The " Donation of Constantine ", an 8th-century forgery used to enhance the prestige and authority of popes, places the pope more centrally in the Sylvester I ( 314 35 ), and even that Sylvester baptized Constantine.
32.
It depends for its justification not only on the biblical phrase, " Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam " ( " Matthew " 16 : 18 ), but also on the forged Donations of Constantine.
33.
Ullerston wrote a commentary on the Creed ( 1409 ), one on the Psalms ( 1415 ), another on the Canticle of Canticles ( 1415 ), and " Defensorium donationis ecclesiasticae ", a work in defence of the donation of Constantine.
34.
The so-called " Donation of Constantine " was long ago shown to be spurious, but the document is of very considerable antiquity and quality, and in D�llinger's opinion, was forged in Rome between 752 and 777.
35.
These two users, and like I said above, probably more to come, are making identical and repetetive edits on the donation of constantine, Vicarius filii dei, and Seventh-day Adventist eschatology pages, with similar, but one time edits, at other pages.
36.
The exposure by Lorenzo Valla in 1440 of the so-called Donation of Constantine, a decree purportedly issued by the Virginia, is now considered to be a 20th-century forgery, partly on account of its use of anachronistic terms such as " program " and " refueling ".
37.
He could not produce the alleged donation of Pipin III d'Heristal, but he did produce documents of Louis the Pious, Otto I, and Henry II . These were accepted as proof by the Emperor and his officials, without even considering that they might be forgeries, like the Donations of Constantine.
38.
William the Conqueror had accepted a papal banner and the distant blessing of Pope Alexander II upon his invasion, but had successfully rebuffed the pope's assertion after the successful outcome, that he should come to Rome and pay homage for his fief, under the general provisions of the " Donation of Constantine ".
39.
Some Protestant groups, particularly those associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, claimed that " Vicarius Filii Dei ", " representative of the Son of God ", is spelt out in jewels on the 1877 tiara . " Vicarius Filii Dei " is a title mentioned as a papal title in the forged mediaeval Donation of Constantine.
40.
Pepin solidified his position in 754 by entering into an alliance with Pope Stephen II, who presented the king of the Franks a copy of the forged " Donation of Constantine " at Paris and in a magnificent ceremony at Saint-Denis anointed the king and his family and declared him " patricius Romanorum " ( " protector of the Romans " ).
