Resultados11 letters/passages
pelagius_ii · c. 585 · score 0.02
May God therefore command him to come swiftly to our rescue, before the army of this most wicked nation — God forbid — is able to seize the places still held by the state. For "those who act wickedly shall be cut off, and the enemies" [Psalm 36:9] of the Lord shall perish. Send the priest back to us quickly, God willin …
pelagius_ii · c. 585 · score 0.02
Pelagius, bishop, to his beloved son Gregory, deacon [Gregory was serving as the papal ambassador (apocrisiarius) at the imperial court in Constantinople]. We have taken care to inform you of everything necessary through Honoratus the notary, whom we have sent to you along with our brother and fellow bishop Sebastianus …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 577 · score 0.02
To Gregory, for an Invitation Holy Gregory, you invite me with paternal love to come to Tours, where you pasture the Lord's flocks with love. There, where holy Martin [Saint Martin] with his abundant merits once kept the flocks he obtained, he has now given those flocks to you. And now by the sheepfolds and flowering p …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 591 · score 0.02
Another Greeting to Gregory Highest father of the homeland, lofty and universal summit, strong glory of your lineage, apex of Tours — light coming happily from the Arvernian fields, a beacon who, illuminating peoples, are scattered by your speech; hastening from those Alps, a mountain higher than the Alps themselves, a …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 590 · score 0.02
To Bishop Gregory — About His Illness The kind voice of Gregory the physician came to the sick man from the city of Tours, while I lay on a country bed — swiftly recited by the priest Leo in his calm way — that I should come where the festivals of holy Martin are held. Then, I confess, laboring heavily from the weaknes …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 593 · score 0.02
To Gregory, for a Farm Given A page celebrated its generous path — the one your love composed in sweet-flowing verse — in which by chance the gift of a place was made, where the lively Vienne [a river in western Gaul near Poitiers] breaks its waters on the shore, and when the sailor is carried in his swelling keel past …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 592 · score 0.01
Greeting to Gregory Whenever any sweet occasion comes to me, I wish, holy one, to fulfill my vows with my pen. Highest father of the homeland, venerable throughout the whole world, dear to me on every side, brilliant care of God — commending my humble self to you, holy Gregory, I ask that you pray to God on behalf of y …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 593 · score 0.01
To Gregory, for Furs Sent A page composed in splendid order, adorned with elegant turns and supported by Sophoclean [Sophocles — the great Athenian tragedian, here used as a general term for sophisticated classical style] wisdom — rich, it moistened my dryness with your pouring, and made what I now say come from your e …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 591 · score 0.01
To Gregory Bishop of the Lord, good shepherd and author of honor, rightly the glory of your race where faith is most noble: remember with kindness your servant Justina, blessed one; through you, even by your stock and your summit, father, may I too be commended. Giving thanks for the grandmother from here — because at …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 579 · score 0.01
Greeting to Gregory Shepherd, summit of honor, venerable bishop of your exalted seat, holy adornment of the fathers, love of religion — glory of bishops, holy palm of merit, Gregory, noble head rightly rising in your rank: Fortunatus, who asks for the help of Olympus to be granted through you, dear father — bring it ab …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 578 · score 0.01
Greeting to Gregory Highest of priests, rich faculty of goodness, summit in your honor, light in my love — venerable in sacred duties, nursing child of piety, to be held in the pledge of my friendship at heart — flourishing in holy studies and faithful in the sacred law, always performing the future gifts of your soul: …