Friday 12 August 2011

Gathering Miracles

Letter 3,50 - to Maximian, bishop of Syracuse. July 593

"My brethren, who live with me on friendly terms, compel me in every way to write something about the miracles of the Fathers, which we have heard took place in Italy. For which matter, I earnestly need the solace of your Charity, so that whatever ones you recall to memory, and whatever ones you happen to have discovered, you will briefly describe for me. For I remember you recalling something which I consigned to oblivion, concerning the Abbot, Lord Nonnosus, who was next to the Lord Anastasius from Pentumi."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 268.

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