Letter 4,2 - to Constantius, bishop of Milan. September 593
"And if there has been any mention of the Three Chapters in anything said or written, your Fraternity remembers it well, although Laurence, the predecessor to your Fraternity, sent a very strict pledge to the apostolic see, witnessed by most noble men, in number as prescribed by law. Among them I also added my signature to theirs, as at that time I was acting as urban praetor. This was because, after such a schism had arisen for no reason, it was right that the apostolic see should take care in every way to protect unity in the minds of priests of the universal Church.
But is it being said that our daughter, Queen Theodelinda, after hearing this report, has withdrawn herself from communion with you. It is quite evident that, although she has been seduced to some small degree by the words of wicked men, yet when Hippolitus the notary and Abbot John arrive there, she will be seeking communion with your Fraternity in every way."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 287.
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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