Resultados25 letters/passages
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
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 0.02
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. 594 · score 0.02
On my own account I was not at all disturbed. My conscience bears me witness: I was prepared to endure any hardship, so long as I emerged from it all with my soul intact. But I have grieved deeply for the distinguished men Gregory the prefect and Castorius the military commander, who neglected nothing that could be don …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.02
Book II, Letter 37 To Maximianus, Bishop of Syracuse [Gregory's trusted deputy in Sicily]. Gregory to Maximianus. I must write to your Fraternity about a situation that requires pastoral attention. We have learned that certain monks in the province of Sicily are wandering about without any supervision, neither observin …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.02
Gregory to the lord Venantius, Patrician, and Italica his wife. With due affection, I have made inquiries of certain people who have come from Sicily about Your Excellency's health. But the report they gave me was a sad one, full of accounts of your frequent ailments. When I say this, I have nothing better to report ab …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Gregory to Sebastian, Bishop of Sirmium. I received your most welcome and pleasant letter. Though you are never absent from my heart, your Fraternity's letter has made you feel present to me bodily, as it were. I pray that Almighty God may protect you with his right hand, grant you a peaceful life here, and when it ple …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
Gregory to Syagrius, Bishop of Autun. If in secular affairs every person should have their rights and proper rank preserved, how much more so in ecclesiastical matters? Discord must never be allowed to take root where the blessings of peace should originate. This is secured when nothing is conceded to power but everyth …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Emperor Mauricius. The generosity of my Lords, which has always mercifully sustained your servants, has shone forth here in so generous a supply that the needs of all who are weak and suffering have been relieved by your bounty. For this we all pray with tears to Almighty God -- who moved your Clemency t …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 36 To Peter the Subdeacon [Gregory's delegate in Sicily]. Gregory, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to Peter the Subdeacon. The instructions I gave you when you departed for Sicily must be studied carefully. The greatest attention must be paid to ensuring that bishops do not involve themselves in …
gregory_great · c. 604 · score 0.01
Gregory to Anthemius, subdeacon of Campania. Stephanus, the bearer of this letter, who claims that his wife is a servant of our Church, has reported that he was purchased from the enemy by the elder Acellus for eight solidi. And since he states that he is too poor to repay the price, let your experience carefully inqui …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Gregory to Paul, Scholasticus. When outsiders congratulate me on the dignity of my office, I pay it little mind. But when you do the same, it genuinely pains me -- because you know what I truly wanted, and yet you treat this as a promotion. The real promotion for me would have been achieving what I longed for: the peac …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
Gregory to Anthemius, our subdeacon at Naples. How great our grief is, and how deeply afflicted our heart by what has taken place in the regions of Campania, we cannot express — but you may judge it yourself from the magnitude of the disaster. In view of these circumstances, we are sending you by the distinguished Step …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Gregory to Gennadius, patrician and commander in Africa. A man named Droculf has returned after being held captive by the barbarians. He has endured what I hope neither of us will ever be called upon to endure, and he has come back to us diminished in circumstances but, from all I hear, not in spirit. I commend him to …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 67 To Peter, Subdeacon [Gregory's delegate in Sicily]. Gregory to Peter. If we meet our neighbors' needs with a compassionate spirit, we will surely find the Lord merciful toward our own prayers. We have learned that Pastor, who suffers from extreme weakness of sight and has a wife and two servants (who …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
If the captivity of my land were not growing worse by the day, I would gladly pass over in silence the contempt and ridicule directed at me. But what afflicts me deeply is that my being branded a liar means Italy is dragged further under the Lombard yoke daily. While my reports go unbelieved, the enemy's strength grows …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 44 To Peter, Subdeacon of Sicily. Gregory to Peter, etc. With regard to our having so long delayed sending off your messenger, we have been so occupied with the engagements of the Paschal festival that we have been unable to let him go sooner. But, with regard to the questions on which you have desired i …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Recognizing what zeal has kindled your fraternity concerning Christian slaves whom Jews buy from the regions of Gaul, we signify that your solicitude has pleased us so much that our own deliberation judged it right to prohibit them from this kind of trade. But when the Hebrew Basilius came with other Jews, we learned t …
gregory_great · c. 596 · score 0.01
Gregory to John, bishop of Syracuse. Ten pounds of gold are to be paid to the bishop Basil of Capua [for the ransom of captives — ransoming Christians taken by the Lombards was one of Gregory's most active pastoral commitments]. The captives to be ransomed are Cethegus and Flora. Arrange this payment promptly. Two peop …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
Gregory to Theoderic and Theodebert, Kings of the Franks. Since the renown of your kingdom has long outshone all others through the grace of the Christian religion, you should take the greatest care to please the Almighty Lord all the more perfectly in that very thing which makes you more glorious than other nations -- …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.01
Book III, Letter 33 To Dynamius, Patrician of Gaul [a high-ranking nobleman in Frankish territory, likely in Provence]. Gregory to Dynamius, Patrician of Gaul. One who faithfully administers what belongs to another demonstrates how well he would manage his own affairs. Your Glory has shown this clearly through your dev …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
Since you are on the spot and can investigate the merits of the case more thoroughly, we urge you to deal justly and canonically with this same Peter, so that the demands of right may be fully met by you in all respects and his case may be seen to have been judged in the fear of God and according to the rules of the Ch …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Gregory to Bacauda and Agnellus, Bishops. The Jewish community residing in Terracina has petitioned us for permission to continue using their synagogue site, which they have occupied up to now under our authority. However, we have been informed that the site is so close to the church that the sound of their worship can …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.01
Gregory to Libertinus, Prefect of Sicily. From the very start of your administration, God has directed you to champion His cause, and in His mercy has reserved this distinction for you, with the praise that accompanies it. We are informed that one Nasas, a most wicked Jew, has with punishable audacity erected an altar …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
But lest also the leases [i.e. by the Church to the farmers] be adjusted according to the sum of the payments due. We desire you to receive no more from the estates of the Church on account of the store-houses and stores beyond what is customary; but let your own stores which we have ordered to be procured be procured …