Tunc Bonifatius consiliarius apostolici papae, et alii perplures qui eum temporibus Agathonis papae ibi viderant, dicebant ipsum esse episcopum qui nuper Romam accusatus a suis atque ab apostolica sede iudicandus advenerit: Qui iamdudum, inquiunt, aeque accusatus huc adveniens, mox audita ac diiudicata causa et controversia utriusque partis, a beatae memoriae papa Agathone probatus est contra fas a suo episcopatu repulsus; et tanti apud eum habitus est, ut ipsum in concilio quod congregaret episcoporum, quasi virum incorruptae fidei et animi probi residere praeciperet.
Then Boniface, counsellor to the apostolical pope, and many other which had seen him there in pope Agathos time, said that he was the bishop which was accused of his own countrymen and came of late to Rome to be judged by the see apostolic: Who, quoth they, long since having come hither on like accusation, after the cause and controversy between the two parties had presently been heard and examined, was concluded by pope Agatho of blessed memory to have been wrongfully deprived of his bishopric; and was had in such estimation of the pope that he commanded him to sit in the council of bishops, that he was assembling, as a man of unblemished faith and upright mind.
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