264,), and the criticisms of Pagi, (tom.iii.

A.D.

944.) The prudent Franciscan refuses to determine whether the image of Edessa now reposes at Rome or Genoa; but its repose is inglorious, and this ancient object of worship is no longer famous or fashionable.] [Footnote 17: (Nicetas, l.ii.p.

258.) The Armenian churches are still content with the Cross, (Missions du Levant, tom.iii.p.

148;) but surely the superstitious Greek is unjust to the superstition of the Germans of the xiith century.] Of such adventurers, the most fortunate was the emperor Leo the Third, [18] who, from the mountains of Isauria, ascended the throne of the East.