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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 …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
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 0.02
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 …
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 …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
He did not however submit to the royal mandate, but remained at home, alleging an insurrection of the people in excuse, and the unseasonable zeal of certain persons 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 ma …
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
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 …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
Who could hear these things without tears, even if he had a heart of stone? But seeing, as I said before, that we ought not merely to lament the evils which have been done, but also to amend them, I beg your Charity to rouse yourself and have compassion, and do everything so as to put a stop to the mischief at this poi …
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
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 …
boniface · c. 752 · score 0.01
[Context: On the death of Pope Zacharias a certain Stephen was elected (23 March 752) but died three days later before his consecration could take place. Early writers did not include him in the fist of Popes and this has caused confusion in the numbering of the Popes Stephen. Tbe Pope who is addressed here is Stephen …
leo_great · c. 443 · score 0.01
A second letter from Flavian to Leo. I. The heresy of Eutyches restated To the most holy and blessed father and fellow minister Leo: Flavian sends greetings in the Lord. Nothing, as you know, most beloved of God, is more precious to priests than piety and the right handling of the word of truth. For all our hope and sa …
boniface · c. 751 · score 0.01
The Pontiff also told me to make reports to the Apostolic See on the life and customs of the races I visited. And this I hope that I have done. But on the matter which I made known to you about the archbishops making their pleas for pallia from Rome, as the Franks promised they would, I crave the indulgence of the Apos …
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 …
boniface · c. 751 · score 0.01
It is my desire, sustained by your prayers and led by God's grace, to continue my close relations with you and to remain in your service among the German people to whom I was sent, and to follow your directions as it is written:[Ecclus iii.2] "Hear the judgment of your father, 0 my children, and so act that you may be …
leo_great · c. 443 · score 0.01
II. The means Eutyches has taken to circumvent the synod Yet the acts of Ephesus, in the letter written by the holy and ecumenical synod to the deposed Nestorius, contain these express words: "The natures which came together to form true unity are indeed different; and yet from them both there is but one Christ and Son …
boniface · c. 751 · score 0.01
To the most reverend and beloved lord and master to be revered in fear and honour, Zacharias, invested with the privilege of the apostolic office and raised to the dignity of the Apostolic See, Boniface, your humble and most unworthy servant, but your devoted legate in Germany, sends greetings of unfailing love. I beg …
leo_great · c. 442 · score 0.01
From Eutyches to Leo. God the Word is above all my witness -- being confident of my hope and faith in Christ the Lord and God of all, and trusting in the proof of my right belief in these matters -- but I also call upon Your Holiness to testify, and upon every bishop and teacher of right faith. I have been a Christian …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. I acknowledge your prayer, my dear Pliny, that I may celebrate many happy birthdays, and that our Empire may continue to prosper.
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. You have adopted the proper course, my dear Pliny, in examining into the cases of those who have been denounced to you as Christians, for no hard and fast rule can be laid down to meet a question of such wide extent. The Christians are not to be hunted out ; if they are brought before you and the offen …
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 …
jerome · c. 409 · score 0.01
You are not a woman who needs managing. You are a woman who chose God. Act accordingly. To both: Live together. You are mother and daughter. You belong under the same roof, supporting each other, bearing witness together to a common vocation. The separation itself is part of the problem — it suggests that neither of yo …