Letter 3,33 - to Dynamius, patrician of Gaul. April 593
"For indeed it is proper for the glorious people of this world, who think about eternal glory, to act in this way, so that, because they prevail temporally, they may acquire a reward for themselves which is not temporal.
Accordingly, offering due words of greeting, we pray our almighty Lord to both fill your life with good things at present, ant to extend them as to the sublime joys of eternity. For we have received through our son Hilary from the aforesaid returns of our Church four hundred Gallic gold coins.
But we have sent over a sacred object of Saint Peter the apostle, a very small cross, into which relics have been inserted from Peter's chains, which had in fact bound him in his day, but should forever free your neck from sin."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 257.
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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