Resultados25 letters/passages
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
Like him too he had with him a Cerberus, not three headed but many headed, ready to seize and rend everything within his reach. He tore betrothed daughters from their mothers' arms and sold high-born maidens in marriage to those greediest of men, the merchants of Syria. No plea of poverty induced him to spare either wa …
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 …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Variae, Appendix, Letter 8 — Pope Gelasius I to the Bishop of Nola Felix and Petrus, clergy of the church of Nola, have rebelliously and in violation of established order rushed to the court of my son the king, claiming that violence had been done to them — their clerical office having been passed over in silence — and …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
You are awaited by the whole, you have the power of ordering all things, of declaring war, arousing the generals, bidding arms to be taken up, forming the battle-array, sounding the trumpets on every side, and finally of entering the conflict with your own person in the van; since for long, alas, as is obvious in this …
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. …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
5. Why do I still delay to relate the sequel? When her wedding day was now close at hand and when a marriage chamber was being got ready for the bride and bridegroom; secretly without any witnesses and with only the night to comfort her, she is said to have nerved herself with such considerations as these: What ails yo …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius to Ereleua. [Pope Gelasius I (r. 492-496) writes to Ereleua, the mother of King Theodoric the Great. This letter, preserved among the Variae, concerns clerics who have violated Church jurisdiction by seeking recourse in secular courts.] I am astonished that Felix and Petrus, clerics of the church of Nola, …
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 628 · score 0.01
A letter from the Visigothic court to Pope Honorius I [r.625-638] on questions of church relations and Iberian ecclesiastical autonomy. The Visigothic kingdom maintained largely independent church governance while acknowledging Roman primacy, and this letter navigates that careful balance — seeking papal approval for d …
leo_great · c. 461 · score 0.01
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 …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Who would believe it? That Proba, who of all persons of high rank and birth in the Roman world bears the most illustrious name, whose holy life and universal charity have won for her esteem even among the barbarians, who has made nothing of the regular consulships enjoyed by her three sons, Probinus, Olybrius, and Prob …
jerome · c. 415 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent to his most esteemed friend and brother Aurelius — greetings. Our fellow presbyter Jerome has informed us of your most devoted desire to visit us. We share in his suffering as we would in the suffering of any member of our own flock. We have acted with the promptness that the situation requires and taken …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
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 …
basil_caesarea · c. 362 · score 0.01
To the bishops of the Western Church: Brothers, Even in the middle of everything we're suffering here, God has given me real comfort. Bishop Athanasius [the great champion of Nicene orthodoxy, then bishop of Alexandria] forwarded your letters to me, and they were exactly what I needed to read. Your faith is solid. You …
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 …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
Letter 5 LETTER V To the most fair Head of all the Churches of the whole of Europe, estimable Pope, exalted Prelate, Shepherd of Shepherds, most reverend Bishop; the humblest to the highest, the least to the greatest, peasant to citizen, a prattler to one most eloquent, the last to the first, foreigner to native, a poo …
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 …