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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 …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.02
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 0.02
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 …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.02
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 …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.02
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 …
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 …
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
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 …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
When the Holy Gospels had been placed in the middle of the assembly, Gregory, the regional notary and nomenclator, announced in the presence of the deacons and the clergy: " In accordance with the command given by Your Holiness in the last session that Denehard, the priest, should appear before you today, he is waiting …
hormisdas · c. 514 · score 0.01
Copy of the report of John, bishop of Nicopolis. Delivered by his deacon Rufinus. To my lord, all-holy and most blessed father of fathers, fellow minister and prince of bishops, Hormisdas: John sends greetings in the Lord. My constant concern has always been to seek nothing beyond managing my own affairs and committing …
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 …
pope_hilary · c. 461 · score 0.01
Nor is each one merely dissimilar from the other by his own definition, but each individual one of them also subsists now in variety and now fails in assertion by the aforementioned alternation of lunar and diurnal reckoning. To this is added that the lunar enumeration itself has been so varied by the opinions of all, …
pope_hilary · c. 466 · score 0.01
The bishops of Tarraconensis to the most holy Pope Hilary, a second letter. We write again on the matter of Irenaeus, whom Nundinarius, the late bishop of Barcelona, had designated as his successor, and who is being supported in his claim by the clergy and people who favored that designation. The canonical question is …
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 …
epistulae_langobardorum · c. 625 · score 0.01
Theudelinda to the most holy Bishop Honorius. I write as one who knew Gregory, your predecessor's predecessor, and who carries in my memory the long conversation he and I had about the unity of the church. He urged me always toward that unity. I am writing now because I am troubled by something that seems to threaten i …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
He was sprung from simple parents and was crowned by the grace of God. For Whilst he was in his mother's womb the grace of God came upon him, and before his birth his mother saw, as in a vision, a calf issuing from her right side. This calf symbolized the grace which he had received from an angel before he came forth f …
pope_hilary · c. 466 · score 0.01
The bishops of the province of Tarraconensis to the most holy Pope Hilary, greetings. We write to lay before the apostolic see two matters on which we need guidance. The first: Bishop Silvanus of Calahorra has consecrated a bishop for a see whose people had not requested a bishop and without following the procedure est …
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 …
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 …
boniface · c. 753 · score 0.01
But this he did not do. He did not preach to the Frisians nor convert them to Christianity. The Frisian people remained pagans until Sergius, Pontiff of the Roman See., sent Willibrord as bishop and teacher to them. He it was who converted them to the faith of Christ. Now the Bishop of Cologne wishes to annex this see …