Resultados25 letters/passages
hormisdas · c. 521 · score 0.02
Since it was necessary for letters to be sent to our lord and son, the most merciful emperor, we commend to the amplitude of your eminence the legates we have dispatched, asking that you deign to support them in the work entrusted to them, and assist their efforts with your authority at court, so that the cause of eccl …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.02
Well and usefully does your serenity exercise the care of the imperial office, not only in administering the business of the republic but in ennobling it with better institutions, and through the care of restoring unity appeases the author of your venerable empire. For those who reign are secure in th …
hormisdas · c. 522 · score 0.02
Your apostleship has diligently learned with what fervor of faith your son, the most serene emperor, and we ourselves have acted from the beginning. We have never ceased to do what pertained to the strengthening of religion and the peace of the churches. Now we earnestly urge that concerning the chapters which have rec …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.02
Hormisdas to [unknown]. Since it was necessary to send documents to our lord the most clement prince, we could not pass over your amplitude in silence. And so, offering our respects, we commend those who have been dispatched on this business, asking that under your supervision they may quickly reach their destination — …
hormisdas · c. 514 · score 0.02
… rus. It is right and beneficial that Your Serenity exercises the sharp focus of imperial authority not only in administering the affairs of the republic but, ennobling it with higher purposes, also seeks to placate the Author of your revered empire through the work of restoring unity. For rulers can be certain of their …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.02
The Emperor Justin Augustus to Pope Hormisdas. John, the most blessed bishop of this royal city, together with the other reverend bishops gathered here from various places and cities, have informed Our Serenity that they have composed letters to be presented to Your Holiness regarding the unity of those who worship the …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
The peace of the churches is now being composed by heavenly ordinance, since God has chosen you for the empire — in whom he knew the affection for his religion to be always entire. For just as in your private life you always worshipped God with right doctrine, so that you might think about the concord of religion, so n …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.01
Your clemency rightly has confidence, as you have declared in the glorious communications sent to me, that it specially profits your republic if the cause of the orthodox faith is placed before all other things. For this is the more salutary concern of a ruler who has received the governance: to conciliate for himself …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
Our spirit is rendered anxious by the long delay of expectation; having been dispatched to so great an emperor, you ought to have informed us more quickly. For we believed we would be able to receive your letters before Ascension Day. Therefore, desiring to learn both the signs of your well-being and the progress of th …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
The piety of almighty God, entreated by the prayers of your blessedness, has deigned to bestow upon us a prince of such great faith that the restoration of ecclesiastical peace, which was demanded by the prayers of all the faithful, may justly be seen to have been conferred through the most religious merits of his clem …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
… t these things are being ordained from above, since divine majesty has bestowed imperial power upon one who considers himself appointed for the purpose of composing the peace of the churches. What remains, then, is this: all the bishops of the Eastern regions must testify, following the form of the libellus, that they …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
We rightly confess that the grace of the divine gift has dawned upon us, knowing by the assertion of this letter that the reverence of your apostleship holds our memory in its holy heart. For with true hope we trust that the propitiation of heavenly mercy comes through the intercession of the pontiff, most blessed lord …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
We have received what your love communicated in the letters you sent, and we rejoice that the evidence of your faith has reached our knowledge, desiring that God may deign to grant full effect toward ecclesiastical peace to your intention, which we wish to be right. We have conceived hope of this from the heavenly maje …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
Copy of the letter of Justinian. To my lord, the most holy Hormisdas, first among archbishops and Pope of the city of Rome — from Justinian, count. The preaching of your venerable holiness's rules — which constantly supplicates Christ our God for the peace of the churches and the concord of the people — has borne its f …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
It is fitting that God's blessings, though they should be made known to many, should above all be declared to the highest pontiffs. Accordingly, we announce to your holiness through these sacred letters that, first by the favor of the inseparable Trinity, then by the authority of the most distinguished officials of our …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
The Catholic Church sends its congratulations to the venerable first fruits of your reign, most glorious son, in place of a gift, through which it trusts that after so great a weariness of discord it will find the rest of peace. Nor is there any doubt that you have reached the summit of power by heavenly providence, so …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.01
Let your apostolate therefore show that it has deservedly succeeded the apostle Peter, since the Lord will demand from you as the chief pastors the salvation of all who can be saved once concord has been established. For once the articles about which you have received the letters are settled, we will no longer permit a …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
Hormisdas to the Emperor Justin Augustus. Delivered by Gratus. The joy we felt at the beginning of your reign — already great in its own right and doubled by your gracious earlier communication — we now reciprocate with devoted gratitude. For we foresaw even then what you have now confirmed: that the inspiration of hea …
hormisdas · c. 522 · score 0.01
Since, therefore, it was proper that our deliberation be declared to your holiness as well, so that from it our desire may also be made evident — in which we direct every effort toward restraining and moderating controversies and extending the desired concord among all — we have judged that the present letters also sho …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
Hormisdas to the Illustrious men, jointly. Although our concern for the ecclesiastical cause has never ceased, we have now been more promptly spurred by the sacred communications of the most serene Emperor, and we have sent legates with the favor of heavenly mercy — through whose office the good things we anticipate fr …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
Copy of the letter of Justinian. To my lord, the most holy Hormisdas, first among archbishops and Pope of the city of Rome — from Justinian, count. The time we longed for with our deepest prayers has arrived: divine mercy, looking down upon the sufferings of the human race, has deigned to grant it. Now all catholics an …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
Reviewing your merits before the empire, we proclaim that you have been chosen by God to restore peace to the Church. We recall your well-known piety and your devotion to the orthodox faith, which you demonstrated even before you ascended to the throne. It was not by human contrivance but by divine providence that the …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
We received the letters of your magnificence, full of love for the holy faith, in which you announced that an opportunity has come to us divinely for exercising among you the firmness of apostolic preaching. Whence we give thanks unceasingly to our Lord, who has given both the time and the disposition for such excellen …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
We know that the spirit of your magnificence is so vigorous with devotion to religion that you wish a benefit to the perfection of the peace of the church to be demanded from you rather than merely requested, judging that it profits the merits of your excellency that it falls to you to offer what the desire of the whol …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
We bless the ineffable aid of the divinity, because we have learned that the desire of the whole world for the peace of the churches has been fulfilled in tranquility. This indeed did not happen beyond our expectation, because from the character of the most religious Augustus we always held hope for peace and believed …