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gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Rufinus and April (494). A similar decree concerning two serfs of Maxima, an illustrious and magnificent lady, who have been ordained as deacons in violation of the laws of princes and the rules of the fathers. The agents of Maxima have complained to Rome that Silvester and Candidus, her serf …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to the bishops throughout Dardania (495). Because some persons are not ashamed to disturb ecclesiastical order through illicit ambition and to infringe the privileges which belong to metropolitans and provincial bishops, Gelasius decrees that the ancient custom must be observed: bishops are to be ordain …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to an Unknown Bishop (c. 495). A newly built church had been consecrated without the authority of the supreme pontiff, and Gelasius had accordingly suspended the celebration of the liturgy there. Now that the requisite authority has been obtained, he orders that the church be restored to divine worship. …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Zeja, Count (c. 495–496). Gelasius commends to Zeja the case of the clergymen Silvester and Faustinianus, who are pressing their claim to freedom before his jurisdiction. He reminds the count that it should always be gratifying to Christians to be asked to assist those with a just cause, and that it …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Herculentius, Stephanus, and Justus (494–496). Frequent and insistent complaints reach Gelasius about bishops who neither know the ancient canons nor obey his own decrees. This letter deals in particular with two serfs of Placidia, an illustrious lady, who have been ordained as deacons in vio …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
… y and to ensure that justice is done in accordance with both ecclesiastical and imperial law.
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to the clergy, order, and people of Brindisi (494). Having granted the Brindisians the bishop they requested — Julian, now his brother and fellow bishop — Gelasius sends Julian back immediately to his church together with this letter. He presents the formal letter (litterae formatae) indicating what Jul …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Laurentius, Bishop of Lychnidus (496). Having recently assumed the pontificate, Gelasius sends this letter as a kind of medicine for orthodoxy and, following the custom of his predecessors, despatches a statement of faith to the churches. He discusses the Acacian schism and the formula of faith that …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.01
The case of Coelestinus is of such a nature that I think you also are not unaware of it. Since this man, being conscious and convicted in the murder of his parent and bishop, as the tenor of the documents shows, was judged by the verdict of all to be by no means worthy of the office of the altar, and for so detestable …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Majoricus and John (496). Because of the double murder of bishops in the church of the Scyllacians (Squillace), Gelasius deprives that church of the right of having its own bishop and commits it to the visitation of Majoricus and John. He also strictly forbids the superstitious practice, atte …