Letter 1,54 to Sub-deacon Peter. July 591.
"We indicate to you that with our Lord's help we have decided that in the month of August, the oratory of the blessed Mary, which was recently built in the monastery of the brethren where the abbot Marinianus is recognized as the superior, is to be dedicated with the greatest care. Thus what we set in motion is to be brought to a conclusion, with the assistance of God.
But because the poverty of that monastery demands that we must cooperate with you on the festival day itself, for that reason in celebrating the dedication, we want you to give ten gold coins to relieve the poor, and thirty amphorae of wine, two hundred sacks of corn, two large jars of olive oil, twelve rams and a hundred chicken."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 176.
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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