ↩

On the right hand of the Pope the favored Guelfs, and on the left the persecuted Ghibellines. ↩