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pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.02
Pope Pelagius I to the defender. Pope Pelagius I instructs a defender of the Church to ensure that all those who have come to receive ecclesiastical assistance present themselves before the relevant authority in an orderly fashion, and to prevent any abuse of the hospitality or resources of the Church. He is to maintai …
pelagius_i · c. 557 · score 0.02
Pope Pelagius I to King Childebert of the Franks. To our lord, our son, the most glorious and preeminent King Childebert — Pelagius, bishop. We received with reverence Your Excellency's letters, both those brought earlier by your envoys and those now sent through our brother and fellow bishop Sapaudus, and upon learnin …
pelagius_i · c. 556 · score 0.02
Having received the report sent by you through Jordanes, defender of our church, we were greatly astonished that you are so forgetful of apostolic authority as to have wished even to confirm your division from the universal Church, God forbid, by our consent, and that those who ought to suppress the ignorance of the pe …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.02
Pope Pelagius I to Constantine, defender of the Church. Romanus, a cleric of the church of Teano, having been deposed from clerical order for the crime of adultery which he is reported to have committed, has been confined in a monastery here in the city of Rome on our orders to do penance — with the provision that, sho …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.02
Pope Pelagius I to Bishop Severus of Camerino. The priest Jucundus of the church of Turina — which is known to belong to the diocese of Spoleto — has submitted a petition to us reporting that the sacred vessels of the church over which he now presides were given by his predecessors to a certain merchant named Albinus i …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.02
We received the letters of your love and have carefully considered what you have reported concerning the churches in your region. The apostolic see, to which the blessed Peter entrusted the governance of the universal Church, cannot be indifferent to any matter that affects the peace and good order of the churches. We …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to the deacon Sarpatus, papal representative in Constantinople. We write to call you back to Rome, for we are both now old men, and the time remaining to us is uncertain. We have matters of the greatest importance to discuss with you, and your absence from us at this moment is keenly felt. The affairs o …
pelagius_i · c. 557 · score 0.01
The Savior and Lord of the human race, teaching his disciples, says: It is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that even one of the least of these should perish; concerning whom he asserts that no one should be scandalized without the comparison of great punishment. Since therefore this form of precept applies …
pelagius_i · c. 558 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to Dulcitius, defender of the Church. Among other matters, we take issue with the accounts you have sent us — accounts which, following the Greek fashion, are obscured and difficult to interpret — regarding the revenues of the sixth indiction. You report that you collected properties on behalf of fifty …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to Gurdimerus, count. The meadows along the Portus road, known as the Epreiana, are early-maturing, and if they are not begun to be cut within five or six days, the seed will be shed and only useless hay will thereafter be stored from them. We therefore instruct you to see to it without delay that these …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to Potentius, defender of the Church. It is established that the father of the girl belonging to your church is a slave of the church, while her grandfather was born of free parents. We therefore rule that in the matter of her marriage the judgment of her grandfather, not her father — whose free will is …
pelagius_i · c. 557 · score 0.01
The vessel of election, the most blessed apostle Paul, when speaking of the Jews who did not yet believe in Christ, professed that they have a zeal for God, but lest from this they should be believed to be without fault, he consequently added: But not according to knowledge, to show by the teaching entrusted to him by …
pelagius_i · c. 558 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to Bishop Eutychius of Constantinople. The illustrious man Theoctistus has conveyed to us in person that Your Fraternity desires certain relics from us. We are pleased to honor this request, since the veneration of the saints is a bond that unites the churches of East and West. Along with the relics we …
pelagius_i · c. 557 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to King Childebert of the Franks. To our lord, our son, the most glorious and preeminent King Childebert — Pelagius, bishop. Although divine mercy has bestowed many gifts upon Your Highness, it is above all for the love which you sincerely show the Church that God has made you more illustrious than many …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to the master of soldiers. Among other matters, we wish to make clear that a bishop is forbidden to alienate the rights and properties of his church after they have been properly established during his pontificate. Once canonical arrangements for a church have been made, those arrangements are binding a …
pelagius_i · c. 556 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to Bishop Sapaudus of Arles. Because the envoys of our son, the most glorious King Childebert, have requested relics of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul and of other holy martyrs, we have found it necessary to send our subdeacon Homobonus from our clergy to carry them to Your Fraternity with all reve …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
We write to your love with the earnest affection that the care of the apostolic see demands, addressing the matters which have been reported to us concerning the churches in your region. The division which has arisen among the bishops on account of the condemnation of the Three Chapters causes us the deepest grief, for …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
The care which the apostolic see bears for all the churches, committed to us by the authority of the blessed apostle Peter, compels us to address with the utmost seriousness the matters which have been reported to us from your province. We have learned with deep sorrow that the schism occasioned by the affair of the Th …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to Bishop Priscus of Capua. It has just come to our ears that you have committed a serious offense. What could be graver than what you have done — to hand over to a man a woman who had taken refuge in the church of God, crying out that she wished to return to the religious vow she had unwisely abandoned …
pelagius_i · c. 558 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to the addressee. We write to address a matter of ecclesiastical discipline that has been referred to us. The conduct described in your report is incompatible with the dignity of clerical office and must be addressed through the appropriate canonical procedures. The persons involved are to be summoned, …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to Peter, presbyter. Because the fraudulent conduct attributed to Maximilian has come to our ears through the tearful petition of petitioners, and because it will not be easy to establish the truth of this unless the property of the church that he has scattered by converting it to his own uses is remove …
pelagius_i · c. 558 · score 0.01
The care which the apostolic see bears for all the churches, entrusted to us by the authority of the blessed apostle Peter, compels us to respond with all diligence to the matters which have been brought to our attention from your province. The reports which we have received fill us with both sorrow and concern: sorrow …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
Pope Pelagius I to Bishop Rufinus of Viviers. If the evangelical admonition warns us not to let anger reach the point of furious words, how much more must a bishop restrain himself from actions that bring scandal upon the Church. We commend you for having deprived of his priestly office the cleric whose behavior warran …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
We have received the report of your love and have read with great concern the account of the excesses committed by certain bishops in your province. The apostolic see cannot tolerate such behavior, for the bishops are the shepherds of the flock of Christ and must conduct themselves in a manner worthy of their sacred ca …
pelagius_i · c. 559 · score 0.01
But because they have separated themselves from the universal Church, as blessed Augustine says: Every Catholic rightly detests that party which he knows does not communicate with the universal Church, strengthened by the apostolic sees. Nor does their crime become lighter — rather it grows heavier — because, as you ha …