Resultados25 letters/passages
hormisdas · c. 521 · score 0.02
Since it was necessary for letters to be sent to our lord and son, the most merciful emperor, we commend to the amplitude of your eminence the legates we have dispatched, asking that you deign to support them in the work entrusted to them, and assist their efforts with your authority at court, so that the cause of eccl …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.02
Well and usefully does your serenity exercise the care of the imperial office, not only in administering the business of the republic but in ennobling it with better institutions, and through the care of restoring unity appeases the author of your venerable empire. For those who reign are secure in th …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.02
The peace of the churches is now being composed by heavenly ordinance, since God has chosen you for the empire — in whom he knew the affection for his religion to be always entire. For just as in your private life you always worshipped God with right doctrine, so that you might think about the concord of religion, so n …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.02
Your clemency rightly has confidence, as you have declared in the glorious communications sent to me, that it specially profits your republic if the cause of the orthodox faith is placed before all other things. For this is the more salutary concern of a ruler who has received the governance: to conciliate for himself …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.02
Our spirit is rendered anxious by the long delay of expectation; having been dispatched to so great an emperor, you ought to have informed us more quickly. For we believed we would be able to receive your letters before Ascension Day. Therefore, desiring to learn both the signs of your well-being and the progress of th …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.02
The piety of almighty God, entreated by the prayers of your blessedness, has deigned to bestow upon us a prince of such great faith that the restoration of ecclesiastical peace, which was demanded by the prayers of all the faithful, may justly be seen to have been conferred through the most religious merits of his clem …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
We rightly confess that the grace of the divine gift has dawned upon us, knowing by the assertion of this letter that the reverence of your apostleship holds our memory in its holy heart. For with true hope we trust that the propitiation of heavenly mercy comes through the intercession of the pontiff, most blessed lord …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
We have received what your love communicated in the letters you sent, and we rejoice that the evidence of your faith has reached our knowledge, desiring that God may deign to grant full effect toward ecclesiastical peace to your intention, which we wish to be right. We have conceived hope of this from the heavenly maje …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
It is fitting that God's blessings, though they should be made known to many, should above all be declared to the highest pontiffs. Accordingly, we announce to your holiness through these sacred letters that, first by the favor of the inseparable Trinity, then by the authority of the most distinguished officials of our …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
The Catholic Church sends its congratulations to the venerable first fruits of your reign, most glorious son, in place of a gift, through which it trusts that after so great a weariness of discord it will find the rest of peace. Nor is there any doubt that you have reached the summit of power by heavenly providence, so …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.01
Let your apostolate therefore show that it has deservedly succeeded the apostle Peter, since the Lord will demand from you as the chief pastors the salvation of all who can be saved once concord has been established. For once the articles about which you have received the letters are settled, we will no longer permit a …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
Hormisdas to the Illustrious men, jointly. Although our concern for the ecclesiastical cause has never ceased, we have now been more promptly spurred by the sacred communications of the most serene Emperor, and we have sent legates with the favor of heavenly mercy — through whose office the good things we anticipate fr …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
Reviewing your merits before the empire, we proclaim that you have been chosen by God to restore peace to the Church. We recall your well-known piety and your devotion to the orthodox faith, which you demonstrated even before you ascended to the throne. It was not by human contrivance but by divine providence that the …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
We know that the spirit of your magnificence is so vigorous with devotion to religion that you wish a benefit to the perfection of the peace of the church to be demanded from you rather than merely requested, judging that it profits the merits of your excellency that it falls to you to offer what the desire of the whol …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
We bless the ineffable aid of the divinity, because we have learned that the desire of the whole world for the peace of the churches has been fulfilled in tranquility. This indeed did not happen beyond our expectation, because from the character of the most religious Augustus we always held hope for peace and believed …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
We received the illustrious and most reverend bishop with a grateful spirit, not only for the honor that is owed to priests, but also out of affection for your holiness; for whomever has been approved by your judgment is also judged most approved in our estimation. Concerning the effort and support, however, that must …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
The good endeavor of good will is always accompanied by the effect of divine prosperity. By the providence of our God, an opportunity of time has been offered in which you ought to strive for the reward of your faith. Presuming first upon the mercy from above, and then upon the conscience of the most merciful prince, w …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
To the bishop of the universal Church — from Anastasia. We rightly declare that the grace of a divine gift has dawned upon us, knowing from the evidence of your letter that Your Apostolate holds our memory in your holy heart. For we trust with genuine hope that the propitiation of heavenly mercy comes through the inter …
hormisdas · c. 522 · score 0.01
When we were dismissing the most blessed bishop Germanus and those who had been sent with him from this royal city, we laid upon them a charge of this kind: that through John, the most reverend bishop, certain chapters should be transmitted to your holiness concerning questions which had been raised and which seemed to …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
How great an eagerness and what desire the most pious and most Christian emperor has for the perfect union of all the churches, he has shown not merely by will but by his very deeds to those dwelling in this royal city, even before he came to the throne granted to him by God. To your holiness, moreover, he has made it …
hormisdas · c. 523 · score 0.01
I have been filled with much joy, because concerning the peace of the Church, both the most holy emperor and your love have shown such zeal as you have communicated through your letters and as I have learned through the arrival of my legates. For from this a clear proof of heavenly grace comes forth, when the rulers of …
hormisdas · c. 521 · score 0.01
Concerning those things which the report of your love's actions has set forth, we give thanks to our God, who has deigned to assist your labor, and we exhort you to press upon the most merciful emperor and his most pious consort, the Augusta, with the proper attentions, and to act, with Christ our Lord assisting and wi …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
Your son, the magnificent Justinianus, acting in accordance with his faith, has established a basilica of the holy apostles, in which he desires the relics of the blessed martyr Lawrence to be placed as well: he hopes through our humble agency that you will swiftly grant the relics of the aforesaid saints. The petition …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
Therefore we beseech you and adjure you through the divine mercy to bestow upon their cause, which is just, the highest patronage and the affection of your proven energy, following closely the footsteps of the most pious emperor, so that he may at last restore them to their churches, both out of regard for piety and in …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
John, most blessed man, the bishop of this royal city, and other reverend bishops found here from various places and cities, have informed our serenity that they have composed letters to be offered to your holiness for the concord of those who cultivate the true and orthodox faith, and for the unity of its venerable ch …