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hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.02
Hormisdas to the Emperor Justin Augustus. When I read the pages of Your Clemency announcing the restoration of the concord of faith, the mind of the whole Church burst forth in joy into the canticle of divine praise, singing: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will!" [Luke 2:14] In the conf …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Since the city of Aufinum has been recovered, with God's help, and since great care must be taken for its church, especially since Hospoton, the master of soldiers in Italy, has sought our help in this matter, we have taken care to send this present letter to your fraternity so that you may go there as visitor. You mus …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.02
While each metropolitan retains his authority to ordain within his province, the ordination of metropolitans themselves must be conducted only after careful and considered judgment. We demand particular excellence in those who preside over their fellow priests. Attend to this with all diligence, so that you may be seen …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
To Trajan. Sempronius Caelianus, who is an excellent young officer, has sent me two slaves who were discovered among the recruits, and I have postponed their punishment in order to consult you, who are at once the founder and upholder of military discipline, as to the penalty I should inflict What makes me specially do …
gregory_great · c. 600 · score 0.02
Brothers and sisters, I have appointed Gaudiosus, bishop of Iguvium, as visitor to your community, and I write to ask — indeed to require — that you give him your full cooperation and obedience. A visitor arrives with the authority of this see, and resistance to his ministry is, in effect, resistance to this see itself …
leo_great · c. 460 · score 0.02
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to Leo Augustus. I. He sends envoys but urges against any fresh discussion of the faith Rejoicing that it has been demonstrated to me by many clear proofs how earnestly you safeguard the interests of the universal Church, I have not delayed in obeying your Majesty's instructions at the first opport …
leo_great · c. 460 · score 0.01
They have already been heard. They have already been answered. They have already been condemned. There is nothing left to discuss with them. If your Majesty permits the faith to be debated again, the heretics will interpret this not as an exercise of fairness but as an admission that the Council's definition was uncert …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.01
Gregory to Romanus the defender, Anthemius the subdeacon, and Savinus the subdeacon. What we ought willingly to bestow, we cannot deny when asked. And therefore, since our glorious son Romanus, the former praetor, has wished to commend his properties and the men who are in those parts to your experience, we command you …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
To Trajan. I beg you, Sir, to write and tell me whether you wish the permits, * the terms of which have expired, to be recognised as valid, and for how long, and so free me from my indecision. For I am afraid of blundering either one way or the other, either by confirming what ought to lapse, or by putting obstacles in …
pliny_younger · c. 107 · score 0.01
Remember, therefore, the past of each city, not that you may despise it for ceasing to be great - no, let there be no trace of haughtiness and disdain in your conduct. Do not be afraid that people will despise you for your kindness, for is any man with full military command and the fasces despised, unless he is craven- …
leo_great · c. 460 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to Leo Augustus, by the hand of Philoxenus, agens in rebus. I. The decrees of Chalcedon and Nicaea are identical and final My mind exults with great joy in the Lord, and I have abundant cause for thanksgiving, now that I perceive your clemency's most excellent faith being enlarged in all things by …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
To Trajan. Publius Attius Aquila, Sir, a centurion of the sixth cohort of horse, * asked me to forward to you a memorial in which he begs your indulgence on behalf of the status of his daughter. I thought it would be hard to deny him, especially as I know what a ready and kindly ear you turn to the requests of your sol …
hormisdas · c. 514 · score 0.01
The Emperor Anastasius, Pious, Fortunate, Renowned, Triumphant, Ever Augustus, to Hormisdas, Most Holy and Devout Archbishop and Patriarch. Your Beatitude is surely aware that divine Scripture, in its provident counsel, has ordained that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silent [Ecclesiastes 3:7]. Now that th …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.01
We recall that your Magnificence, during the time you were here in the city of Rome, learned that Bonifatius, a former accountant, had by his established testament left a certain portion of his inheritance to the hospice situated at the church of the blessed Peter, prince of the apostles. And since we said we would exe …
symmachus · c. 368 · score 0.01
Your first letter reached me — so short, so hurried, it seemed to be imitating your journey. But believe me, the brevity wasn't unwelcome. You managed to cover in a few concise lines everything I wanted to know about your well-being: how strong your health is, how quickly you arrived, what reception you found with our …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
He considers himself subject to no law, bound by no ordinance of God, and in his eagerness for novelty, departs from your practice and ours, adopting unlawful measures and letting what he ought to preserve fall into disuse. II. Hilary is disturbing the peace of the Church by his insubordination But with the approval, a …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
To Trajan. Maximus, Sir, your freedman and procurator, assures me that he absolutely requires some soldiers in addition to the ten privileged soldiers whom you ordered me to pass over to that worthy man Gemellinus. I thought it better to leave some of these in attendance upon him as I found them so engaged, especially …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
Gregory to Maurentius, military commander. A second matter has arisen that requires your attention. I described the first matter in my previous letter; the present matter is separate, though related in that it also requires the kind of coordination between military and ecclesiastical authority that I have come to depen …
pliny_younger · c. 100 · score 0.01
To Curius Severus. As Consul, it naturally devolved upon me to thank the Emperor in the name of the State. * After doing so in the senate in the usual way and in a speech befitting the place and the occasion, I thought that it would highly become me, as a good citizen, to cover the same ground in greater detail and muc …
symmachus · c. 367 · score 0.01
I hesitate to submit my writings to your eloquence, but I am equally careful not to refuse anything of mine to your affection. I have therefore sent you two short speeches recently published by me. One of them restrained a candidate who was resisting his appointment to the urban magistracy; the other took as its subjec …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
He claims for himself the right to ordain bishops throughout all the provinces of Gaul and seizes the dignity that belongs to metropolitan bishops. He even diminishes the reverence owed to the blessed Peter himself with his proud assertions, for while the power of binding and loosing was given to Peter before all other …
gregory_great · c. 604 · score 0.01
Gregory to John and Fortunatus, bishops, and Anthemius, subdeacon. What we ought willingly to bestow upon our sons, we should not deny them when they ask. And therefore, since our glorious son Gregorius, the former prefect, asks that the properties he has there, and his men, be commended to your fraternity, we direct y …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Was it not the case -- as you well know -- that the prelates of this Apostolic See, which by God's providence I now serve, were offered the title of "universal" by the venerable Council of Chalcedon? Yet not one of them ever accepted it or claimed this ill-advised name, lest by seizing the glory of singularity by virtu …
boniface · c. 719 · score 0.01
Finally, we command you that in admitting within the Church those who have some kind of belief in God you will insist upon using the sacramental discipline prescribed in the official ritual formulary of the Holy Apostolic See. Whatever means you find lacking in the furtherance of your work, you are to report to us as o …
hormisdas · c. 514 · score 0.01
The Emperor Anastasius Augustus to Pope Hormisdas. Delivered by Theopompus and Severianus, men of distinction. Everything that benevolence conceives is driven forward by a sweet eagerness of spirit and praiseworthy haste. Such desires grant themselves no rest until they have brought what is longed for to its most salut …