Resultados25 letters/passages
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
… hings pertaining to the public order, the bishops themselves recognize that the imperial governance has been conferred upon you by divine arrangement, and they obey your laws, lest they should seem to resist the order established for worldly affairs. With what affection, I ask, ought you to obey those who have been ass …
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 …
gregory_great · c. 598 · score 0.02
Gregory to Quertinus, ex-prefect. I have been asked to intervene on behalf of Bonitus in his effort to obtain a prefecture. I must be honest with you about why I cannot do this. The apostolic see does not seek to place particular individuals in positions of civil power through papal influence. This would be an inapprop …
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 0.01
… 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 …
symmachus · c. 386 · score 0.01
The palatine officials [imperial court staff] accused of wrongdoing, whom Your Excellency ordered brought from Bruttium [southern Italy], were produced by the soldier dispatched from the praetorium. But since the same case falls under the sacred court's jurisdicti …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
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 …
symmachus · c. 367 · score 0.01
… times spares this afflicted household. Otherwise the property restored through imperial indulgence will be consumed by the increase of the debt. The young Augustus will follow, as we hope, in the beneficent footsteps of his father, since the succession of empire has come to him together with his brother, and with it t …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Book II, Letter 22 To all the Bishops of Illyricum [the Roman province in the western Balkans]. Gregory to all the bishops. It both gives us joy for your careful judgment and confirms the validity of your own ordination that the ancient order of custom has been maintained. We have learned from the letters you sent thro …
leo_great · c. 447 · score 0.01
For this reason, we pray your clemency to oppose such disturbances with the Truth, and to order the Faith of the Catholic religion to be preserved without stain. We ask that, in accordance with the standard and decision of the Apostolic See — which we likewise revere as preeminent — Flavian may remain completely unharm …
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 …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
… agius I to John, count of the patrimony. In response to one who said he had the imperial orders in hand, we replied that he should know what the most gracious emperor himself has established in his general laws: that those sacred grants made at the request of individual petitioners prevail and take effect only when the …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
And yet even this is not enough; but something besides is said to be exacted according to a custom of many years. This practice we altogether detest, and desire it to be utterly extirpated from the patrimony. But, whether in this or in other minute imposts, let your Experience consider what is paid too much per pound, …
simplicius_pope · c. 472 · score 0.01
… ts that the emperor has the spirit of a most faithful priest and ruler, so that imperial authority may protect the faith. He commends the action taken and urges Zeno to ensure that the properly elected bishop is installed and the peace of the Antiochene church restored.
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 …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
… dvised connivance that neither is the fear of God maintained there, nor are the imperial commands carried out. They add that in the aforesaid province, through the bribes of the Donatists, the Catholic faith is being openly sold. The distinguished Gennadius, on the other hand, has in turn lodged a complaint against one …
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 …
leo_great · c. 453 · score 0.01
… t the things of God to the calculations of the world. Constantinople may be the imperial residence, but that does not give its bishop authority over the ancient apostolic foundations. Ambition is not a ground for privilege, and what the Council of Nicaea established, no later assembly may lawfully amend. I urge your cl …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
… contradict the orders of our most devout lords [the Emperor and Empress]. Those imperial orders had mercifully and gently removed many of the hardships suffered by landowners and citizens of the empire. We therefore ask you, at a suitable time, to present the case to our most devout lords in accordance with the just an …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Empress Constantina. Almighty God, who holds your devout heart in His right hand, both protects us through you and stores up for you eternal rewards in return for your earthly deeds. I have learned from the letters of my representative, the deacon Sabinianus, how justly Your Serenity has taken up the cau …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
The men who bring you this letter are sent by Maurentius, the master of soldiers [magister militum], for purposes he has explained to them. They are known to me as trustworthy, and I ask you to receive them well and to assist them in whatever business they have with you. A smooth working relationship between this offic …
leo_great · c. 459 · score 0.01
… of the Council's decrees, we support wholeheartedly. The Lord has given you the imperial authority not only for the governance of the state but for the protection of His Church, and we are confident that you will exercise this sacred trust with the same wisdom and firmness that have distinguished your reign. Dated from …