De his quos baptizavit, quos ordinavit
Acacius, majorum traditione confectam et veram, praecipue
religiosae solicitudini congruam praebemus sine difficultate
medicinam (Galacius, in epist. i. ad Euphemium, Concil.
tom. v. 286.).
The offer of a medicine proves the disease, and numbers must have perished before the arrival of the Roman physician. Tillemont himself (Mem. Eccles. tom. xvi. p. 372, 642, etc.) is shocked at the proud, uncharitable temper of the popes; they are now glad, says he, to invoke St. Flavian of Antioch, St. Elias of Jerusalem, etc., to whom they refused communion whilst upon earth. But Cardinal Baronius is firm and hard as the rock of St. Peter.