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innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.02
Rescript of the Emperor Honorius sent to the Emperor Arcadius. 1. Although regarding the statue of a woman, carried about through the provinces as a new precedent, and through the talk of detractors spread throughout the whole world, I have already urged in other letters that through repentance for such a deed and aban …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Whatever it was my duty to do in humility, I have not neglected. But if I am disregarded in my reproof, I will have no choice but to bring the matter before the Church. May Almighty God show you, brother, how great a love for you constrains me in saying these things, and how deeply I grieve in this matter -- not agains …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.02
Gregory to John, bishop of Velitrae. Given the present dangers [the Lombard invasions that were making many Italian towns unsafe], the episcopal seat of your church is to be transferred to a more secure location. This decision has been made for the safety of the clergy and people and for the continuation of proper epis …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
Book I, Letter 79 To Martinus, Bishop in Corsica. Gregory to Martinus. When people ask for what is just, we should listen with a willing ear, so that petitioners may find the remedy they hope for and the Church is not left without a shepherd's care. Since the church of Tanates [a town in Corsica], where Your Fraternity …
leo_great · c. 461 · score 0.02
Endure with patience what you cannot change, and trust that the same Lord who gave you the charge will give you the strength to bear it. III. Replies to his canonical questions To the specific questions you have raised, we respond as follows: Concerning those who, under threat of torture or death during barbarian invas …
innocent_i · c. 416 · score 0.02
Pope Innocent I to Florentinus, Bishop of Tibur. Divine Scripture cries out not once but many times that the boundaries established by the fathers are not to be transferred. It is wrong for one person to seize what another has always possessed. Innocent writes to Florentinus because someone has intruded into a foreign …
innocent_i · c. 402 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to John, Bishop of Jerusalem. The noble holy virgins Eustochium and Paula have lamented to Innocent with tears the plunderings, killings, fires, and every kind of outrage of extreme madness that the devil has perpetrated in the places of John's church; they withheld the name of the man responsible. Alth …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.01
Gregory to Victor and Columbus, Bishops of Africa. We know from our own experience in this life how a disease, if neglected at its onset, gains strength. If it were met by skilled physicians at the start, it would be stopped before the far greater harm that comes from attending to it too late. Reason compels us, then, …
gregory_great · c. 602 · score 0.01
Gregory to John, Bishop of Ravenna. We are commanded by the Lord's precepts to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to share in their afflictions as though they were our own infirmities. Mindful of these commands, your fraternity, with fitting devotion, first showed compassion by visiting our brother and fellow bishop …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.01
Gregory to Barbara and Antonina. Most beloved daughters, I received your Glory's letter -- written more in tears than in words -- and I am touched by no less sorrow than you feel for your father's illness. The law of charity makes your sadness my own. But even in the direst circumstances, we must not lose trust in the …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.01
When these things were suddenly made known to us, I confess we were stricken. For who, in so bloody a crime, would not fear the offense of Almighty God? Or in what way could anyone think it beyond the utmost danger of the Roman world and of all mortals — when God Almighty, the author of our empire and the governor of t …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
We cannot properly govern those entrusted to us unless we pursue with the zeal of faith those who are both destroyers and themselves destroyed, cutting them off from contact with sound minds with all the severity we can bring to bear, lest this pestilence spread further. I urge you, beloved -- I implore and warn you -- …
simplicius_pope · c. 479 · score 0.01
Pope Simplicius to Emperor Zeno. Simplicius urges Zeno to expel Peter Mongus from the city of Alexandria. Recently, when certain matters were brought to his attention, he had occasion to write to the emperor on this subject. He insists that Peter Mongus, who was condemned by the orthodox party and by the apostolic see, …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Was it not the case -- as you well know -- that the prelates of this Apostolic See, which by God's providence I now serve, were offered the title of "universal" by the venerable Council of Chalcedon? Yet not one of them ever accepted it or claimed this ill-advised name, lest by seizing the glory of singularity by virtu …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
All that was foretold has come to pass. The king of pride draws near, and -- terrible to say -- an army of priests is being marshaled for him, since those appointed as leaders in humility have enlisted under the banner of pride. But in this matter, even if I said nothing at all, the power of Him who personally and uniq …
simplicius_pope · c. 482 · score 0.01
Pope Simplicius to Emperor Zeno (482, fragment). A fragment of a letter in which Simplicius addresses the emperor on the increasingly troubled situation in the Eastern churches. He protests against the Henotikon or related measures that are compromising Chalcedonian orthodoxy, urges Zeno to reverse course, and reminds …
symmachus · c. 372 · score 0.01
The fortunes of our shared homeland have been reduced to such dire straits that the worst must be avoided. I want to send your brother back to you immediately. Please provide him with pack animals so that his haste can be properly supported. As for my daughter, she must not be subjected to the hardship of travel, as I …
leo_great · c. 460 · score 0.01
Nevertheless, the first marriage retains its validity, and when the first husband returns, the woman must go back to him. The children born of the second union are not to be considered illegitimate, for they were born in a marriage contracted in good faith. III. On men who were weakened in faith during captivity If any …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
Gregory to Marinianus, bishop of Ravenna. The bearers of this letter, coming to us from the regions of Istria, desired, with the Lord's help, to be received into the unity of the Church. We received them with affection in praise of their desire, and after giving them an exhortation concerning the conversion they had ac …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 33 To Romanus, Patrician and Exarch of Italy [the Emperor's chief military and civil representative in Italy, based in Ravenna]. Gregory to Romanus. Even without an immediate reason to write, we ought to stay in touch about your health and safety through regular correspondence, so we can hear the news we …
boniface · c. 743 · score 0.01
Peter, the Apostle, or in the city of Rome, we consider them to be sinful and pernicious not only for us but for all Christians, according to God's word in the Scriptures: " Jacob needs no soothsayer, Israel no divination: time will reveal the marvellous things God does to them." We consider also that auguries and divi …
pope_symmachus · c. 508 · score 0.01
King Sigismund to Pope Symmachus — dictated by Bishop Avitus in the name of the lord King Sigismund, addressed to Pope Symmachus of Rome. Through the deacon Julian, King Sigismund requests sacred relics from Pope Symmachus, having already received others previously. 1. Since the sacred pledges of relics, with which thr …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Book II, Letter 37 To Maximianus, Bishop of Syracuse [Gregory's trusted deputy in Sicily]. Gregory to Maximianus. I must write to your Fraternity about a situation that requires pastoral attention. We have learned that certain monks in the province of Sicily are wandering about without any supervision, neither observin …
symmachus · c. 398 · score 0.01
We've returned to our home and household gods, only to find a few unpleasant surprises. Our estate at Ostia is being hit by repeated encroachments. But if things are going well for you, send me a letter -- its good cheer will clear away the cloud of my present troubles.
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
Gregory to the lord Venantius, Patrician, and Italica his wife. With due affection, I have made inquiries of certain people who have come from Sicily about Your Excellency's health. But the report they gave me was a sad one, full of accounts of your frequent ailments. When I say this, I have nothing better to report ab …