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Link Between Turbulent of Rome (767-768 on Sede Vacante), Antipope Constantine II & Iconoclasm

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  Antipope Constantine II was blinded by Pope Stephen III guardsmen  Antipope Constantine II (Latin: Constantinus; died c. 769) was a Roman prelate who claimed the papacy from 28 June 767 to 6 August 768.  Constantine was born into a noble Roman family in Nepi near Viterbo. He was one of four brothers, of which the most prominent was Toto of Nepi . Toto, the papal governor and self-styled "Duke" of Nepi, began to position himself to take advantage of the expected death of Pope Paul I, and elevate his own candidate onto the papal throne. Christophorus, the primicerius of the notaries, forced Toto to take an oath to respect the traditional clerical method of papal elections . Toto, however, having retired to his estates in Nepi, with the help of Constantine and his other brothers collected troops from his duchy and other parts of Tuscany, in addition to arming a group of peasants to swell the numbers.  About why Toto expected for death of Pope Paul I, because Pope Paul...

The Truth About Good Friday Liturgy from Catholic Church

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  The prayer for the Jews in the pre-1955 Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday reads as follows :  " Let us pray also for the faithless Jews [perfidis Judaeis]: that Almighty God may remove the veil from their hearts; so that they too may acknowledge Jesus Christ our Lord. [No instruction to kneel or to rise is given, but immediately is said:] Almighty and eternal God, who dost not exclude from Thy mercy even Jewish faithlessness [Judaicam perfidiam]: hear our prayers, which we offer for the blindness of that people; that acknowledging the light of thy Truth, which is Christ, they may be delivered from their darkness . Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. " (Source: Liber Usualis Missæ et Officii pro Dominicis et Festis Duplicibus (in Latin), Rome and Tournai: Desclée, Lefebvre & Co., 1903, p. 356; Missale Romanum (PDF) (in Latin), Bonnæ ad Rhenum, 2005, pp. 221–222, ...