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synesius_cyrene · c. 409 · score 0.02
To Simplicius. When you asked Cerialis to bring me your congratulations, you did him an unintended favor — you kept me ignorant for five days of what a contemptible man he is. Our cities had some hope for anyone Simplicius deemed worth knowing. But he quickly disgraced not you — may your reputation never depend on any …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
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 0.02
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 …
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 589 · score 0.02
To the most holy and blessed Pope Gregory, bishop of the apostolic see of Rome, from Reccared, king of the Goths, in the name of the Lord, The grace of almighty God, who has guided our people from the darkness of error into the light of truth, moves me to share with you the great thing that has happened in our kingdom. …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.02
In the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. In the twenty-sixth year of the reign of our august lord, the Emperor Constantine, in the fifth year of his consulship, the 25th of October, the fourteenth indiction, the holy and blessed Pope Zacharias presided over a council held in the Lateran Basilica, at which the following b …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
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 …
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 …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 52 To Symmachus the Defensor [a church legal advocate serving in Corsica]. Gregory to Symmachus. My son, the deacon Boniface, has told me that you wrote to say a monastery built by Labina, a religious woman, is now ready for monks to be settled in it. I commend your initiative. However, we want a differe …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
Leoban sent the letter to the city of Westphalia, where it was received by a priest Macrius. He sent the letter to Mont St. Michel. In the end, through the intervention of an angel, the letter reached Rome, even the tombs of the Apostles, where the keys of the kingdom of heaven are. And the twelve dignitaries who are i …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
In the form that their heresy takes they differ from each other, but they are. Alike in their degree of error. "Since I am weak, I beg Your Apostolic Holiness to protect me against them by your authority and to lead back the Franks and Gauls to the right path by a written statement, so that they may no longer accept th …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
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 …
ennodius_pavia · c. 518 · score 0.01
He provides what is necessary who brings orphans and foreigners to the attention of the parent of all: the only path is the consolation of your apostolate, which heals strangers. Far be it from me to call afflicted those whom it befalls to reach you: parents, homeland, and wealth are not sought elsewhere by those whom …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
11 The holy bishops and venerable priests replied: " What else can we do except consign these writings, which have been read out to us, to the flames and to strike their authors with anathema? The names of the eight angels whom Aldebert invokes in his prayer are., with the exception of Michael, not angels but demons wh …
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 …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
By such pretence he was able by degrees, as St. Paul says, to make his way into house after house, captivating weak women whose consciences were burdened by sin and swayed by shifting passions. He also deceived great numbers of simple folk who thought that he was a man of truly apostolic character because he had wrough …
epistulae_langobardorum · c. 635 · score 0.01
Gundeperga, queen, to the most holy Father Honorius. I write to you in great distress, and I beg your pastoral care. I have been confined to a convent by my husband, King Arioald, on charges that I believe are false. I will not burden you with the details of the political situation — you will have heard various account …
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
The poor people of Parma...
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
She is known to be related in the third degree to the man who wishes to marry her and who now declares that the necessary permission has been granted. Furthermore, before her first marriage she had made a solemn vow of chastity and, after taking the veil, threw it aside. For this marriage the man states that he has per …
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, …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
Jerome, St. Augustine and St. Gregory. He despises all synodal decrees and declares on his own authority that, even though he has had two children born to him during his episcopate, he can still exercise the functions of a Christian bishop. He accepts the Old Testament ruling that a man can if he wishes, marry his brot …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
They should receive a sentence commensurate with their crimes." Zacharias, the Pope, said: " It is rather too late today, but at the next session, when we have heard the account of his life, the prayer he composed for himself and the rest of his malpractices, we may, by the help of God, come to a unanimous decision on …
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, …
epistulae_merowingici · c. 596 · score 0.01
Brunhild, queen, to the most blessed and holy Pope Gregory. I write to the shepherd of all shepherds with respect for your office and with genuine need for your support. The work of building up the church in the territories I govern is ongoing, and it requires resources, patronage, and — I want to be honest — the prest …
epistulae_merowingici · c. 601 · score 0.01
Brunhild to the most blessed Pope Gregory. The reports reaching us about the mission to Britain are followed here with great interest. That the Anglo-Saxons — who raid our coasts and whom our merchants encounter in trade — are now hearing the Gospel is something I find genuinely moving. I want to ask you about the miss …
pope_symmachus · c. 507 · score 0.01
To the consultations of our most beloved brother Bishop Caesarius we respond with the authority and care that the apostolic see owes to all the churches. We recall that the use of the pallium was granted to him, and we subjoin the booklet by which he consulted us. Concerning the first point, that the property of the Ch …