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boniface · c. 742 · score 0.02
Peter's word and the Apostolic See's command, which neither present nor future generations will presume to change in defiance of the authority of the Apostolic See. Let it be known to you also, Holy Father, that Carloman, Emperor of the Franks, summoned me to his presence and desired me to convoke a synod in that part …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.02
From John, Bishop of Ravenna, to Pope Gregory. My most reverend colleague Castorius, notary of your Apostolic See, has delivered my lord's letter to me — a letter compounded of honey and venom. Yet it has driven its stings in deeply enough while still leaving room for the healing remedy. For my lord, even while he repr …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
… ns who were attached to him, as he pretended: and yet before the arrival of the imperial letters this same people had deluged him with abuse. But we do not make much of these matters now, but have said what we have said as wishing to prove the fact that he was arrested in his mischievous course. Yet even after these th …
ennodius_pavia · c. 501 · score 0.02
To Pope Symmachus, from Ennodius. While the apostolic see is graced by the care of Your Holiness's crown, and the heavenly governance of the Church proceeds under your direction, those of us who serve the faith from a distance take comfort in knowing that the head is sound. The attacks you face are known to me, and the …
basil_caesarea · c. 373 · score 0.02
The common law of human nature makes older men fathers to the young, and the particular law of Christians puts us elders in the place of parents. Do not think me impertinent, then, if I plead with you on behalf of your son. In other matters I think it entirely right that you should expect obedience from him. His body i …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
Having considered therefore all these things, and having been clearly informed of all particulars by my lords, our most devout brethren the bishops, may you be induced to exert your zeal on our behalf; for in so doing you will confer a favour not upon ourselves alone but also upon the Church at large, and you will rece …
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
Of such matters the Apostle says reprovingly: " You have begun to observe special days and months, special seasons and years. I am anxious over you: has all the labour I have spent on you been useless? " And St. Augustine says: " The man who puts his faith in such nonsense as incantations, fortune-tellers, soothsayers, …
ennodius_pavia · c. 499 · score 0.01
Ennodius to Pope Symmachus. [Pope Symmachus (r. 498-514) was a pope whom Ennodius energetically defended during the disputed papal election of 498-502. This letter concerns a property settlement.] Your apostolic condescension has raised me to the point of boldness: the confidence you granted has become the mother of my …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
… ns. Being conscious therefore of what he had done, and dreading conviction, the imperial letters having been sent in every direction, convoking all men from all quarters, Theophilus secretly at midnight flung himself into a boat, and so made his escape, taking all his company with him. 3. But even then we did not desis …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
Correspondence with Pope Innocent I From John to Innocent To my lord, the most reverend and divinely beloved bishop Innocent, John sends greeting in the Lord 1. I suppose that even before receiving our letter your Piety has heard of the iniquity which has been perpetrated here. For the magnitude of our distress has lef …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
For as a proof that our silence has not been due to negligence, we have now at last after a long time secured our most honoured and beloved John the presbyter, and Paul the deacon, and we send a letter through them, and continue to express our gratitude to you, that you have surpassed even affectionate parents in your …
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
Among them are bishops who deny the charges of fornication and adultery but who, nevertheless, are shiftless drunkards, addicted to the chase, who march armed into battle and shed with their own hands the blood of Christians and heathens alike. Since I am recognised as the servant and legate of the Apostolic See, my de …
pope_hilary · c. 462 · score 0.01
Leontius, bishop of Arles, to the most holy Pope Hilary, greetings. That we have lost Leo, the most holy and learned bishop who governed the apostolic see with such distinction for so many years, is a grief that the whole church shares. That we have gained in you a successor who was formed in his school, who served him …
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
[Context: Pope Zacharias (741-52) was of Greek extraction. He seems to have been less understanding of Boniface's difficulties than the previous Popes, though to him must be ascribed the confirmation of the synods and much else that Boniface undertook. It was through his efforts that the Synod of Cloveshoe in England, …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
Therefore to prevent such confusion overtaking the whole earth yield to our entreaties that you will signify by writing that these lawless transactions executed in our absence, and after hearing one side only, although we did not decline a trial, are invalid, as indeed they are by the very nature of the case, and that …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
And when day dawned all the city was migrating outside the walls under trees and groves, celebrating the festival, like scattered sheep. 4. All which happened afterwards I leave you to imagine; for as I said before it is not possible to describe each separate incident. The worst of it is that these evils, great and ser …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
For how could one who had not yet received any bills of indictment against me, and had acted from the outset in the manner described, and severed himself from the Church, from communion, and from prayer, and was training accusers, and seducing the clergy, and desolating the Church, how, I say, could he with justice mou …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
For it were more fitting, most honoured brethren, that good deeds should be condemned than that things done in direct opposition to the canons should have any validity. But what are we to do against such things at the present time? A synodical decision of them is necessary, and we have long declared that a synod ought …
gregory_nazianzus · c. 365 · score 0.01
Gregory to Basil. You summoned me to Caesarea with a letter claiming you were dangerously ill. I dropped everything and set out at once, my heart heavy with grief and fear. But I had not gone far before I learned the truth: you are in your usual health, and the real reason for your summons was that the archbishopric of …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
We seeing this, were in great perplexity, not being able to discover the cause of this unjust hostility; nevertheless we discharged our part, doing what became us, and continually beseeching him to meet us and to say for what cause he hazarded so great a contest at the outset, and threw the city into such confusion. Bu …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
And this is what your chief brother, and fellow minister, John, your bishop has unjustly suffered, not having obtained any hearing: no crime is charged against him, none is heard. And what is the object of this iniquitous device? That no pretext for a trial may occur, or be sought, other men are introduced into the pla …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
Innocent, bishop, to presbyters and deacons, and to all the clergy and people of the Church of Constantinople, the brethren beloved who are subject to the bishop John, greeting From the letters of your love which you have sent by the hands of Germanus the presbyter, and Casianus the deacon, I have studied with anxious …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
And women from the oratories who had stripped themselves for baptism just at that time, fled unclothed, from terror at this grievous assault, not being permitted to put on the modest apparel which befits women; indeed many received wounds before they were expelled, and the baptismal pools were filled with blood, and th …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
This is our wall of defense, this is our security, this our calm haven, this our treasure of infinite blessings, this our gladness, and ground of much joy. And even if we should be carried off again to some spot more desolate than this, we will carry this love away with us as no small consolation of our sufferings. Fro …
jerome · c. 409 · score 0.01
Jerome to a Mother and her Daughter — greetings. A brother from Gaul has brought me a situation that frankly defies parody. He tells me that his widowed mother and his virgin sister — both of them supposedly living in consecrated celibacy, both of them in the same city — have taken separate houses, and that each of the …