Hic est Bonifatius, quartus a beato Gregorio Romanae urbis episcopo, qui impetravit a Focate principe, donari ecclesiae Christi templum Romae quod Pantheon vocabatur ab antiquis, quasi simulacrum esset omnium deorum: in quo ipse eliminata omni spurcitia, fecit ecclesiam sanctae Dei genetricis, atque omnium martyrum Christi; ut exclusa multitudine daemonum, multitudo ibi sanctorum memoriam haberet.
This is the Boniface which was the 4th bishop of Rome after blessed Gregory, who by earnest suit obtained of the emperor Focas a temple at Rome to be granted to the Church of Christ, which temple of ancient time was called Pantheon, as it were to stand for all the gods: out of which temple this Boniface casting forth all filthiness made a church therein in the honour of the holy mother of God and all the martyrs of Christ beside; that the army of devils being shut put thence, the army of martyrs might have there memorial.
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