Letter 1,36 - to Malchus, bishop of Dalmatia. March 591.
"John, a most eloquent gentleman and counselor of that most excellent gentleman, Lord George, prefect of Italy, has suggested to us that he has some controversial matter to sort out with Stephen, bishop of the city of Scutari (...). For that reason we have taken care to advise your Fraternity with the present injunction, to compel the aforesaid bishop to come and select a tribunal. And whatever is determined by the judgement of those elected (...) you must not fail to make it effective. Thus may both the plaintiff give thanks that justice has resulted, and the defendant, when his case is brought to trail, make no complaint over a miscarriage of justice against himself."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 155.
About Me & About the Project
- Arnold Smeets
- BIO - I am a theologian. Radio broadcaster at Dutch Public Broadcast Organisation KRO-NCRV and Senior Research Fellow at CPO (Centre for Patristic Studies), the Netherlands. In 2007 I took my degree cum laude at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Tilburg on a semiotic analysis of three letters of Pope Gregory the Great (Ad Leandrum, concerning his own conversion, and Ep. xi,37 and Ep. xi,56, two instructions on the mission of the English). PROJECT - Every few days I'll blog a paragraph and twitter a line from one of Gregory the Great's Letters. Passages from the letters are quoted with kind permission of the publishers, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada.
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