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==Death and legacy== Pope Zachary died around 15 March 752 (it may also have been the 12th or 14th)<ref name="miranda">{{cite web |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |url=http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios732.htm#Zaccaria |url-status=dead |access-date=9 July 2015}}</ref> and was buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica]]. His elected successor, [[Pope-elect Stephen|Stephen]], died within days, and Zachary was finally succeeded by [[Pope Stephen II|Stephen II]]. The letters and decrees of Zachary are published in [[Jacques Paul Migne]], ''[[Patrologia Latina|Patrolog. lat.]]'' lxxxix. p. 917β960.<ref name=EB1911/> Church historian [[Johann Peter Kirsch]] said of Zachary: "In a troubled era Zachary proved himself to be an excellent, capable, vigorous, and charitable successor of Peter."<ref name=kirsch/> [[Peter Partner]] called Zachary a skilled diplomat, "perhaps the most subtle and able of all the Roman pontiffs, in this dark corridor in which the Roman See hovered just inside the doors of the Byzantine world."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bZ6eJuZfTAEC&dq=Guy+III+of+Spoleto&pg=PA1 Partner, Peter. ''The Lands of St. Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance'', University of California Press, 1972, p. 17], {{ISBN|9780520021815}}</ref>
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