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gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.02
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 …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.02
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 …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
Gelasius, bishop, to all the bishops throughout Dardania and Illyricum. 1. Hearing of the orthodox constancy of your love in Christ, and that you so cling to the traditions of the ancient faith and sincere communion that the neighboring contagion of the transgressors has in no way infected a mind devoted to Christian t …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Vincomalo (495). A second receipt of the same kind. Gelasius acknowledges to Vincomalo that he has paid into the accounts of the church from the proceeds of a farm which he holds under a tenancy agreement, for the fruits of the year of the consulship of Asterius and Praesidius, men of the highest ran …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.02
Although entangled amid the various difficulties of the times and scarcely able to draw breath from continual occupations, yet treating without ceasing the care of the entire flock of the Lord for the governance of the apostolic see, which was delegated by the very voice of our Savior to the blessed Peter — and you, be …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
The Bishops of Dardania to Pope Gelasius I (494). The bishops announce with joy that they have received Gelasius's precepts with a willing spirit, and report that they had already long before avoided communion with Eutyches, Peter Mongus, Acacius, and their followers. They ask Gelasius to hear favourably the matters th …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Crispinus and Sabinus (c. 496). Two clergymen of the church of Grumentum — Silvester and Faustinianus — have tearfully complained to Gelasius that their master withheld from them the freedom which had been granted them by their owner. Gelasius commits the investigation of their claim to freed …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
After five hundred years they wish to subvert the things established by Christ. Saint Athanasius was not condemned by a synod of the East for this reason: because this see did not consent; nor was Saint John of Constantinople nor Saint Flavian condemned. If therefore those who were condemned by a synod of the East coul …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Majoricus and John (496). Because of the double murder of bishops in the church of the Scyllacians (Squillace), Gelasius deprives that church of the right of having its own bishop and commits it to the visitation of Majoricus and John. He also strictly forbids the superstitious practice, atte …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
Although for the governance of the blessed apostle Peter divinely instituted, by which the vicars of his see are indebted to all the churches, we have given suitable letters to our brothers and fellow bishops established throughout Dardania, following the path of the ancient faith and communion, so that they may be abl …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Rufinus and April (494). A similar decree concerning two serfs of Maxima, an illustrious and magnificent lady, who have been ordained as deacons in violation of the laws of princes and the rules of the fathers. The agents of Maxima have complained to Rome that Silvester and Candidus, her serf …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Herculentius, Stephanus, and Justus (494–496). Frequent and insistent complaints reach Gelasius about bishops who neither know the ancient canons nor obey his own decrees. This letter deals in particular with two serfs of Placidia, an illustrious lady, who have been ordained as deacons in vio …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to the Urban Estate-Managers (28 July 495). A receipt concerning certain revenues of the Roman Church for the year 494. Gelasius acknowledges that the estate-managers have paid into the accounts of the church from the proceeds of a farm which they hold under a tenancy agreement, during the third indicti …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
Hearing the orthodox steadfastness of your love in Christ and finding you so firmly attached to the traditions of the ancient faith and sincere communion that the neighboring contagion of apostates could in no way infect your mind dedicated to Christian truth, we magnified the Lord and took care with all eagerness of h …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Among the cares which the guardianship of the apostolic see imposes upon us, it is especially necessary for the moderation of the faith that whatever has been constituted by our predecessors concerning ecclesiastical discipline, we take care to preserve. But because time and circumstances sometimes demand, certain matt …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Laurentius, Bishop of Lychnidus (496). Having recently assumed the pontificate, Gelasius sends this letter as a kind of medicine for orthodoxy and, following the custom of his predecessors, despatches a statement of faith to the churches. He discusses the Acacian schism and the formula of faith that …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
I also perceived in my mind that the Greeks would remain in their obstinacy, nor should this seem unexpected to anyone, since it was foreseen in advance. Wherefore they do not so much strive to oppose the public arrangements on account of religious causes, but rather through the occasion of the royal embassy they endea …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
What then do these prudent men and those searching with sharp minds into the inner matters of religion, established in the regions of the East, say? If they knew that a person of this kind was placed in the church of Antioch, why did they provide their consent by communicating with such persons? Why did they not remove …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
Euphemius moreover, I am astonished if he does not himself recognize his own ignorance. For if he knew the canons, he would know that the apostolic see has the right to judge all and is judged by none, as the blessed Pope Gelasius declares. The two powers by which this world is principally governed are the sacred autho …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to the clergy, order, and people of Brindisi (494). Having granted the Brindisians the bishop they requested — Julian, now his brother and fellow bishop — Gelasius sends Julian back immediately to his church together with this letter. He presents the formal letter (litterae formatae) indicating what Jul …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.01
After the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, which we have enumerated above, the writings of the holy fathers who did not deviate from the fellowship of the holy Roman Church are to be received and read with devotion. The works of blessed Cyprian, of blessed Gregory of Nazianzus, of blessed Basil, of b …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.01
The case of Coelestinus is of such a nature that I think you also are not unaware of it. Since this man, being conscious and convicted in the murder of his parent and bishop, as the tenor of the documents shows, was judged by the verdict of all to be by no means worthy of the office of the altar, and for so detestable …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
This is the principle which we have followed in the case of Acacius, and those who object to it object not to our action but to the entire tradition of the Church from the time of the apostles. Let them read the history of every heresy from the beginning, and they will find that this has always been the practice. Those …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Zeja, Count (c. 495–496). Gelasius commends to Zeja the case of the clergymen Silvester and Faustinianus, who are pressing their claim to freedom before his jurisdiction. He reminds the count that it should always be gratifying to Christians to be asked to assist those with a just cause, and that it …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to John, Bishop of Sora (495). It is indeed established and prescribed by Gelasius's own orders that no one in a church or oratory not dedicated with the permission of the apostolic see is to be thought worthy of a public procession, and that donors may not use crafty usurpations to slip past the establ …