Resultados25 letters/passages
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.02
We had grieved until now at the barbarian raids devastating the provinces nearest to the city and the cruel tempest of wars, but as much as amid the very fervent dangers of recent calamities we have discovered, the devil has inflicted a more pernicious ruin upon the minds of Christians than hostile savagery has upon th …
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. 604 · score 0.02
The work of bringing the Barbaricini to the faith is one of the projects closest to my heart, and Bonifacius has been doing important work among them. I want you to support him — practically, administratively, in whatever ways you can. This is difficult mission territory and those working there need the backing of the …
innocent_i · c. 416 · score 0.02
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 …
gregory_great · c. 602 · score 0.02
Gregory to Prejectus [Praeiectus], Bishop of Narni [city in Umbria, central Italy]. It has come to our attention that, on account of our pressing sins, a deadly plague is raging unchecked in your city of Narni — a matter that has grieved us greatly. For this reason, greeting your brotherhood in every way, we urge that …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.02
When these things were suddenly made known to us, I confess we were stricken. For who, in so bloody a crime, would not fear the offense of Almighty God? Or in what way could anyone think it beyond the utmost danger of the Roman world and of all mortals — when God Almighty, the author of our empire and the governor of t …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
The church of Populonia has been left destitute of priestly ministry — there is no one there to give penance to the dying, no one to baptize the newly born. This state of affairs must be remedied immediately. I am therefore directing you to visit Populonia, assess the condition of the community, and ordain whatever pri …
boniface · c. 743 · score 0.01
Peter, the Apostle, or in the city of Rome, we consider them to be sinful and pernicious not only for us but for all Christians, according to God's word in the Scriptures: " Jacob needs no soothsayer, Israel no divination: time will reveal the marvellous things God does to them." We consider also that auguries and divi …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Nobles and Proprietors in Sardinia. I have learned from the report of my brother and fellow bishop Felix, and my son the servant of God Cyriacus, that nearly all of you have peasants on your estates who are given to idolatry. This has caused me great sorrow, because I know that the guilt of subordinates …
boniface · c. 743 · score 0.01
For a long time no council has been held there, and as a result many who call themselves priests hardly know what the priesthood is. When Carloman has put his promises into effect and you take your place by his side at the council, if you see bishops, priests or deacons living in adultery or having more than one wife i …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
To Trajan. Several persons have petitioned me to grant them leave, as other proconsuls have done before my time, to transfer to other resting-places the remains of their ancestors, owing to the ravages of time, the inundation of rivers, or some other similar reasons. Knowing as I do that in Rome the permission of the p …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.01
3. Although I, provoked by frequent injuries, ought to keep silent, and not so faithfully admonish a most closely joined brother and sharer of the kingdom, nevertheless, putting the bond of blood before the stimulus of silent grief, I exhort and urge that these things, if it can be done, be corrected by amendment of fu …
pope_felix_iii · c. 489 · score 0.01
Those who now defend Acacius defend his crimes, and those who communicate with his defenders share in his guilt. Let this be clearly understood by all, and let those who desire salvation hasten to separate themselves from the communion of the condemned before the day of judgment comes, when every deed shall be brought …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.01
For those whose authority was awaited, having granted peaceful communion to Bishop John, judged that harmony should be established, and did not think anyone should be expelled from fellowship before judgment. 5. What else now remains, but that schisms, torn apart in different directions, should lacerate the Catholic fa …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
Indeed his stolid and dull mind is such that concerning the poisons which he has badly drunk and vomited forth, he can neither receive nor render any account whatsoever, but hardened by diabolical blindness and already delivered over to himself, he stands condemned by the deadly obstinacy of his own heart, and nothing …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
[Instructions for Pullio, subdeacon.] With God's help and the prayers of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, when you arrive at Nicopolis, you must proceed as follows: after the bishop of Nicopolis has received our letters, he should gather the bishops who are in his diocese and have them sign the formal statement [libel …
pope_anastasius_ii · c. 496 · score 0.01
Anastasius, bishop of Rome, servant of the servants of God, to the glorious King Clovis of the Franks, greetings. The joy with which the beginning of my pontificate has been greeted is increased by the news that reaches me of your conversion to the Catholic faith. That the king of the Franks, who governs the most power …
gregory_great · c. 598 · score 0.01
Gregory to Fantinus, Defensor [church legal officer]. The Lady Abbess of the monastery of Saint Stephen in the territory of Agrigento [in Sicily] reports that many Jews there, moved by divine grace, wish to convert to the Christian faith -- but someone needs to go there on our authority to assist them. I am sending you …
innocent_i · c. 408 · score 0.01
We have received and read the letters which your charity sent through our son the deacon Pascentius, and we have carefully reviewed the matters which you referred to the judgment of the apostolic see. Although the rule of the fathers is clear enough and the canonical authorities leave nothing ambiguous, nevertheless si …
symmachus · c. 368 · score 0.01
Your letter was delivered to me while I was staying at the seventh milestone on the Via Ostiensis [the road from Rome to its port city of Ostia]. I immediately arranged through the distinguished vicarius [deputy prefect] to have the official records released at my request. But your servant left the city without my know …
simplicius_pope · c. 477 · score 0.01
Acacius of Constantinople to Pope Simplicius (before March 478). He reports that Timothy Aelurus has died, that Peter Mongus has fled, and that Timothy Salophaciolus has been restored to the see of Alexandria, offering the happiest hope for the correction of those who had been led astray; and that nothing is being omit …
gregory_great · c. 604 · score 0.01
Gregory to Felix, Bishop of Messana [Messina]. Our Head, which is Christ, has willed us to be his members for this purpose: that through his great charity and faithfulness he might make us one body in himself. We must cling to him, since without him we can do nothing, and through him we become what we are called. Let n …
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 …
innocent_i · c. 403 · score 0.01
If the institutions of the holy fathers are to be maintained, which we have no doubt your love preserves, since both the antiquity of customs and the apostolic authority commend them, we ought to observe those things which have been handed down to us by the tradition of the fathers and not to defile them by any innovat …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.01
Gregory to Serenus, Bishop of Marseilles. The opening of your letter showed me the priestly goodwill I would expect, and it increased my joy in your Fraternity. But the conclusion was so at odds with the beginning that one might think the letter was written by two different people. From your very doubts about the lette …