Pope Honorius I
Honorius I was
pope from
625 to
638. The festival of the Elevation of the Cross is said to have been instituted during his pontificate, which was marked also by considerable missionary enterprise. Honorius in his lifetime had favoured the formula proposed by the emperor
Heraclius with the design of bringing about a reconciliation between the
Monophysites and the
Catholics, which bore that Christ had accomplished His work of redemption by one manifestation of his will as the God-man. For this he was, more than forty years after his death, anathematized by name along with the other
Monothelite heretics by the
Council of Constantinople (First Trullan) in
680; and this condemnation was subsequently confirmed by more than one pope, particularly by
Leo II as has been abundantly proved by unimpeachable evidence against the contentions of Baronius and
Bellarmine.
Original text taken from a paper copy of
the 9th edition EB; 1881