Letter 2,14 - to Maximian, Bishop of Syracuse. 29 February 592.
"A church in fortified places ought not to be without the office of a pastor. Since therefore the church of Lipari is known to lack a bishop, for that reason let your Fraternity decide that Paulinus, bishop of the church of Taurum, should be in charge of the aforesaid church of Lipari, to show the administration of this office with vigilance in that same church, and not cease to arrange whatever he learns to be suitable for its benefits."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 201.
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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