Letter 3,2 - to Bishop Paul. September 592
"Although our knowledge of the injury suffered by you has caused us great unhappiness, yet we have some reason for consolation. For we have learnt that your Glory was involved in this affair because of what you endured for the sake of fairness and justice, as a report sent to us had made clear.
Therefore, so that it might be applied to the greater glory of your Fraternity, this matter ought neither to break down your constancy, nor turn you aside from the way of truth. For there is greater reward among priests in standing firm in the path of truth even after injuries."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 236.
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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