Resultados25 letters/passages
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
Book I, Letter 41 To Peter, Subdeacon [Gregory's delegate in Sicily]. Gregory to Peter. The venerable Paulinus, bishop of the city of Taurianum in Bruttium [the toe of the Italian peninsula, modern Calabria], has told us that his monks were scattered by barbarian invasions [likely Lombard raids] and are now wandering t …
gregory_great · c. 600 · score 0.02
Gregory to Maximus, Bishop of Salona. When our mutual friend the priest Veteranus arrived in Rome, he found me so weakened by gout that I could not personally answer your Fraternity's letters. Regarding the Slavic nation [the Slavs, who were pressing into the Balkans and threatening the Dalmatian coast], from which you …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
Book I, Letter 17 To all the Bishops of Italy. Gregory to all. The detestable Authari [king of the Lombards, the Germanic people who had invaded and occupied much of Italy] during this recently completed Easter season forbade the children of Lombards from being baptized in the Catholic faith. For this sin, God struck h …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Gregory to the Emperor Mauricius. Our most devout and God-appointed sovereign, among his many pressing cares, also watches over the preservation of peace among the clergy with genuine spiritual concern -- rightly and wisely recognizing that no one can govern earthly affairs well unless he knows how to handle the things …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Whatever it was my duty to do in humility, I have not neglected. But if I am disregarded in my reproof, I will have no choice but to bring the matter before the Church. May Almighty God show you, brother, how great a love for you constrains me in saying these things, and how deeply I grieve in this matter -- not agains …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
Book I, Letter 50 To Anthemius the Subdeacon [Gregory's administrative agent]. Gregory to Anthemius. Since God has seen fit to place the burden of governance upon us, we must be watchful for the souls entrusted to our care. We have learned that on the Eumorphian island [a small island off the Italian coast], where ther …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.01
Gregory to Hospito, Duke of the Barbaricini. Since no one else of your people is a Christian, I know you are better than all your kinsmen — for you alone among them have been found to be a Christian. While all the Barbaricini live like mindless animals, not knowing the true God but worshipping sticks and stones, the ve …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 79 To Martinus, Bishop in Corsica. Gregory to Martinus. When people ask for what is just, we should listen with a willing ear, so that petitioners may find the remedy they hope for and the Church is not left without a shepherd's care. Since the church of Tanates [a town in Corsica], where Your Fraternity …
gregory_great · c. 602 · score 0.01
Gregory to Eulogius, Patriarch of Alexandria. The bearers of this letter, arriving in Sicily, were converted from the error of the Monophysites [who held that Christ has only one nature, divine, rather than two] and united themselves to the holy universal Church. Having come to the church of the blessed Peter, Prince o …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Book II, Letter 3 To Velox, Magister Militum [a senior military commander]. Gregory to Velox. We informed Your Glory some time ago that soldiers were ready to be sent to your area. However, since your letter warned us that the enemy had assembled and was marching toward us, we held them back. Now it seems beneficial to …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.01
Book III, Letter 29 To the Priests and Clergy of Milan [one of the most important cities in northern Italy, close to Lombard-controlled territory]. Gregory to the priests, deacons, and clergy of the church of Milan. We have received your letter, which, though it speaks of your sufferings and difficulties, also reveals …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Before him, pagan rulers who knew nothing of the true God but worshipped idols of wood and stone still paid the highest respect to their priests. How much more fitting, then, that a Christian emperor should honor the priests of the true God, when pagan rulers knew how to honor priests who served gods of wood and stone? …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Book II, Letter 30 To Maurilius and Vitalianus [senior military commanders]. Gregory to Maurilius and Vitalianus, Magistri Militum. We have communicated with Your Glory through our son Vitalianus, both by word and by letter, urging you to coordinate with him. On the eleventh day of January, Ariulph [the Lombard Duke of …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.01
Gregory to Zabardas, Duke of Sardinia. From the letters of my brother and fellow bishop Felix, and of the servant of God Cyriacus, we have learned of your Glory's fine qualities. We give great thanks to Almighty God that Sardinia has such a duke — one who knows how to fulfill his duty to the state in earthly matters wh …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Empress Constantina. Knowing how my most serene Lady thinks about the heavenly country and the welfare of her soul, I believe I would be greatly at fault if I kept silent about matters that ought to be brought to her attention for the fear of God. I learned that there are many natives on the island of Sa …
gregory_great · c. 603 · score 0.01
Gregory to Phocas Augustus. It gives us joy to consider, with rejoicing and deep thanksgiving, what praises we owe Almighty God now that the yoke of sorrow has been lifted and we have come to times of freedom under the imperial authority of Your Benign Piety. That Your Serenity has not found a deacon of the Apostolic S …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.01
Gregory to Victor and Columbus, Bishops of Africa. We know from our own experience in this life how a disease, if neglected at its onset, gains strength. If it were met by skilled physicians at the start, it would be stopped before the far greater harm that comes from attending to it too late. Reason compels us, then, …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
As for what we ourselves are suffering from the swords of the Lombards in the daily plundering, wounding, and killing of our citizens — we prefer not to speak of it, lest in recounting our own sorrows we should only add to yours through the sympathy you bear toward us. Furthermore, a short while ago we sent to Sabinian …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
Gregory to Hospiton, leader of the Barbaricini. I have been pleased to learn that you, among all the Barbaricini leaders, worship the true God while the rest remain devoted to stocks and stones. I give thanks to Almighty God for this, and I urge you to hold firm to the faith you have received. Show your neighbors by wo …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 43 To Leander, Bishop of Hispalis [Seville, in Visigothic Spain; Leander was Gregory's close friend from their time together in Constantinople]. Gregory to Leander. I would have liked to reply to your letters with my full attention, but I am so worn down by the labor of pastoral responsibility that I am …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.01
Gregory to Barbara and Antonina. I was delighted in every way to receive your letter and to hear that you are well. I pray Almighty God to guard you by his protection from malignant spirits in your thoughts, from wicked men, and from every kind of adversity -- and that by the grace of his holy fear, he may settle you i …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Book II, Letter 29 To Maurilius and Vitalianus, Magistri Militum [senior military commanders defending central Italy]. Gregory to Maurilius and Vitalianus. On receiving Your Glory's letters, we gave thanks to God for your safety and greatly rejoiced at your careful preparations. What you requested was immediately made …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.01
Gregory to Barbara and Antonina. Most beloved daughters, I received your Glory's letter -- written more in tears than in words -- and I am touched by no less sorrow than you feel for your father's illness. The law of charity makes your sadness my own. But even in the direst circumstances, we must not lose trust in the …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Book II, Letter 42 To John, Bishop of Ravenna [the second most important city in Italy, seat of the imperial Exarch]. Gregory to John. The very fact that I write less often than I should shows how overwhelmed I am by the burdens of this place. But let Your Fraternity take the will for the deed, since what I cannot expr …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.01
Gregory to Sabinianus, Deacon. You know what has happened in the case of the usurper Maximus. After our most serene Lord the Emperor had sent orders that he should not be ordained, he broke out into an even higher pitch of arrogance. The men of the distinguished patrician Romanus accepted bribes from him and arranged h …