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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 …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Before him, pagan rulers who knew nothing of the true God but worshipped idols of wood and stone still paid the highest respect to their priests. How much more fitting, then, that a Christian emperor should honor the priests of the true God, when pagan rulers knew how to honor priests who served gods of wood and stone? …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
On my own account I was not at all disturbed. My conscience bears me witness: I was prepared to endure any hardship, so long as I emerged from it all with my soul intact. But I have grieved deeply for the distinguished men Gregory the prefect and Castorius the military commander, who neglected nothing that could be don …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Gregory to the Emperor Mauricius. The generosity of my Lords, which has always mercifully sustained your servants, has shone forth here in so generous a supply that the needs of all who are weak and suffering have been relieved by your bounty. For this we all pray with tears to Almighty God -- who moved your Clemency t …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
If the captivity of my land were not growing worse by the day, I would gladly pass over in silence the contempt and ridicule directed at me. But what afflicts me deeply is that my being branded a liar means Italy is dragged further under the Lombard yoke daily. While my reports go unbelieved, the enemy's strength grows …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.02
Gregory to the Emperor Maurice. Amid the cares of warfare and the innumerable anxieties which you sustain in your tireless zeal for the governance of the Christian empire, it gives me great joy along with the whole world that your Piety ever keeps watch over the custody of the faith by which the empire of our lords shi …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Emperor Mauricius. The most serene commands of my Lords, while undertaking to correct me on certain points, have spared me in a way that is no kindness at all. By using the word "simplicity," you politely call me a fool. It is true that in Holy Scripture, when simplicity is spoken of favorably, it is alw …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Emperor Mauricius. In you, most Christian of rulers, the uncorrupted soundness of faith shines like a beam from heaven. All know that Your Serenity embraces with fervor and wholehearted devotion the pure profession of faith in which, by God's favor, you are strong. I have therefore thought it essential t …
gregory_great · c. 596 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Emperor Maurice. Almighty God, who has made your Piety the guardian of the Church's peace, preserves you by means of the very faith which you preserve through unity among priests; and when you humbly submit your heart to the yoke of heavenly loving-kindness, it comes about through heavenly grace that you …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Emperor Mauricius. Anyone who is not blameless in all he does and says toward our most serene sovereigns is guilty before Almighty God. I, however, your Piety's unworthy servant, speak in this appeal neither as a bishop nor as your subject by right of the state, but in a private capacity — for, most sere …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
For if the priests of God cannot be at unity, how shall they pray effectively for you? And so I commend the Emperor's concern and am grateful for it. Now, concerning the title of "Universal Bishop" that my brother and fellow bishop John of Constantinople has presumed to adopt -- which none of my predecessors ever conse …
gregory_great · c. 596 · score 0.01
Gregory to Mauricius Augustus [Emperor Maurice]. Most pious lord, your thoughtful concern for the unity of the holy Church -- lest any scandal arise from disagreements among bishops -- has repeatedly led you to urge me to receive the representatives of my brother and fellow bishop Cyriacus kindly, and to let them retur …