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 …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
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, …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.02
… 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 …
leo_great · c. 453 · score 0.02
… 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 0.02
… 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 0.02
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. 596 · score 0.01
These things having been ordained and granted by us, study in the governing of your community to show yourself so earnest and attentive in all respects that the malice of the evil one may find nothing there that can be corrupted. All these provisions, set out in this document of injunctions, we decree to be observed, u …
symmachus · c. 397 · score 0.01
Rufus, the treasurer of the pontifical college, is bringing you the college's formal petition. He's been specifically entrusted with the matter of retaining the Vaganensis estate [a piece of land belonging to the priestly college]. I beg you: make it seem as though your help in this matter were divinely provided. And r …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Emperor Mauricius. Our most devout and God-appointed sovereign, among his many pressing cares, also watches over the preservation of peace among the clergy with genuine spiritual concern -- rightly and wisely recognizing that no one can govern earthly affairs well unless he knows how to handle the things …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
Which things our ancestors, discerning by divine inspiration, necessarily took precaution that against each heresy, once the council had been celebrated and the decision made, this should remain perpetually firm, and that the same cause should never be allowed to come under examination again. They rightly understood th …
gregory_great · c. 603 · score 0.01
… rejoicing, we who are glad that the kindness of Your Piety has ascended to the imperial throne. "Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad" (Psalm 96:11). Let the whole people of the republic, so long and so grievously afflicted, grow cheerful at your generous deeds. Let the proud minds of enemies be brought …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
The servants of your piety, my sons Faustus the master and Irenaeus, illustrious men, and their companions performing their public embassy, having returned to the city, said that your clemency had inquired why I had not sent writings of my greeting to you. Not by my own design, I confess, but since those who had long s …
gregory_great · c. 597 · score 0.01
Your appointment to oversee the poor table and the administration of the diaconia is now confirmed. This is a charge of the highest spiritual seriousness — the hungry who come to that table are the Lord Christ himself in disguise, and every loaf distributed in his name is an act of worship. I have granted you the neces …
leo_great · c. 453 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to the Emperor Marcian Augustus, by the hand of Lucian the bishop and Basil the deacon. I. He congratulates the Emperor on his role in the triumph of the Catholic faith By the great bounty of God's mercy the joys of the whole Catholic Church have been multiplied, now that through your clemency's ho …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
To Trajan. The free and allied city * of Amisus, thanks to your favour, enjoys its own special laws. I have enclosed with this letter, Sir, a memorial relating to their collections for the poor, that you may decide in what way the practice is to be permitted, to what lengths it may be carried, or where it should be che …
simplicius_pope · c. 478 · score 0.01
… of the Council of Chalcedon are preserved inviolate. He commends the emperor's imperial zeal for the Catholic faith and presses him to resist all those who seek to undermine the Chalcedonian settlement, whether by convening a new council or by restoring condemned Monophysite leaders to their sees.
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
Your experience is mindful of what kind of oath you swore at the most sacred body of blessed Peter the apostle; from which we too, being assured, committed the cause of investigation in the patrimony of the Syracusan region to you. It is therefore fitting that you always keep before your eyes your faith and the fear of …
leo_great · c. 460 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to Leo Augustus. I. He sends envoys but urges against any fresh discussion of the faith Rejoicing that it has been demonstrated to me by many clear proofs how earnestly you safeguard the interests of the universal Church, I have not delayed in obeying your Majesty's instructions at the first opport …
simplicius_pope · c. 468 · score 0.01
We have received through the presbyter and the deacon whom your love sent the report concerning the affairs of the church of Alexandria, and the distressing events that have unfolded there fill us with the deepest sorrow. For we have learned that after the death of the catholic bishop Timothy, the heretical Peter has b …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
… e that he alone is a bishop and all the rest are nothing. I ask, then, that the imperial power prohibit this presumption, so that I may not be compelled to take measures that would sadden both me and the Church. Let the matter be resolved through Your Piety's wisdom, so that the peace of the clergy -- and through it, t …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
I want you to correct whatever has been done in this way without delay. Slaves taken into church possession without trial should be returned before any trial, so that if the Church has a legitimate claim, the current possessors may then be dispossessed through proper legal proceedings. Correct all this permanently. You …
leo_great · c. 453 · score 0.01
He believes that his overreaching self-promotion can be advanced by asserting that certain bishops indicated their agreement -- an agreement that is invalid on its face, since it was obtained without the authority of the Apostolic See and in violation of the canons established at Nicaea. The regulations of the holy Cou …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
To Trajan. When I wished, Sir, to be informed of those who owed money to the city of Apamea, and of its revenue and expenditure, I was told that though everyone was anxious that the accounts of the colony should be gone through by me, no proconsul had ever done so before, and that it was one of their privileges and mos …
gregory_great · c. 600 · score 0.01
I need you to locate Adeodatus, who bears this letter, and to look into the matter of a structure he has built on land belonging to the Roman church. I want a full account: what was built, where, under what authority, and what the current state of the matter is. If this was done without proper authorization, the situat …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
It has been brought to our attention that certain handmaids of God from the city of Nola, residing in the Aboritana house, are suffering extreme want of food and clothing. It is fitting that we come to their aid by God's command and relieve their poverty as far as we are able, the Lord granting it. Therefore by this pr …