By Theresa Romain
"""Theresa Romain writes with a delightfully romantic aptitude that would set your middle on fire."" -Julianne MacLean, united states this present day bestselling authorOne solid proposition merits another...Heiress Augusta Meredith can't support herself-she stirs up gossip anyplace she is going. A stranger to tub society, she pretends to be a captivating younger widow, until eventually sardonic, darkly good-looking Joss Everett arrives from London and uncovers her charade.Augusta persuades Joss to maintain her mystery in trade for a mystery of his personal. Weaving their manner in the course of the treacherous pitfalls of a well mannered international merely too desirous to disclose and condemn them, they start to work out that being real to themselves isn't really so bad...as lengthy as they're actual to every other...Praise for To appeal a Naughty Countess: ""A love tale that isn't simply captivating, yet joyous.""-RT e-book Reviews""So captivating and endearing...I dropped the opposite books i used to be studying once i began this one.""-Sonya's Stuff
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Or Ignace a été nommé direc tement par Théodora. Il a été imposé au synode par une femme, et promu patriarche par la volonté d'une femme. « Le seigneur Taraise lui-même, répondit Ignace, a été promu patriarche par une femme ». « Ne dis pas une femme, rétorqua 38 CONSTANTINOPLE IV Michel III, car c'était une femme-empereur quand le seigneur Méthode et le seigneur Taraise furent faits patriarches » *. A la fin de la session, les commissaires impériaux eurent beau inviter Ignace à donner sa démission, c'est-à-dire à recon naître l'invalidité de son élection, ils ne purent le convaincre.
Le canon 3 réduisait à l'état laïc tous ceux que « le néophyte Photius, ravisseur du siège de Constantinople » avait élevés à une dignité ecclésiastique quelconque. A propos d'Ignace, le synode ordonnait et proclamait (can. 4), « de par l'autorité du juge suprême Jésus-Christ », qu'il n'était ni déposé ni anathématisé, n'ayant été chassé qu'en vertu de la puissance impériale et sans aucune autorité cano nique. « En vertu de la puissance octroyée par Dieu à saint Pierre », il était réintégré « dans son ancienne dignité, dans son rang et son patriarcat ».
C'est ainsi que la longue lettre que nous allons résumer a été rédigée par l'ancien cardinal-prêtre sur qui pesait encore une quadruple sentence de déposition. Dans sa résistance acharnée aux injonctions de Rome, le patriarche Photius trouve ainsi, paradoxalement, en l'antipape d'hier un adversaire à sa taille. La lettre pontificale * Proposueramus ». L'offensive de l'empereur byzantin, en obligeant le pape « à accorder sa lyre », comme écrit Nicolas, « à l'ire » de son correspondant, a eu comme heureux résultat de provoquer un document de première importance pour l'histoire de la pri mauté romaine et celle des rapports entre l'Église et l'État**.