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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 26352764, member: 128351&quot;]As the Pontifex Maximus, the emperor was the only person who had the right to touch or even cancel something sacred. The vestal virgins were sacred, so sacred that nobody had the right to kill them or shed their blood, this is why they were executed by being buried alive... </p><p>The Pont. Max. was the only male who could enter the temple of Vesta and the House of Vestal virgins. He was the only one who could not only see the Palladium, the holiest and most sacred relic of Rome, kept in the temple of Vesta, but also touch it and move it. Under the Republic the Pont. Max. could destitute a plebeian tribune, who was sacrosanctus for everybody else. In the Catholic Church the Pontifex Maximus is the Pope, the only authority that can cancel a catholic marriage which is a sacrament mere mortals just cannot dissolve. The calendar is sacred too. This is why only a Pontifex Maximus can change it. This has been done twice, by Julius Caesar and by Pope Gregory XIII, both being Pont. Max. </p><p><br /></p><p>By marrying a vestal virgin, who was sacred, and even moving the Palladium from the temple of Vesta to his own palace on the Palatine hill, the emperor Elagabalus just claimed his right as Pontifex Maximus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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