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PASCHAL I

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PASCHAL I ., See also:pope from 817 to 824, a native of See also:Rome, was raised to the pontificate by the See also:acclamation of the See also:clergy, shortly after the See also:death of See also:Stephen IV., and before the See also:sanction of the See also:emperor (See also:Louis the Pious) had been obtained—a circumstance for which it was one of his first cares to apologize. His relations with the imperial See also:house, however, never became cordial; and he was also unsuccessful in winning the sympathy of the See also:Roman nobles. He died in Rome while the imperial commissioners were investigating the circumstances under which two important Roman personages had been seized at the Lateran, blinded and afterwards beheaded; Paschal had shielded the murderers but denied all See also:personal complicity in their See also:crime. The Roman See also:people refused him the See also:honour of See also:burial within the See also:church of St See also:Peter, but he now holds a See also:place in the Roman See also:calendar (May 16). The church of St See also:Cecilia in Trastevere was restored and St Maria in See also:Dominica rebuilt by him; he also built the church of St Prassede. The successor of Paschal I. was See also:Eugenius II. (L.

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