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Leo I., in 432, took the same position, and it was confirmed by Gelasius I. and a council of Rome towards the end of the century.

Gelasius I., Bishop of Rome, § 46, 8; 47, 22.

Gelasius I., pope from 492 to 496, was the successor of Felix III.

Basic Catholic doctrine on the ordering of society was laid down by Pope Gelasius I in a letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I in 494: "Two there are, august Emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right�the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power."

The 8th-century Gelasian Sacramentary, which embodies a much older tradition, mentions it under the title of Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which has led some to suppose that it was ordained by Pope Gelasius I. in 4921 as a counter-attraction to the heathen Lupercalia; but for this there is no warrant.