result. He attributes the restoration of the unity of the Church to the paternal patience, vigilance, and care of the Holy Father. "We confess," he says, "that directly we had seen Your letter announcing these good tidings, we were filled with joy. Oh! the wonderful goodness of God! Oh! His wondrous loving kindness! which has allowed us in our days to witness the healing of the divisions of our Mother Church His Spouse, caused so many ages back by the sins of men, and which during many generations seemed beyond all remedy. Oh! how many kings and princes have desired to see what we now behold!"
Henry adds that he looks upon this as an earnesl of future blessings, and that he has already given orders for public prayers and processions in thanksgiving to God.[1] When a short time after this the news came that the Armenians had also been reconciled to the One Church, the King again wrote to the Pope expressing his joy. "The submission of the Greeks," he says, "was indeed a blessed work, and this bringing back of other sheep, long wandering outside of the Church's fold, crowns the work. By the labour of your
- ↑ Beckynton Correspondence, p. 50.
