Letter 2,1 - to Gregory's notary Peter. September 591.
"We have learnt that the monastery of the Holy Archangel which was built at Tropeae, has a shortage of provisions, as is indicated by the bearer of this letter. For that reason, your Experience should keep a careful watch over this matter, and if you find that the monks of the same place are conducting themselves well, and it proves abundantly clear that there are those in need among them, then you will hurry in every way to assist them, supporting by this authority, knowing that whatever you provide at our request is to be charged to your account."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 194.
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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