Three Popes from the Ghetto Delineated by Joachim Prinz
Dr. Joachim Prinz was moved,
It led him to a study of the
even before coming here from Ger- Vatican and of the popes and the
many more than 30 years ago, to result is a book that will surely
delve into the problem of Christians arouse much attention. Dr. Prinz's
who stemmed from Jews, of those "Popes From the Ghetto," publish-
whose parents and grandparents ed by Horizon Press (156' 5th,
had become converts to Christian- NY 10), is subtitled "A View of
ity but whose offspring continued Medieval Christendom."
to be viewed as "non-Aryans" un-
Actually, his story is more about
der Nazi rule. There were those the latter and the popes who stem:
with letter "J" on their passports med from Jews merely emphasize
and he asked the question: "Was the story. Both are, of course,
Jewish fate still inescapable, even strongly- inter-related in this
in the 20th Century?"
splendid account, and it is because
of the review given of the entire
history of the popes in Medieval
times that his book acquires spe-
cial significance.
This is the story of the Pier-
leone family whose ancestor
Baruch and his entire family
accepted all the negations that
went with certain conversion
rules to accept Christianity, with
a view that a member of that
family should one day preside
over the Vatican. It is the story
of Popes Gregory VI, Gregory
Knows His
VII and Anaclet II and of the
related Frangipani family, the
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noble group whose ancestors
also were Jews.
Dr. Prinz points out: "Within
but a hundred years this family,
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often despised by the people who
could never forget their Jewish
origin and even by clergymen who
remembered the Jewish Baruch
aid 86.fig Nis
when it served their purposes, con-
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tributed to the Church three
Popes: Ioannes Gratianus (John
Gratian), who was Gregory VI
(1045-46); Hildebrand, who be-
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came Gregory VII (1073-85); and
Peter Pierleone, who as Pope
assumed . the name of Anaclet II
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(1130-38). Their lives were turbu-
lent and difficult, but each of
them made his contribution to the
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growth of the Church and the de-
velopment of the Papacy."
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Dr. Prinz writes about them inter
alia:
"Strangely enough, although the
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Pierleone f a m i l y intermarried
(even Baruch is thought to have
married a Frangipane), they still
looked Jewish—"more like a Jew
or Saracen than a Christian" Med-
ieval chroniclers say of all of them,
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even of Gregory VII, who might
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have been related to them only by
(Illinois)
marriage. The weight of the evi-
dence seems, however, to favor
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a blood relationship. "No doubt,"
(Wisconsin)
says Pietro Fedele, . the great
Italian medievalist who devoted_ his
We handle all details of resort
life to the study of the Pierleone,_
"Hildebrand's mother was a Pier-
reservations; these and many
others.
leone, if we are to believe . the
Annals of Pegau in which Gregory
• We have the right spot for
VII is said to be a nephew on his
singles, marrieds, families and
mother's side of Peter de Leone
senior citizens.
(Petrus Leonis, the grandson of
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Baruch). But even if these state-
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ments in the Annals were not cor-
rect, it would always have great
weight in our assertion that Hilde-
brand had the closest family ties
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to Maria on the Avantine. We the Popes are unconvincing. The
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Three So-
know that young Hildebrand lived trickeries do not lend to belief
viet scientists arrived in Israel to
with his uncle, the abbot of this that they had risen above the
monastery, where he was educated low standards of the times of
study local agricultural tech-
and brought up on the monastic their domination. But the nu- niques in combating plant pests.
discipline. The relationship be- merous insults leveled at them as
The three, who conferred imme-
tween Gregory VI (John Gratian) ,Jews show that their background
diately
on their arrival with Agri-
and Hildebrand is well known.
was not forgotten in prejudiced
culture Minister Haim Gvati, are
When Gregory VI went into exile, quarters.
Hildebrand, albeit reluctantly, fol-
The concluding paragraph in Dr. Y. Gussayev of Leningrad;
lowed him to Germany. After Prinz's book states: - "During the Dr. H. Hadihyelly of Georgia, a -
Gregory's death he inherited his reign of Anaclet, a new synagogue woman scientist; and Dr. Tryapit-
fortune; he felt such gratitude for was built in the Ghetto (of Rome) sin of the Soviet Academy of
his master and protector that he on the Via dell 'Atleta where it Sciences.
During their visit here, which
took his name, Gregory, when he can still be seen today. Could it
became Pope. There is no other be that the same Jews who had was first proposed by Gvati in talks
plausible explanation for this in- greeted him so fervently on the with Soviet Ambassador Dimitri
timate relationship between Hilde- day of his coronation at the Palace Chuvakhin, the three scientists
brand and the arch priest of San of Chromatius said the ancient will study particularly biological
Giovanni (John Gratian) than that , prayer El Male Rachamim for him anti-pest methods at the Agricul-
they were related to each other _the Jewish prayer of the dead?" tore Ministry's Plant Protection
. . . It is because they were both This is sensationalizing the story Department.
Pierleone that Hildebrand inherit- ! a bit and fictionalizing the tale
ed John Gratian's fortune. It is . about the three Popes. Neverthe-
for the same reason that Hilde- less, the revelations included in
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brand's parents attached him to 1 Dr. Prinz's "Popes From The
John Gratian and that he followed Ghetto" are most interesting —
l(thING
the Pope into exile - in 1046."
1 more in reference to the Papacy
is abToAuLt
Much of the avarice, the im- ', itself than to the three Jewish
FABULOUS
morality of the eras during which Pbpes.
the Popes who are described in
this book is part of the Prinz
record. It is difficult to see what
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he delineates. They were part of
the schemes and intrigues that
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