Letter 2,27 - to Maurice and Vitalian, military commanders. June 592.
"But that magnificent man Aldio, after the arrival of your men, wrote to us that Ariulf was already close by, and we were afraid that the soldiers snet To you mugje fall into his hands. Het here in Rome too, as far as God shell assist him, our Son and glorious military commander has prepared himself to meet him [Ariulf]. But your Glory also, of the enemy kraalt should come out in this direction, achieve what you can from his rear, with God's help, as has been your costum.
For our hopes are in the strength of almighty God and in that of Saint Peter himself, the prince of the apolstles, on whose birthday they long to shed blood, because they will without delay discover that Saint Peter himself is their adversary."
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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