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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 …
boniface · c. 722 · score 0.02
[Context: This oath is based upon one usually taken by the bishops of the sub-urbicarian sees, but here there is no expression of loyalty to the emperor - it has been changed into submission to the Holy See.] In the name of God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ. In the sixth year of Leo, by the grace of God crowned emper …
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. 742 · score 0.02
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 0.02
[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 0.02
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. 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. 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. 753 · score 0.01
To his venerable and beloved apostolic lord and Pope Stephen, Boniface, a humble legate or messenger in Germany of the Catholic and Apostolic Church, sends greetings of love in Christ. In the time of Sergius [687-701], Pontiff of the Apostolic See, there came to the shrine of the Apostles a Saxon priest of great holine …
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
She is known to be related in the third degree to the man who wishes to marry her and who now declares that the necessary permission has been granted. Furthermore, before her first marriage she had made a solemn vow of chastity and, after taking the veil, threw it aside. For this marriage the man states that he has per …