pauper-masses

Updated: June 22, 2025

Gregory the Great feeding the pauper-masses of Rome, on the first day of every month, from the fruitful corn-bearing estates in Sicily; keeping up the 'Panem; but substituting, thank Heaven, for the 'Circenses' at least the services of the Church. Of course, the man who could keep the Roman people alive must needs become, ipso facto, their monarch.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge