Resultados25 letters/passages
epistulae_merowingici · c. 604 · score 0.02
Theudebert, king, to the most holy Pope Gregory. I write to the successor of Peter with the reverence due his office and with several requests that I believe are within his pastoral authority to grant. First: the ecclesiastical situation in several cities of my kingdom where the episcopal succession has been disputed r …
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.02
Peter's word and the Apostolic See's command, which neither present nor future generations will presume to change in defiance of the authority of the Apostolic See. Let it be known to you also, Holy Father, that Carloman, Emperor of the Franks, summoned me to his presence and desired me to convoke a synod in that part …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.02
From John, Bishop of Ravenna, to Pope Gregory. My most reverend colleague Castorius, notary of your Apostolic See, has delivered my lord's letter to me — a letter compounded of honey and venom. Yet it has driven its stings in deeply enough while still leaving room for the healing remedy. For my lord, even while he repr …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.02
They are not performing their penance in accordance with the sentence passed upon them but, on the contrary, they are still leading the people astray. For this reason I have been despatched with this letter from my master and offer it to Your Apostolic Holiness that it may be read out this sacred council. The reply was …
epistulae_merowingici · c. 596 · score 0.02
Brunhild, queen, to the most blessed and holy Pope Gregory. I write to the shepherd of all shepherds with respect for your office and with genuine need for your support. The work of building up the church in the territories I govern is ongoing, and it requires resources, patronage, and — I want to be honest — the prest …
boniface · c. 751 · score 0.02
It is my desire, sustained by your prayers and led by God's grace, to continue my close relations with you and to remain in your service among the German people to whom I was sent, and to follow your directions as it is written:[Ecclus iii.2] "Hear the judgment of your father, 0 my children, and so act that you may be …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
Leoban sent the letter to the city of Westphalia, where it was received by a priest Macrius. He sent the letter to Mont St. Michel. In the end, through the intervention of an angel, the letter reached Rome, even the tombs of the Apostles, where the keys of the kingdom of heaven are. And the twelve dignitaries who are i …
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
Of such matters the Apostle says reprovingly: " You have begun to observe special days and months, special seasons and years. I am anxious over you: has all the labour I have spent on you been useless? " And St. Augustine says: " The man who puts his faith in such nonsense as incantations, fortune-tellers, soothsayers, …
boniface · c. 752 · score 0.01
[Context: On the death of Pope Zacharias a certain Stephen was elected (23 March 752) but died three days later before his consecration could take place. Early writers did not include him in the fist of Popes and this has caused confusion in the numbering of the Popes Stephen. Tbe Pope who is addressed here is Stephen …
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
Among them are bishops who deny the charges of fornication and adultery but who, nevertheless, are shiftless drunkards, addicted to the chase, who march armed into battle and shed with their own hands the blood of Christians and heathens alike. Since I am recognised as the servant and legate of the Apostolic See, my de …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
In the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. In the twenty-sixth year of the reign of our august lord, the Emperor Constantine, in the fifth year of his consulship, the 25th of October, the fourteenth indiction, the holy and blessed Pope Zacharias presided over a council held in the Lateran Basilica, at which the following b …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.01
John, bishop of Ravenna, to his most holy lord and most blessed father Gregory, pope. I have received your letter with the corrections and reproaches it contained, and I address each point in turn with as much humility and honesty as I can manage. You have been harder on me than I expected, but perhaps not harder than …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
They should receive a sentence commensurate with their crimes." Zacharias, the Pope, said: " It is rather too late today, but at the next session, when we have heard the account of his life, the prayer he composed for himself and the rest of his malpractices, we may, by the help of God, come to a unanimous decision on …
boniface · c. 751 · score 0.01
The Pontiff also told me to make reports to the Apostolic See on the life and customs of the races I visited. And this I hope that I have done. But on the matter which I made known to you about the archbishops making their pleas for pallia from Rome, as the Franks promised they would, I crave the indulgence of the Apos …
boniface · c. 751 · score 0.01
To the most reverend and beloved lord and master to be revered in fear and honour, Zacharias, invested with the privilege of the apostolic office and raised to the dignity of the Apostolic See, Boniface, your humble and most unworthy servant, but your devoted legate in Germany, sends greetings of unfailing love. I beg …
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
[Context: Pope Zacharias (741-52) was of Greek extraction. He seems to have been less understanding of Boniface's difficulties than the previous Popes, though to him must be ascribed the confirmation of the synods and much else that Boniface undertook. It was through his efforts that the Synod of Cloveshoe in England, …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
By such pretence he was able by degrees, as St. Paul says, to make his way into house after house, captivating weak women whose consciences were burdened by sin and swayed by shifting passions. He also deceived great numbers of simple folk who thought that he was a man of truly apostolic character because he had wrough …
epistulae_merowingici · c. 585 · score 0.01
Guntchramn, king, to the most blessed Gregory. I am aware that the Frankish church — even the part of it under my direct rule — does not always present a picture that the bishop of Rome would find wholly admirable. I want to address this honestly rather than defensively. The things that are wrong: bishops appointed for …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
11 The holy bishops and venerable priests replied: " What else can we do except consign these writings, which have been read out to us, to the flames and to strike their authors with anathema? The names of the eight angels whom Aldebert invokes in his prayer are., with the exception of Michael, not angels but demons wh …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
He was sprung from simple parents and was crowned by the grace of God. For Whilst he was in his mother's womb the grace of God came upon him, and before his birth his mother saw, as in a vision, a calf issuing from her right side. This calf symbolized the grace which he had received from an angel before he came forth f …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
Jerome, St. Augustine and St. Gregory. He despises all synodal decrees and declares on his own authority that, even though he has had two children born to him during his episcopate, he can still exercise the functions of a Christian bishop. He accepts the Old Testament ruling that a man can if he wishes, marry his brot …
epistulae_langobardorum · c. 596 · score 0.01
Theudelinda, queen, to the most blessed and holy Gregory, bishop of Rome. Your letters are a source of more strength to me than you may know. To be a Catholic queen in an Arian court is a position that requires a certain kind of loneliness — the loneliness of believing something that the people around you do not share, …
boniface · c. 753 · score 0.01
But this he did not do. He did not preach to the Frisians nor convert them to Christianity. The Frisian people remained pagans until Sergius, Pontiff of the Roman See., sent Willibrord as bishop and teacher to them. He it was who converted them to the faith of Christ. Now the Bishop of Cologne wishes to annex this see …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
When the Holy Gospels had been placed in the middle of the assembly, Gregory, the regional notary and nomenclator, announced in the presence of the deacons and the clergy: " In accordance with the command given by Your Holiness in the last session that Denehard, the priest, should appear before you today, he is waiting …
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 589 · score 0.01
To the most holy and blessed Pope Gregory, bishop of the apostolic see of Rome, from Reccared, king of the Goths, in the name of the Lord, The grace of almighty God, who has guided our people from the darkness of error into the light of truth, moves me to share with you the great thing that has happened in our kingdom. …