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pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. Sempronius Caelianus acted in conformity with my commands in sending to you the slaves, into whose case we must inquire to see whether they have deserved capital punishment. But it all depends on whether they volunteered to serve, or whether they were picked out for service or even offered as substitut …
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 …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. There is no necessity, my dear Pliny, to employ more soldiers in guarding the prisons. Let us continue to observe the custom of your province which utilised the public slaves for that purpose, for it depends upon the severity and attention you show whether they will perform their duties faithfully. As …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.02
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. 745 · score 0.02
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 …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.02
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. 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 …
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 …
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 …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
In the form that their heresy takes they differ from each other, but they are. Alike in their degree of error. "Since I am weak, I beg Your Apostolic Holiness to protect me against them by your authority and to lead back the Franks and Gauls to the right path by a written statement, so that they may no longer accept th …
jerome · c. 409 · score 0.01
Jerome to a Mother and her Daughter — greetings. A brother from Gaul has brought me a situation that frankly defies parody. He tells me that his widowed mother and his virgin sister — both of them supposedly living in consecrated celibacy, both of them in the same city — have taken separate houses, and that each of the …
jerome · c. 409 · score 0.01
You are not a woman who needs managing. You are a woman who chose God. Act accordingly. To both: Live together. You are mother and daughter. You belong under the same roof, supporting each other, bearing witness together to a common vocation. The separation itself is part of the problem — it suggests that neither of yo …