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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
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 …
pelagius_ii · c. 585 · score 0.02
Pelagius, bishop of the city of Rome, to his most beloved brother Aunarius. I write to commend to you the orthodox faith of the Frankish kings, and to urge you to use your influence with them on a matter of the gravest practical importance. The Lombards who occupy much of Italy are not merely a military threat to the r …
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 …
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 …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Gregory to Cyprianus, deacon. The question has arisen about the schedule on which the bishops of Sicily are to make their visits to Rome. The old custom was every three years; I am establishing that the new arrangement will be every five years. This change is made in recognition of the difficulties of travel in the pre …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
As soon as it was possible for us to draw breath from the tempest of continual wars, which the circumstances of the times have relentlessly inflicted upon those provinces and these alike, we resolved to address all the priests of the Lord throughout Dardania with the concern of fraternal charity. First, because having …
leo_great · c. 445 · score 0.01
In my sincere desire -- shared by the bishops who are with me -- that you, most Christian and revered emperor, should above all things please God, to whom the prayers of the whole Church are poured out in one voice for your reign, I offer you this counsel. I fear that if we keep silent on so great a matter, we shall fa …
innocent_i · c. 416 · score 0.01
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 …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.01
On this point we suspect you are forgetful of our instruction: for we said that, with the occupiers excluded, those of whom we speak should return to their own churches, so that the others may be ordained elsewhere, if they are indeed of the right faith. Regarding the persons of the Scythian monks, the illustrious Just …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
Having solemnly offered the libellus, we report that we have admitted the one offering it to our communion. We commend Paulinus, defender of the Roman church, and we urge that you not leave anything undisposed through haste for your return, because all things are better arranged with the passage of time and with the he …
boniface · c. 732 · score 0.01
If you find that he has fallen into error again we command you by the authority of the Holy See to correct and discipline him in accordance with the sacred canons, as also any other person you should meet like him. For when he came here he said, " I am a priest ", and he asked for letters of recommendation to our son C …
gregory_great · c. 603 · score 0.01
Gregory to Phocas Augustus. It gives us joy to consider, with rejoicing and deep thanksgiving, what praises we owe Almighty God now that the yoke of sorrow has been lifted and we have come to times of freedom under the imperial authority of Your Benign Piety. That Your Serenity has not found a deacon of the Apostolic S …
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 …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.01
It befits us to stand with feet firmly planted: we shall profit amid our adversaries by our own goods, if we are not entangled in the errors of others; for whoever is unmoved when pushed proves the strong vigor of his own virtue. Where are the stings of varied temptation not found? What cunning deceptions, veiled with …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
Upon reading the letters of your love, through which the madness of the enemies of God was revealed and the persistent fury of the faithless was painfully set forth — who, while with a revived evil spirit they hate the Lord, impiously persecute his members — as far as recognizing your constancy, I blessed God, who guar …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
If we attempt to use worthy preambles, it is necessary to produce them with many tears. For very many of us were residing in Constantinople when your most holy representatives — the bishops Ennodius and Fortunatus, the priest Venantius, the deacon Vitalis [and the notary Hilarus] — came as legates of the faith. [This i …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
We received the illustrious and most reverend bishop with a grateful spirit, not only for the honor that is owed to priests, but also out of affection for your holiness; for whomever has been approved by your judgment is also judged most approved in our estimation. Concerning the effort and support, however, that must …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.01
We were unable to restrain them by admonitions, by gentleness, or by authority. They went so far as to appear in a public assembly, crying out even around the statues of the emperors to shake the public peace, and had not the constancy of the faithful people resisted, through the abominable seeds of diabolical tares th …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
As soon as it was possible for us to draw breath from the tempest of continual wars, which the circumstances of the times have relentlessly inflicted upon those provinces and these alike, we resolved to address all the priests of the Lord throughout Dardania with the concern of fraternal charity. First, because having …
pope_hilary · c. 466 · score 0.01
Hilary, bishop of Rome, to our beloved brothers the bishops of Africa, greetings in Christ. We write to you across the sea that separates us — a separation that has made the maintenance of proper communication more difficult than it should be, and that has allowed certain problems to develop that might have been addres …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.01
Gregory to Barbara and Antonina. I was delighted in every way to receive your letter and to hear that you are well. I pray Almighty God to guard you by his protection from malignant spirits in your thoughts, from wicked men, and from every kind of adversity -- and that by the grace of his holy fear, he may settle you i …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
Likewise: if they are not heretics, after they were accused in official proceedings by Candidus, the deputy of the master of soldiers of the praetorium, in the court of the prefects, and they recognized that swift danger was approaching, why then, as though about to be condemned, did they again exercise such great numb …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.01
Just as it is consonant with reason that those who are in doubt should seek counsel, so it is equally fitting to respond to those who seek it, because the one who does not instruct the ignorant himself drives them into error, and nothing is more fitting for one zealous in religion than the inquiry after truth, since on …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
But what wonder if the sheep, having abandoned that one true shepherd, were scattered and the cunning, bloodthirsty, and rapacious one disturbed them with his snares? Those who desert their own protection expose themselves to the dangers by which they are torn apart. Therefore now at least with firm steps persist in th …