... certainty and horror to the ending of the world in the year one thousand. And during a dozenyears after Benedict was murdered, the cauldron of faction boiled and seethed in Rome. Then, in the ... dreamed of restoring Rome to the Eastern Empire, and of renewing the ancient office of Exarch forthemselves. Benedict stood in their way and was doomed. They chose their antipope, a Roman Cardinal, ... aline of sovereign Counts, ending in Peter, the first ancestor of the Colonna who took the name; and, from heralso, by the marriage of her second daughter, called Theodora like herself, the...