Letter 1,52 - to John, bishop of Sorrento. July 591.
"It is easy to give one's consent to religious desires, so that faithful devotion achieves a rapid outcome. And since Sabinus, abbot of the monastery of Saint Stephen on the isle of Capri, has advised us that he has long since held at his place the relics of the martyred Saint Agatha, as agreed to, and since he wants these holy relics themselves to be located in his monastery, for that reason we bid you to visit the aforesaid monastery and, if it is agreed that the body of no one has been buried there, you will place the aforesaid holy relics there with due solemnity, to achieve the purpose of her devotion."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 175.
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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