Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida (?): Summary of the Papal Embassy to Constantinople in 1054

Pope Leo IX giving his blessing, Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, Ottmarsheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France.

A brief report from the papal embassy to Constantinople of the events which precipitated the Great Schism: the separation of great portions of the Eastern Church from union with the See of Rome. Image links to W. L. North translation.

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