Quote from Letter 4,32 to Pantaleo, praetorian prefect of Africa. july 594.
It is no light sin, therefore, if those who are condemned by both the integrity of our faith and the strictness of earthly laws, discover the freedom to spread in your times. And so in those parts, as far as we have learnt, the audacity of the Donatists, has so increased that they not only eject priests of the Catholic faith from their own churches, with pernicious authority, but also do not fear to re-baptize those whom the water of rebirth has washed clean with a true confession of faith. And we are quite amazed, it is is actually so, that wicked people of this sort should be allowed to do wrong, with you in charge there.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 312
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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